Thank you and please continue to submit sightings to our project
Hi everyone,
We would like to thank all of you for submitting your sightings to our project. We plan to use the information you are providing us in combination with radio tracking data and diet data to gain a better understanding the role coyotes are playing the in urban environments and identify additional ways to help reduce conflict. So please continue to send in reports when you see coyotes.
Thanks,
LA coyote project
Comments
https://www.nps.gov/samo/learn/news/new-study-says-urban-coyotes-eat-garbage-ornamental-fruit-and-domestic-cats.htm
"Using two different techniques, scat analysis and stable isotope analysis, the study found that human food resources including garbage, ornamental fruits, and domestic cats accounted for between 60 to 75 percent of urban coyote diets. Cat remains were found in 20 percent of urban coyote scat as compared to four percent of suburban coyote scat. Urban coyotes still eat small animals like rabbits and rodents, but they are the ultimate opportunists. They tend to eat a lot of garbage, ornamental fruits like ficus, loquat, grapes and palm tree fruit and domestic cats. (...) Researchers analyzed and dissected scat and collected whiskers from coyotes that were recovered from vehicle collisions or captured as part of the broader coyote study. Volunteers collected more than 3,100 scat samples and then dissected them during “scat parties.”"
Add a Comment