Coexisting with California’s Urban Coyotes

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4.6 • 656 Ratings

🗓️ 22 October 2024

⏱️ 56 minutes

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Summary

Native to California, coyotes are common in urban green spaces up and down the state. Once eradicated from San Francisco, they’ve made a comeback in the city, with sightings on the rise and reports of pet attacks, including an incident involving a 5-year-old child. We’ll talk about best practices to keep you and your pets safe and learn about the essential role coyotes play in California’s ecosystem. Have you had a recent encounter with a coyote? Guests: Tali Caspi, urban ecologist, PhD Candidate at UC Davis Christopher J Schell, Assistant Professor, Department of Environmental Science, Policy and Management at UC Berkeley Christine Wilkinson, conservation scientist, carnivore ecologist, research associate at California Academy of Sciences - manages www.bayareacoyote. org Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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1:06.1	Coming up on forum, coyotes.
1:08.4	Have you seen one recently?
1:09.7	Or maybe heard them yip and howl?
1:15.6	Reports of coyote encounters in California are growing, not in parks or wildlands, but in dense cities like Los Angeles and San Francisco. That's meant more headlines about dogs being attacked
1:28.9	and even a child being bitten.
1:31.0	And more questions like, are coyotes becoming bolder?
1:33.9	And what can we do to keep us and them safe?
1:36.8	A panel of coyote experts joins us to take your questions after this news.
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