Dear Song Dog
My species likes to know things and so we examine your species and we learnt that you do better living closer to humans than you do in the farmlands.
Like a mother black bear brings her cubs into suburban areas as a safe haven from the aggressive male bears in the woods, your species finds protection in suburban spaces where you aren’t shot at or losing your territory come harvest time.
Human-centric spaces are the lesser threat, even though to us it would seem like the opposite should be true.