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Coyotes Eat Everything from Fruits to Cats

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Scientific American

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4.2639 Ratings

🗓️ 30 March 2020

⏱️ 4 minutes

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The diets of coyotes vary widely, depending on whether they live in rural, suburban or urban environments—but pretty much anything is fair game. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:37.5

I'm Jason Goldman.

0:41.1

Coyotes can do really well in some cities.

0:44.6

Los Angeles has always had coyotes, while the predators are relative newcomers to places like Chicago and New York.

0:51.9

But how much do coyotes rely on human activity for food?

0:56.3

Los Angeles is this really interesting, unique city in that coyotes occur literally

1:01.7

across the gradient. They're everywhere from downtown Los Angeles at the stadium where the

1:08.2

Dodgers play and all the way out through into the Santa Monica Mountains

1:12.4

and some of the more rural rugged landscapes.

1:14.8

Biologist Rachel Larson,

1:16.5

who led a newly published study on coyotes in the L.A. area.

1:20.9

Now at the University of Iowa,

1:22.9

she did this work as a graduate student

1:24.8

at California State University in Northridge. She and her team

1:29.2

used two different methods to figure out what coyotes were eating. First, they worked with

1:34.6

citizens scientists to collect and analyze evidence the animals left behind.

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