Before moving over to LAist Studios, I was the environmental reporter for our newsroom.
Two coyotes, one of them a nursing mother walking with a limp, walk on grass at the edge of scorched earth in Griffith Park in Los Angeles.If you're enjoying this article, you'll love our daily morning newsletter, How To LA. Every weekday, you'll get fresh, community-driven stories that catch you up with our independent local news.report about the dog in Van Nuys that was attacked by three coyotesExperts say it can be common to see more of them around this time of year.
Many Native Americans consider the coyote a sacred animal because their ancestors have interacted with them regularly for at least 20,000 of those years. But European settlers saw coyotes very differently. Initially, they weren’t sure what to make of them, because coyotes don’t exist in Europe. They soon lumped them in with wolves, which settlers considered their enemies because they preyed on sheep and cattle. But coyotes behaved very differently than wolves, in ways Europeans found bizarre. Coyotes would come into villages and settlements in the Americas to feed on the mice and rats that, in turn, fed on human garbage. They lived among people.
So with way fewer coyotes being killed, the rural population began to rise. Young coyotes began looking for less crowded places to live, like cities. Soon, they were showing up inin Los Angeles. Many people fed them, which caused coyotes to lose their fear of people and associate people with food.has researched coyotes in Chicago for 25 years. He did a study where he put out what he calls “novel objects” — things coyotes had never seen before – and watched how they interacted with them.
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