For more than 20 years, Chris Anchor has been studying urban coyotes in the Chicago area. Coyote sightings in Chicago were rare in the 1940s and ‘50s, today they’ve become commonplace.
Twenty-three years ago, Chris Anchor took a group of coyotes that had been captured in Chicago and Aurora and dropped them off in rural areas, thinking he was returning the wild animals to their natural homes.But the coyotes, which were outfitted with tracking devices, all wound up returning to the cities. That’s when it clicked with Anchor, a senior wildlife biologist with the Forest Preserve District of Cook County. These coyotes weren’t lost — they were urban coyotes, living in the city.
The survival rate for pups is nearly five times greater in urban environments than rural, said Anchor. But they’re not just surviving, they’re thriving. The density of the coyote population increases the closer one gets to cities, where the animals are less likely to be hunted or trapped. He’s seen too many coyotes with rotten teeth, the decay caused by human food. Feeding coyotes also habituates them to humans and provides opportunities for interactions that could turn sour, he said.
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