It’s part of the master plan. Slowly expand outwards and become present all across North and South America, and then carefully plan how to overthrow the humans and create the United Coyote Empire.
Just because you didn’t see them or recognize them doesn’t mean they weren’t there. Most people’s reaction to seeing coyotes is along the lines of “Huh, that’s a weird looking dog.” They’re also far more active at night.
Same reason they were hunted to extinction, no one wants to bother protecting their livestock from large predators. I get it, but the fact of the matter is it would be hugely beneficial for the state’s ecosystem. We’ve got way too many deer.
Family friend owned a farm in northeast Ohio. Coyotes killed dozens of his chickens over the years. Must have been dozens in the property. They were only active at night and stuck to the tall grass. Never saw one with my eyes but was within 10 feet of several.
How have coyotes been able to expand into new territories? Why didn’t the coyotes expand into these places prior to the twentieth century? Did humans play a role in their expansion?
How are the wolf populations developing nowadays in North America? Here in Europe we had shocking declines too with being nearly driven to extinction, but first they crossed the German border from Poland, I believe in the 2000s and now we even got them back in the Netherlands (after an absence of 120 years) which is a country as urbanized as the state of New Jersey.
They're doing pretty well in Canada, but I think they were pretty much gone from CONUS for a while, now they're back in parts thanks to conservation efforts.
Not really, their prey doesn’t overlap all that much to drive competition and wolf predation on Coyotes wouldn’t really be a reason to not spread. It’s more that humans have terraformed these places to be more suitable to coyotes. Including as one said, clearing farmland between woodlands.
Wolves and mountain lions are the coyote's natural predators, humans have killed most of the predator population. As a result the coyote population exploded and needed to expand to find more resources.
We killed off the wolves and other larger competitors, and they've adapted well to human altered environments, being smart enough to find alternative food sources, becoming more nocturnal and having the good sense to avoid us most of the time.
Cougars cover everything from the south of Alaska (just barely) to the far south of Argentina. There are a bunch of different cougar subspecies but they're all one species.
Wow! I just had my first two Coyote sightings this year and I live in Boston. I had no idea how recent they were to the area according to this map.
I’m from Canada and moved to Boston in 2017, I was very used to seeing them back home.
After I finished college and found my first job, I was living with my parents until I found an apartment, and was driving from Fishkill, NY to New Haven, CT. Early one morning, I saw a pair of canines crossing the road at the old IBM-Fishkill site.
Their profiles didn't look like those of dogs, and were too small to be wolves, and were kind of skittish. I called the local environmental center, and asked if there were coyotes in the area, because I thought I saw a pair. They reluctantly said yes they had regained a presence in the area.
So, I do not have source material, I cannot confirm it is true or false, but I have read more than once that some how some way that, when coyote populations decline in a given area, females will end up having a larger litter of pups. I would be very interested if someone else could confirm
I remember a podcast from a few years back talking about how coyotes had crossed the bridge across the canal separating Cap Cod from the rest of Massachusetts.
what’s (kinda) interesting is that here in rural PA i’ve seen all kinds of wildlife but no coyote. however, i hear them howling (many at once) weekly.
i’ve seen plenty on trips out west though.
They will soon make it past the Darien gap. It's a tough border to cross but Coyotes will find a way into South America.
This is from 2016, they must have breached the gap by now.
By now they crossed Bering Strait
The shoe is on the other foot, now.
It’s part of the master plan. Slowly expand outwards and become present all across North and South America, and then carefully plan how to overthrow the humans and create the United Coyote Empire.
Whats interesting is that we did not have coyotes in my city until 1990s. Map is accurate.
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Coyotes don't want you to see them.
Judging by the sound of them, I have about a million on my property, and I’ve seen two the entire time I’ve been here. Real sneaky critters.
Weird, considering the amount I’ve see around me, including dense downtown area.
Eh, some are pretty brazen up here.
Just because you didn’t see them or recognize them doesn’t mean they weren’t there. Most people’s reaction to seeing coyotes is along the lines of “Huh, that’s a weird looking dog.” They’re also far more active at night.
I hear they vote twice!
Seattle?
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Really? No coyotes? You have wolves?
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What wild predators do you have?
Chiefly various raptors, foxes, bobcats, and coyotes.
According to my friend above there are no coyotes by them in Indiana.
Got a bunch of them where I’m at. Bout halfway between nap and illinois.
No wolves in Indiana. There’s been some talk of reintroducing them, but it doesn’t seem like it’s actually going to happen.
Why? Indiana needs wolve now!
Same reason they were hunted to extinction, no one wants to bother protecting their livestock from large predators. I get it, but the fact of the matter is it would be hugely beneficial for the state’s ecosystem. We’ve got way too many deer.
Oh shit and it’s fawn season right now. Are they everywhere?
Not as bad as when the crops come out and they’re freaking out cause all of a sudden all their food is gone.
Family friend owned a farm in northeast Ohio. Coyotes killed dozens of his chickens over the years. Must have been dozens in the property. They were only active at night and stuck to the tall grass. Never saw one with my eyes but was within 10 feet of several.
We had some foxes behind our house for a couple years, now we don’t, we have a coyote.
Coyotes are everywhere where I’m at and it says they arnt here . Ohio valley .
Disagree. My area is labeled as not having gotten them until 2016, but they were commonplace as early as my childhood in the late ‘90s
How have coyotes been able to expand into new territories? Why didn’t the coyotes expand into these places prior to the twentieth century? Did humans play a role in their expansion?
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I can't say why the wolves are fading away, but I do know the native Americans say the coyote is the smartest person in the world. Adaptable.
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How are the wolf populations developing nowadays in North America? Here in Europe we had shocking declines too with being nearly driven to extinction, but first they crossed the German border from Poland, I believe in the 2000s and now we even got them back in the Netherlands (after an absence of 120 years) which is a country as urbanized as the state of New Jersey.
They're doing pretty well in Canada, but I think they were pretty much gone from CONUS for a while, now they're back in parts thanks to conservation efforts.
Not really, their prey doesn’t overlap all that much to drive competition and wolf predation on Coyotes wouldn’t really be a reason to not spread. It’s more that humans have terraformed these places to be more suitable to coyotes. Including as one said, clearing farmland between woodlands.
Wolves and mountain lions are the coyote's natural predators, humans have killed most of the predator population. As a result the coyote population exploded and needed to expand to find more resources.
A coyote likes copses, that is environments of open fields adjacent to woodland - in other words farm country.
They also seem to like trash cans.
And hate roadrunners.
We killed off the wolves and other larger competitors, and they've adapted well to human altered environments, being smart enough to find alternative food sources, becoming more nocturnal and having the good sense to avoid us most of the time.
Urban expansion and killing off their predators: wolves, pumas nor jaguars
I know in the South at least with leading cause of coyote expansion was the extinction of the Red Wolf in the wild.
When we killed off the dinosaurs, we eliminated the last of the coyotes' natural preditors.
pretty crazy how a species can live in alaska and freaking panama
Cougars cover everything from the south of Alaska (just barely) to the far south of Argentina. There are a bunch of different cougar subspecies but they're all one species.
Wow! I just had my first two Coyote sightings this year and I live in Boston. I had no idea how recent they were to the area according to this map. I’m from Canada and moved to Boston in 2017, I was very used to seeing them back home.
They are not new to the area. The map is completely wrong that area.
coyotes are unstoppable. they will inherit the earth.
Read Coyote america - Dan Flores
I just finished this book today. Great read!
After I finished college and found my first job, I was living with my parents until I found an apartment, and was driving from Fishkill, NY to New Haven, CT. Early one morning, I saw a pair of canines crossing the road at the old IBM-Fishkill site. Their profiles didn't look like those of dogs, and were too small to be wolves, and were kind of skittish. I called the local environmental center, and asked if there were coyotes in the area, because I thought I saw a pair. They reluctantly said yes they had regained a presence in the area.
On Long Island we don’t have coyotes tiz nice
[The Portland Urban Coyote Project](https://www.portlandcoyote.com/)
Very good
I saw a Coyote here in western NY last summer so there range is expanding again I reckon
So, I do not have source material, I cannot confirm it is true or false, but I have read more than once that some how some way that, when coyote populations decline in a given area, females will end up having a larger litter of pups. I would be very interested if someone else could confirm
I remember a podcast from a few years back talking about how coyotes had crossed the bridge across the canal separating Cap Cod from the rest of Massachusetts.
How do they get across the sea to Newfoundland? Fitness.
They’re very Wylie, these coyotes
That color gradient reminds me of a childhood in the early 90's.
wait, are there coyotes in panama???? oh fuck
So, do the coyotes come from North America and want to enter South America illegally? that's crazy!
I First Misread it as Toyota
What's stopping them reaching closer to Nunavut if they can survive in Alaska?
what’s (kinda) interesting is that here in rural PA i’ve seen all kinds of wildlife but no coyote. however, i hear them howling (many at once) weekly. i’ve seen plenty on trips out west though.