Their prey in los Anglees includes rats, cats and small dogs...and I've seen them wandering the streets of Westwood in the late 1970s in the early morning hours. I remeber house-sitting for my parents one weekend while thye were in Hawaii, I was working on my car late into the evening in the driveway. Took my head out from under the hood and was staring right into the eyes of of a coyote. I tossed a screw driver at him and he left (if you are wondering I had a lot of other tools to toss at him readily available).
I've seen them here in the marshes of Louisiana as well, but they never look real happy...
Mark Delaney
Allan Fish <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Exactly to how many states they've expanded to in the US I'm not certain, because I haen't checked the past few years. But they are extremely adaptable.
Distribution: Widely distributed throughout all of the United States and all of southern and south-central Canada, south through Mexico into northern Central America. Northward expansion of coyotes may be the result of wolf removal, as their range is expanding in areas where wolves have been eliminated for more than a century.
Habitat: Wherever suitable prey exists, from tundra to grassland to forest to city (e.g. large populations found in Los Angeles, California). Established coyotes exclude fox, but are excluded by established wolves (Berg, pers. comm.).
Population and Status: Large and increasing despite control efforts and unprotected status in most areas. No threat to the species as a whole.Source: http://www.canids.org/SPPACCTS/coyote.htm#Distribution--Allan Fish
Greenwood, IN
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