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Coyote incentive programs help ease predation impacts

Could this heart-breaking loss have been avoided?

7-12 Coyotes together during day(May 23rd)

From http://www.csrees.usda.gov/nea/nre/pdfs/fish_timm.pdf

From our most recent data set of coyote incidents from 1977 through 2004, our analysis determined the following trends:

• 74% of coyote attack incidents occurred in the last decade (1995 through 2004)
• Injury to one or more persons occurred in 78 of 165 attack incidents
• 51% of the persons sustaining injury were adults or teenagers
• 23% of all coyote attacks were associated with the presence of pets (primarily dogs); that is, humans encountered aggressive coyote behavior toward dogs that were being walked, and in some cases people sustained injury in the act of attempting to rescue their pets from coyote attack.

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Widely regarded as an opportunistic species in terms of their food habits and behavior, coyotes in some circumstances will habituate to the presence of humans and human-associated food resources. Perhaps one of the first published descriptions of “habituated” coyotes was a report in Young and Jackson (1951:69), where they relate a 1947 report from Yellowstone National Park in which park staff described two coyotes that were habituated to tourists. Park rangers noted that while in the past, park visitors “were lucky to even see a glimpse” of a coyote, now two coyotes were extensively observed begging for food and posing for pictures, causing tourist traffic jams along the main park highway… an occurrence “until now unheard of in Yellowstone’s colorful history.”

http://www.coyotebytes.org/

... there's a news story archives section where you can review the details of a number of such attacks on humans rescuing, or attempting to rescue, their pets. The CoyoteBytes.org website unfortunately has not been updated lately, as it is awaiting new funding. Here is a good coyote management article from this website.

http://www.yellowstonenationalpark.com/coyote.htm

"Beginning in 1988, park staff increased monitoring of coyotes along park roadsides. We experimented with scaring unwary coyotes from visitor use areas with cracker shell rounds, bear repellent spray, or other negative stimuli, but there is little indication that such techniques caused long-term term changes in individual coyote behavior."

This observation belies the recommendations of the Stanley Park Ecological Society which says that using coyote clangers, making yourself big and banging pots will scare coyotes away and make them afraid of humans.

http://www.stanleyparkecology.ca/programs/conservation/urbanWildlife/coyotes/

The above link takes you to the lower mainlands Co-existing with Coyotes website. This is intended to give insight and education on coexisting with coyotes and preventing problems. They ask that you report sighting of coyotes to 604 681 9453.

Coyotes displaying aggressive or threatening behaviour in the Province of British Columbia should be immediately reported to the Ministry of Environment's call centre at 1-800-663-9453. When we called we were told we should have kept our pet indoors.