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California is home to five different subspecies of coyote: Mearns’ coyote (L. mearnsi) San Pedro Martir coyote (L. clepticus) mountain coyote (L. lestes) California Vallye coyote (L. ochropus) peninsula coyote (L. peninsulae).
Coyotes (Canis latrans) are native to California and can be seen in diverse habitats, including rural, residential, and urban areas. They are highly intelligent, social, and adaptive. They generally live in family groups and establish home range territories to hunt and raise their pups.
The coyote (Canis latrans), also known as the American jackal, prairie wolf, or brush wolf, is a species of canine native to North America. It is smaller than its close relative, the gray wolf, and slightly smaller than the closely related eastern wolf and red wolf.
Click the range map to learn more about the distribution of Coyotes in California. Diet: Coyotes are carnivorous -- they eat primarily small mammals, such as eastern cottontail rabbits, thirteen-lined ground squirrels, and white-footed mice.
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Human-wildlife “conflict” (HWC) occurs when humans and wild animals interact in an unwanted or unsafe way. Population growth and a changing climate is increasing the frequency and severity of HWC as wildlife encounter humans more often in their search for food, shelter, and water.
The coyote is a member of the dog family and is native to California. They are one of the three different types of wild canids (dogs) found in North America. The coyote resembles a small German shepherd dog with the exception of the long snout and bushy, black-tipped tail.
Of all the wild canids in California, there are typically more coyotes in urban and suburban environments. They have adapted to surviving, and often thriving, alongside humans in many California communities. They are often confused with domesticated dogs, foxes and gray wolves.
Hundreds of thousands of coyotes roam California — and these “extremely intelligent” predators don’t mind hanging around humans. Coyote sightings in urban areas are common.
Top Speed: 43 mph. Native: Yes. One of natures most adaptable and opportunistic predators/scavengers, coyotes can have a wide variety of prey sources depending on availability: small mammals, rodents, fish, birds, reptiles, invertebrates, plants, berries, and even deer on very rare occasions.