A note from Marjorie, Team 2:

I have been reading the book I bought at the Pacific Grove Museum of Natural History (I am a voracious reader which is one of the reasons why I love being an anthropologist) and found a passage that may be of interest:

"The environment of the Bay area has changed drastically in the last 200 years. Some of the birds and animals are no longer to be found here, and many others have vastly diminished in number. Even those that have survived have (surprisingly enough) altered their habits and characters. The animals of today do not behave the same way they did two centuries ago; for when the Europeans first arrived they found, much to their amazement, that the animals of the Bay Area were relatively unafraid of people. Foxes...Sea otters, which now spend almost their entire lives in the water, were then readily captured on land"

Further:
"Within a few generations some birds and animals had become totally exterminated, while others survived by greatly increasing the distance between themselves and people. Today we are the heirs of that distance, and we take it entirely
for granted that animals are naturally secretive and afraid of our presence. But for the Indians who lived here before us this was simply not the case. Animals and humans inhabited the very same world, and the distance between them was not very great."

Margolin, Malcolm (1978) The Ohlone Way: Indian life in the San
Francisco-Monterey Bay Area; Heyday Books:Berkeley.