There are pizza rats. There are trash pandas. There are rats with wings. New Yorkers refuse seems to make animals thrive in the city. The city has a small coyote population. It wasugged about it.
The number of coyotes in the city is estimated to be between 20 and 30. The wilderness feels a bit closer because of the idea of a wild animal, not a dog, not a wolf, just big enough to be a little unnerving. What does a coyote eat?
The city coyote has a wild diet despite its surroundings. The researchers reported last month in the journal PeerJ that urban and suburban coyotes eat the same amount of food. coyotes have always eaten small mammals, plants, bugs and anything else they can get their paws on There are coyotes in the city but they are not off our stuff.
The team from Dr. Henger collaborated with the project to find coyote feces. She said that a few of them had trained their dogs. Others took to the various hiking trails in the city on their own. The animals were called the M.V.P.s. They can find it better than we can. I found all the scats to be dogs.
They collected 95 coyote scat samples over the course of 10 years. The majority of them were from green spaces in the Bronx and Queens. The samples from the park were part of the urban set. There are more than 30 samples from parks and nature reserves in three counties. They looked at the DNA in the specimen to see if it was related to plants or animals.
It would be easy to think that an urban coyote would eat takeout like any good New Yorker, with some animals thrown in for good measure. The city's coyotes are not litter puppies, according to Dr. Henger. Human food was found in 64 percent of the coyote's feces. Fifty five percent of the coyote feces did the same. Chicken scraps were popular. Human food made up less than 2% of the diet.
It is easy to find human-associated items in the trash bins and on the ground. I don't think they like the human food. I think they have enough natural food items that they don't want to eat human food
It is possible that chicken is an exception. She thinks coyotes find chicken bones in the parks.
New York's coyotes prefer to eat locallysourced small mammals, plants, insects and salamanders. In the spring, the non urban groups ate venison. Both groups liked the trash pandas. There are a lot of animals in New York.
coyotes living in the city have more species in their diet than their non urban cousins.
Stan Gehrt, a wildlife ecologist at Ohio State University, believes that coyotes are successful in urban areas because of that. A lot of things are available to choose from.
In studies of coyotes in Chicago, Dr. Gehrt found that coyotes rely more on natural foods than on human food.
In a study, only 5 percent of coyotes' feces had rats. Rats aren't available, that's not the reason Dr. Henger thinks rats are the reason for it. coyotes don't want to be near the people
The coyotes are living in the city. She said that they are living with them. The two of us are coexisting.
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