--- title: Big wild animals in cities: wild boar, deer, coyotes, monkeys and leopards — a lesson of Mova's school · trees and pragmatics description: «Big wild animals in cities: wild boar, deer, coyotes, monkeys and leopards», a lesson of the biology course of Mova's primary school, sentence by sentence with dependency trees and pragmatics. It begins: Cities are not only for people: wild boar dig up parks in Berlin, deer bow to tourists in Japan --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/368-big-wild-animals-in-cities-wild-boar-deer-coyotes-monkeys-and-leopards/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/) / [Biology](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/) / Big wild animals in cities: wild boar,… # Big wild animals in cities: wild boar, deer, coyotes, monkeys and leopards Lesson 368 of the biology course of Mova's primary school: 17 sentences, each with its syntax tree and pragmatics. The lessons are written for Mova, and their agreed trees are part of Mova corpus 0.4 (CC BY-SA 4.0). How Mova does on its tests: [the lesson at school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/school-run/biology/368-big-wild-animals-in-cities-wild-boar-deer-coyotes-monkeys-and-leopards/). - [0](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/368-big-wild-animals-in-cities-wild-boar-deer-coyotes-monkeys-and-leopards/0/) — Cities are not only for people: wild boar dig up parks in Berlin, deer bow to tourists in Japan, coyotes cross roads in Chicago and leopards hunt at night inside Mumbai. - [1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/368-big-wild-animals-in-cities-wild-boar-deer-coyotes-monkeys-and-leopards/1/) — For an animal, a city is a giant larder with warm corners: overflowing bins, fruit trees, bird feeders, and hardly any hunters. - [2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/368-big-wild-animals-in-cities-wild-boar-deer-coyotes-monkeys-and-leopards/2/) — Picture a bin tipped over in the morning with rubbish all over the pavement: a fox, a boar or a bear came for an easy meal, and it will come back. - [3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/368-big-wild-animals-in-cities-wild-boar-deer-coyotes-monkeys-and-leopards/3/) — Living side by side works when people follow simple rules: do not feed wild animals, keep bins shut, give mothers with babies lots of room, never stare at monkeys, and walk calmly away. - [4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/368-big-wild-animals-in-cities-wild-boar-deer-coyotes-monkeys-and-leopards/4/) — Thousands of wild boar live in and around Berlin, digging up parks, gardens and graveyards for roots and grubs, because cities give them food and no hunters. - [5](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/368-big-wild-animals-in-cities-wild-boar-deer-coyotes-monkeys-and-leopards/5/) — In 2020 a boar ran off with a man's bag and laptop at a Berlin lake, and he chased it across the beach. - [6](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/368-big-wild-animals-in-cities-wild-boar-deer-coyotes-monkeys-and-leopards/6/) — A mother boar usually has about 4 to 6 striped piglets whose stripes hide them in the forest and fade after a few months, and she can charge if she thinks they are in danger. - [7](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/368-big-wild-animals-in-cities-wild-boar-deer-coyotes-monkeys-and-leopards/7/) — About 1,200 sika deer roam freely in Nara, Japan, as protected sacred animals; many have learned to bob their heads for special crackers, and they sometimes butt people who tease them. - [8](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/368-big-wild-animals-in-cities-wild-boar-deer-coyotes-monkeys-and-leopards/8/) — Richmond Park in London has about 600 red and fallow deer; in autumn the stags roar and fight, and keepers ask people to stay at least 50 metres away and keep dogs on leads. - [9](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/368-big-wild-animals-in-cities-wild-boar-deer-coyotes-monkeys-and-leopards/9/) — Stags grow new antlers every year, so the number of points can change from year to year. - [10](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/368-big-wild-animals-in-cities-wild-boar-deer-coyotes-monkeys-and-leopards/10/) — A few thousand coyotes are thought to live in and around Chicago; they eat mice, rabbits, fruit and rubbish, are mostly out at night, and some wait for gaps in traffic before crossing roads. - [11](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/368-big-wild-animals-in-cities-wild-boar-deer-coyotes-monkeys-and-leopards/11/) — In Lopburi, Thailand, thousands of macaque monkeys live around old temples and streets, there is a yearly monkey buffet festival, and the monkeys grab bags, phones and glasses. - [12](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/368-big-wild-animals-in-cities-wild-boar-deer-coyotes-monkeys-and-leopards/12/) — In many monkeys a long stare or showing your teeth is a threat, not a smile, so the safe rule is no staring, no feeding, no touching, and walk calmly away; a monkey bite needs a doctor. - [13](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/368-big-wild-animals-in-cities-wild-boar-deer-coyotes-monkeys-and-leopards/13/) — Sanjay Gandhi National Park inside Mumbai has around 50 leopards that hunt stray dogs and rats at night; keeping rubbish clean, lights on and children indoors after dark made attacks fall. - [14](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/368-big-wild-animals-in-cities-wild-boar-deer-coyotes-monkeys-and-leopards/14/) — In parts of North America and Romania bears come into towns for bins, fruit trees and bird feeders, and bear-proof bins with clever locks keep them out. - [15](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/368-big-wild-animals-in-cities-wild-boar-deer-coyotes-monkeys-and-leopards/15/) — A bear used to human food can lose its fear of people, which is dangerous for both, so people say a fed bear is a dead bear. - [16](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/368-big-wild-animals-in-cities-wild-boar-deer-coyotes-monkeys-and-leopards/16/) — Animals that learn fast and eat almost anything do best in cities, and scientists have found many city animals are bolder than their country cousins. - ← previous: [Animal colours: pink flamingos, rare blue animals, white albinos and black panthers](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/367-animal-colours-pink-flamingos-rare-blue-animals-white-albinos-and-black-panthers/) - next →: [City birds: sparrows, starlings, swifts, crows and peregrines on tall buildings](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/369-city-birds-sparrows-starlings-swifts-crows-and-peregrines-on-tall-buildings/) - ↑ back to [Biology](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/)