Coyotes have made a steady comeback in San Francisco after once being nearly wiped out, renewing a debate between those who ...

But in San Francisco, they have become ubiquitous, and the tension between humans and coyotes is growing. Some people adore them, and coyote mania has seeped into the city’s quirky culture.

A coyote in San Francisco, March 2020, sent in by reader Charles Linder. Charlers Linder / @linderisms. Be loud If you see a coyote, scare it away with loud noises.

In San Francisco, coyotes have claimed urban parks as their territories. (Courtesy of Janet Kessler) Now Janet Kessler is known in the area as the “Coyote Lady” for her extensive field research and ...

It seems that every nook and cranny of San Francisco's parks and greenbelts has a coyote or two hiding in it. As winter takes hold, I would estimate more than 100 coyotes in San Francisco, based ...

The second most commonly eaten food group in San Francisco’s coyotes was small mammals, which were found in 73.8% of the collected samples and include invasive pest species such as black rats ...

San Francisco Municipal Transportation Agency interim chief Julie Kirschbaum told the SFMTA board of directors on Tuesday that two northbound coyotes were observed entering the Central Subway tunnel ...

Woman says coyote attacks dog while on a walk 01:34. SAN FRANCISCO --A spate of coyote attacks has dog owners at odds with their wild neighbors in the Presidio of San Francisco -- a park and ...

A 5-year-old girl on an outing at San Francisco Botanical Garden was attacked and bitten by a coyote, resulting in three coyotes being euthanized over the weekend, officials said.

A person enters the Botanical Garden in San Francisco’s Golden Gate Park in April 2023. Wildlife officers say a coyote that attacked a 5-year-old girl while she was playing during a supervised ...

San Francisco wildlife officers shot and killed three coyotes over the weekend after a 5-year-old girl was attacked by an animal in Golden Gate Park.. The inciting incident occurred Friday morning ...

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