00:00How Coyotes Conquered America, From Deserts to City Streets
00:06Coyotes are no longer animals. Americans encounter only in remote deserts and open ranch country.
00:12These adaptable predators now live across nearly every type of landscape in the United States,
00:19including forests, mountains, farmlands, suburbs, and major cities.
00:23California provides a clear example, with coyotes thriving from wilderness areas to neighborhoods around Los Angeles.
00:31Texas offers enormous stretches of ranch land and open habitat,
00:36while Arizona coyotes move between desert country and cities such as Phoenix and Tucson.
00:42Colorado's mountains and urban parks also support them.
00:46In Illinois, coyotes are well established around the Chicago metropolitan area
00:51using parks, greenways, and other patches of habitat surrounded by development.
00:55Florida is another remarkable case.
00:59Coyotes reached the state relatively recently, but have now spread across the peninsula,
01:04even appearing near coastal areas.
01:06New York coyotes have been recorded inside New York City, including its green spaces.
01:12Nevada, Michigan, Oregon, Pennsylvania, Wisconsin, and Montana
01:16also provide combinations of open land, forests, farms, and urban edges where coyotes can survive.
01:24Their secret is flexibility.
01:27Coyotes eat rodents, rabbits, insects, fruit, carrion, and many other available foods.
01:33They can travel long distances, adjust their activity around people,
01:37and exploit habitats altered by humans.
01:40That adaptability helped coyotes expand far beyond their historical western range.
01:46Few American predators have learned to live beside people quite as successfully.
01:52Whether in desert scrub or suburban streets, coyotes keep finding a way to stay.
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