Eastern Coyotes: Coming to Your Neighborhood

If you live anywhere in the eastern United States, whether in a city, suburbs or rural area, chances are there is a coyote family living near you. These are not the mythical "coy dogs," a cross between western coyotes and dogs, you may have heard about, they're a brand new species. The eastern coyote (Canis latrans) is a mixture of wolf, western coyote, dog, and eastern wolf. They were first noticed in the 1930's and 1940's in the Great Lakes Region and then spread rapidly to cover [...]