Articles for tag: Animal Adaptation, City Ecology, coyote research, environmental adaptation, human-wildlife coexistence, Illinois wildlife, Midwest wildlife, urban coyotes, urban ecosystems, wildlife behavior

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Illinois Coyotes Adapt to Cities

Andrew Alpin

The urban landscape of Illinois has become an unlikely home to one of North America’s most able predators. When most people picture wildlife in major metropolitan areas, they think of pigeons, squirrels, or maybe the occasional raccoon. But something fascinating has been unfolding right under our noses in places like Chicago – thousands of coyotes ...

7 Cities Where Urban Coyotes Learned New Tricks to Survive

Suhail Ahmed

Slip through any North American city at dusk and you may glimpse a shape that doesn’t quite match the skyline – urban coyotes, newly minted masters of the metropolitan maze. Scientists have spent the past two decades mapping how these canids turned concrete into habitat, retooling their diet, their schedules, and even their social lives ...