Marin County neighborhood coexists with coyotes
A family of eight coyotes has taken up residence in the hills, where homeowners and their pets are now on alert, but the 62-year-old Larkspur planning commissioner is thrilled to see wildlife so close to home.
Why coyotes and badgers hunt together
Competition and cooperation aren’t mutually exclusive. Just ask a coyote or a badger. Both are crafty carnivores, and since they often hunt the same prey in the same prairies, it would make sense for them to be enemies, or at least to avoid each other.
Why Are 180 People in L.A. Scouring the City for Coyote Poop?
In Los Angeles, coyotes walk the streets of densely-populated neighborhoods. You might wonder, what do these urban canines eat to survive? Biologists have been wondering the same thing. So they’ve recruited volunteers to help them gather coyote droppings.
Some want the death penalty for the mountain lion P-45. Others say ‘respect where you live’
Days after a mountain lion known as P-45 is believed to have killed 10 alpacas at a ranch in the Malibu hills, a team of wildlife advocates Wednesday installed a battery of powerful LED lamps to keep the big cat out of the crosshairs of a hunter with a state permit to...