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This year could bring a higher-than-usual number of coyote sightings to the Chicago area, according to local forest preserve experts.
NPR's Audie Cornish talks to Stanley Gehrt of the Cook County Coyote Project about coyotes biting a 5-year-old boy and a man in Chicago. Cook County is home to 4,000 of the animals.
Director Dr. Stan Gehrt examines a sedated coyote. The Cook County Coyote Project is a comprehensive study of coyotes in Chicago metropolitan areas. Also known as the Urban Coyote Research Program, the study was initiated in 2000 as a non-biased attempt to address shortcomings in urban coyote ecology information and management; the Coyote ...
Humans are the dominant species on the planet – and sometimes, that puts a strain on other animals. But the way coyotes have adapted to urban living is givin...
Coyotes inhabit virtually every available territory in Cook County, so most of us have a coyote neighbor—even if we haven’t seen it yet. Learn more about how we can live with and appreciate this wild creature in Cook County.
Late winter is coyote mating season, which reaches its peak toward the end of February. That's leading to more sightings than usual by humans — even in downtown Chicago — as the animals are a bit bolder and on the move in their search for a soulmate.
Chicago is the third-largest city in the U.S., and one of the country’s most diverse. There’s a secret subculture here that’s growing larger by the year but ...
Yes, Chicago has coyotes. No, they won’t hurt you. Stanley Gehrt is a Chicago-based researcher and author who focuses his studies on urban coyotes. His new book “Coyotes Among Us: Secrets...
"With some recent and well publicized downtown sightings, we know coyotes are in the Chicago area. But you may not know that Cook County, Illinois is the home of the largest study ever done on urban coyotes.
CHRIS ANCHOR: Yeah, so coyotes and white-tailed deer, giant Canada geese, beavers all disappeared in the Chicagoland area about 100 years ago, for the most part. And every one of those species returned to the greater Chicagoland area, the southern Great Lakes Basin during the late ’70s, early ’80s.