The Urban Coyote

The fear of coyotes predates social media. The thousand-year history of coyotes in urban areas tells a story of adaptation, predation by humans and co-existence. Coyotes have been living near humans for at least 1,000 years, with rodents being the mutual denominator for both parties. It’s a simple food chain where human trash has a tendency to to attracts rodents, and the rodents attract coyotes. Coyotes, like us, are opportunists and omnivores but they do not survive off a diet of the occasional pet. Humans moved to cities 5,000 years ago to get away from nature but there’s no getting rid of coyotes. Coyotes have amazing adaptability, called fission/fusion, the capacity of a species to either fuse together in groups or fission off as individuals — whatever it takes to survive an environmental challenge. Every year there is a spike in coyote encounters because dogs get too close to the active den site during the spring-summer months. The coyote only wants a safe place to raise young, find enough food, and be mostly left alone.

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