We are every part of nature as everything else.
All animals use nature for their own benefit. Birds make nests. Foxes dig holes. Beavers make dams. Bees make hives.
——Foxes dig holes——
I’ll take that as the entry point to mention adaptation.
My kids live in a wooded enclave subdivision of say 50 homes in the middle of a busy city. A power transmission line provides a corridor into it from distant forrested areas. That very narrow corridor has allowed wildlife to enter the area.
Somehow a red fox I named Sadie made her way into the area and dug her den hole under the small outbuilding for the lawn mowers and stuff. She is a beatiful animal and when they come out in the yard to play the kits are amazingly adapted to their home. Their home happens to be in an ordinary grass yard surrounded by woods pretty much in the middle of a city.
There are also frequent, infact daily, visits from the deer that have made this urban enclave home.
The funny part is the battle of the mothers. Sadie digs an unobtrusive hole under the back of the shed adjacent to the woods. Daughter in law, fearful of her cub being endangered by the presence of the fox. shovels dirt back in the hole. Both are determined, but in the end it is a stand off.
The simple fact is, all over America, wild life of several very adaptive species have returned to areas from which they left fearing humans.
The species known are the red fox and white tailed deer noted here as well as opossums, skunks, Raccoons Gray squirrels, chipmunks, canada geese and wild turkeys. Some might add coyotes.