Urban Coyotes
Food Chain Radio Show #1175
Michael Olson, Author & Urban Farming Agriculturalist
Urban Coyotes – Moving into Town!
Guest: Camilla Fox, Founder and Director
In nature, coyotes are too small to go head to head with big predators like bears, lions and wolves, and so must become very smart and adaptable to survive.
Michael Olson Food Chain Radio – Coyotes Moving into Town! How many urban coyotes should people allow into the city?
And people who cadge a living off the land have devised many ways to get rid of coyotes, which has forced the critters to become ever more smart and adaptable.
At some time along the line, coyotes got really smart and moved into town, where people do not see them as predators, but rather as a friendly wild life every bit as deserving of what the city has to offer as people.
And so, given their smartness and adaptability, coyotes are now thriving in the city. In fact, their survival rates are said to exceed 70 percent in some municipalities.
Given that survival rate, it does not take long for the singing predators to eat their way through a neighborhood’s supply of bunnies, mice and rats. Once nature’s bounties have been consumed, coyotes must then turn to what people have to offer, which is their garbage… and their pets.
Now, people are not likely to get ruffled about a coyote eating a discarded ham sandwich, but, when it comes to coyotes eating little Fluffy, or Fido, that is another story. And all those missing Fluffies and Fidos lead us to ask…
Leave a comment below: How many wild coyotes should people allow in their cities?
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