They’ve increased their habitat across North America by 40 percent since the 1950s- twice the rate of any other North American carnivore-and now live in every U.S. Native to the western two-thirds of the United States, coyotes began dramatically expanding their range in the early 1900s. The only place we don’t have them is airports, and that’s because they kill them.” “Now we have coyotes everywhere-every neighborhood, every suburban city, and downtown. “They push the boundaries of what we perceive to be constraints,” Gehrt says.įor instance, at the beginning of his research, he thought coyotes would be restricted to parks and green spaces. Gehrt has studied Chicago’s coyotes since 2000, not long after the animals surfaced in the nation’s third biggest city. “We consistently underestimate this animal and its ability to adjust and adapt,” says Stan Gehrt, a wildlife ecologist with Ohio State University and the Max McGraw Wildlife Foundation. And in the indefatigable coyote spirit-that same quality that has propelled the predator into every corner of the United States-this lanky single mother is making it work without her partner. Even so, it’s rare to see urban coyotes during the day, as most have learned to be active at night to avoid people. Now Lauren Ross, a field technician with the Max MacGraw Wildlife Foundation, has pinpointed the radio-collared female’s location with a telemetry unit, the constant ping revealing her exact location. The beep beep beep of a cement paver and the deafening roar of buzzsaws are just background noise to 1242.Ī few weeks ago her mate for life, 1244, was shot near this new high school going up outside Chicago. ChicagoShe pops up suddenly from behind a green tarp and trots through the construction site, pausing every so often to swivel her large, triangular ears.
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