In cities across America, it's becoming increasingly common to see coyotes in parks, golf courses, or other green spaces.

While residents don't universally welcome them, for the most part, people in coyotes coexist peacefully.

Earlier this year, the New York Times documented the return of coyotes to San Francisco after a long absence.

Reporter and photographer Lauren Elliott worked on that story, and Christopher Schell is an

urban ecologist at the University of California, Berkeley.

Lauren, there are so many captivating images you've got for this story.

I think one in particular of a coyote staring into the lens of the camera.

How did we able to do that? How did you get so close?

I was able to make that photograph using a remote camera. So a lot of folks have asked me,

you know, how could I get so close to that coyote? And the answer is that I physically wasn't

that close. And it would be unethical to be that close to a coyote. What I did is I took a camera with a radio transmitter,

and I set that camera down, concealed it, it had no sound, there's no clicking of a shutter,

there's no flash so that it would be minimally invasive. And then I waited for a long period

of time from a distance, about 100 yards away with a remote trigger in my hand. And when

that coyote walked up to

inspect that camera out of curiosity, I was able to trigger the camera from a distance and make that

image. There's also a photo of some pups, a coyote playing with pups. I understand there's an

interesting backstory to that. Yeah, that photograph was also made with a remote camera. When

coyotes are raising their young at a den, that photograph was also made with a remote camera. When coyotes are raising their

young at a den, that's a very sensitive situation. And so I set up a remote camera under the

supervision of a wildlife biologist and then was able to basically conceal myself in the nearby

forest at a pretty far distance so that I wasn't in any way

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