Coyote: Coyotes are opportunistic feeders and have a more varied diet. While they do hunt small mammals such as rodents, hares, and birds, they are also known to eat fruits, carrion, and human refuse.

The rest of the coyote diet breakdown included a 23.6% occurrence of birds, primarily pigeons and ducks, a 22.8% occurrence of medium-sized mammals such as raccoons and skunks, and less than a 1% ...

We examined the diet of coyotes inhabiting areas of differential development by humans and assessed prevalence of anthropogenic feeding, to detect a possible shift in dietary trends by collecting and ...

The bulk of a coyote’s diet really depends on where they are and what’s available. If several of them can catch a weak deer struggling through deep snow, they’ll chow down.

Caspi’s research has found that cats are not a common part of the coyote diet. Out of around 700 scats, she identified cat DNA in less than 5%.

As their traditional dining options dwindle and natural areas give way to restaurants, homes and sidewalks, the coyotes of San Francisco are shifting what they eat. Scientists from the University of ...

With few natural landscapes available in the country’s second-most-dense urban environment, San Francisco’s coyotes are shifting their diets — and doing so in different ways depending on ...

A group of coyotes had crossed Old Mill Grove Road. ... studies have found that diet also includes cats during the coyote mating and whelping season, which lasts until May.

Coyotes may be living in the city, but they are living alongside us, not off our stuff. Dr. Henger’s team collaborated with the Gotham Coyote Project to track down coyote feces across the five ...

Their natural diet consists mainly of rabbits, rodents, and carrion. Coyotes are very wary of humans; however, they can become accustomed to humans especially if they are fed.