From K-QED.

Is that a wolf? A German Shepherd? No friends, it's a coyote, or a coyote where I'm from.

If you've seen one around the Bay Area, it's probably been a quick glimpse, a

Sveld pup with tan fur slinking across the trail ahead and then disappearing into the woods.

Coyotes seem to stick around just long enough for you to register that they're there,

but before you can make up your mind whether you're seeing a dog or something more wild.

I grew up in Marin County and there were definitely coyotes.

We'd see them kind of running around on golf courses or running down the street.

This is Lauren Fleming.

She lives in San Francisco now and spends a lot of time enjoying the city's parks.

I feel like there's always a sign up in the park that warns about coyotes being spotted in the area.

In Native American folklore, the coyote is sometimes styled as a sacred character, divine.

One legend from the California Valley Meewalk has coyote creating Earth and then man.

In pop culture, coyotes occupy a less powerful place.

The inept Wiley

always foiled by the clever roadrunner.

But who are coyotes really? And as Lauren wants to know, how did they get to San Francisco?

You know, living in the, not necessarily the redwood forest, but the concrete jungle.

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