Coyotes Taking to City Life

animanhattan Feb. 9, 2010

Coyotes Taking to City Life

By Jessica Pressler, a writer living in New York. She has contributed to New York Magazine since 2007.

“They’re pushing themselves into the city, and what they found in the city is that life isn’t so bad.” —Dr. Stanley Gehrt of Ohio State University to the Post, of the recent influx of coyotes to New York City

Related: Daily Intel’s coverage of the coyote diaspora

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