Download or read book The Presence and Public Perception of Coyotes Canis Latrans in Suburban and Rural Areas of Western Georgia written by and published by . This book was released on 2007 with total page 130 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Investigating the Role of Coyotes Canis Latrans in the Spread of Parasites and Arthropod borne Diseases in Georgia USA written by Ansleigh Banks and published by . This book was released on 2019 with total page 100 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Author's abstract: In order to analyze the role of coyotes, Canis latrans, as hosts of parasites and arthropod-borne diseases in the state of Georgia, USA, 38 coyotes representing 18 counties and multiple geographic regions of the state were dissected and analyzed for the presence of Dirofilaria immitis, intestinal parasites, ectoparasites, and tick-borne illnesses. Mosquitoes from the locations which the coyotes originated were trapped and analyzed for the presence of D. immitis larvae. In compliance with IACUC guidelines, coyotes were obtained from individuals who had previously hunted or trapped the coyotes for leisure. Parasites were identified based on morphological features with the use of dichotomous and pictorial keys. A total of 1086 parasites were collected: 215 intestinal nematodes, 116 cestodes, 1 acanthocephalan, 359 filarial nematodes, 128 ticks, 10 fleas, and 257 lice. Of the 38 coyotes examined, 21 had adult D. immitis present, 30 had adult parasites or ova present, and 19 had ticks present. Trends in prevalence and burden of parasites among different regions of the state, and different sexes, ages, and sizes of coyotes were analyzed. Three specimens had no parasite of any form present (7.89%), while 11 of the specimens were found to be affected by heartworms, intestinal parasites, and ectoparasites (28.94%). Of 30 specimens analyzed for exposure to tick-borne illness with the SNAP 4dx ELISA test, 10 were found to have been exposed to Ehrlichia canis or Ehrlichia ewingii (33%), and 1 was found to have been exposed to Borrelia burgdorferi (3.33%). Gravid trapping of mosquitoes yielded specimens belonging to 7 species which are vectors of D. immitis. Two mosquitoes were suspected to be infected with D. immitis larvae; however, molecular detection methods must be performed to confirm this. The results of this study provide a more diverse record of parasitism and arthropod-borne diseases in Georgia's coyote population as samples were taken from as many different locations throughout the state as possible. This study found coyotes to be wildlife hosts and modes of transportation for parasites which can negatively affect the health of both humans and domestic animals.
Download or read book Proceedings Emerging Issues Along Urban Rural Interfaces II Linking Science and Society written by David N. Laband and published by . This book was released on 2007 with total page 322 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Understanding the Influences of Human coyote Interactions and Coyote Distributions Within Northeast Ohio written by Alexander M. Wyatt and published by . This book was released on 2019 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With growing urban and suburban areas across the nation there is an increasing need to understand human-wildlife interactions. The Coyote (Canis latrans) is an adaptable and opportunistic species that can thrive in anthropogenic environments. This study was conducted with two goals in mind. First, to understand the influences of human-coyote interactions using public reports, and second, to use these interactions along with wildlife cameras to predict where future human-coyote interactions may occur. Using public reports, our research objectives were to discern when coyotes are most actively encountering humans and to also determine what activities trigger human-coyote interactions. Over three years, 261 reports were collected from the public documenting interactions in northeast Ohio. Reports were categorized according to variables such as date, time, season, and activity type. Chi-squared and logistic regression analyses were performed using R 3.3.1 (R Core Team, Vienna, Austria). Significant results were seen within the categorical variables of month, time of day, activity type and coyote biological season. We saw significant results with the time of day and activity type with interactions when reports were differentiated between basic observations and reports of concern from reporting individuals. From these results we were able to understand: 1) the likelihood of when the general public and coyotes are having an interaction that leads to a public report, 2) any activity type which involved the presence of a domestic dog was 4.7 times more likely to have an interaction of concern. The second half of this project used the locations of public reports and wildlife cameras to create species distribution models based on land cover variables. Using this date, several modeling methods were performed (machine learning, occupancy, and frequency regression). However, an interpretive model was not crated due to limitations and biases of the data and model type. Instead, this chapter focuses on the methods used and the benefits and pitfalls of each of these methods. The findings of this study are an important step in understanding factors that may lead to interactions, offer insights on coyote management within urban settings, and also provide valuable information on ways to improve future reporting and modeling attempts.
Download or read book Home Range Movements and Activity Patterns of Coyotes Canis Latrans in Los Angeles Suburbs written by Eric Samuel Shargo and published by . This book was released on 1988 with total page 262 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Coyote Settles the South written by John Lane and published by University of Georgia Press. This book was released on 2016-05-15 with total page 197 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The story of Lane's journey as he visits coyote territories: swamps, nature preserves, old farm fields, suburbs, a tannery, and even city streets. Along the way, he gains insight concerning the migration into the Southeast of the American coyote, an animal that, in the end, surprises him with its intelligence, resilience, and amazing adaptability.
Download or read book The Coyote written by François Leydet and published by University of Oklahoma Press. This book was released on 1988 with total page 230 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Studies the interaction of two most successful large predatory species--the coyote and man.
Download or read book Predator Damage in the West written by U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service and published by . This book was released on 1978 with total page 180 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Eastern Coyote canis Latrans in Washington D C written by Lindsay Powers and published by . This book was released on 2021 with total page 142 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In a later stage of their range expansion across North America over the last 100 years or so, coyotes (Canis latrans) arrived in the Washington, D.C. area relatively recently, with reported sightings in and around Rock Creek Park since 2004. While coyotes have been studied in many other metropolitan areas, there has been little research on the urban population within the District. This study focused on how coyotes might be moving in and out of Rock Creek Park using camera traps placed in tributary areas that could serve as green travel corridors, and near the park's northern boundary where a green corridor extends into Maryland. Knowledge of coyotes' travel behaviors could help indicate areas outside the park that they might frequent and include in their home ranges. This study also focused on the diet of coyotes within Rock Creek Park through scat analysis to learn more about their potential impact on the local ecosystem. Lastly, this study involved the conduction of howl surveys and investigation of sound analysis of coyote howls as a potential tool that researchers could use to track individuals within the district. With coyotes as an established presence in the area, a greater understanding of their behaviors within this specific urban context can help inform possible management strategies and education efforts.
Download or read book Anthropogenic Influence on Coyote Canis Latrans Winter Movements in Eastern New Brunswick written by Mathieu Dumond and published by Halifax : Parks Canada, Atlantic Region. This book was released on 2001 with total page 40 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This report presents the results of 2 capture and restrain procedures used on coyotes in the Greater Kouchibouguac Ecosystem in New Brunswick. It describes the capture methods, their efficiency, and by-catch management, and addresses recommendations for future studies needing to live-trap canids. It also presents the results of an assessment of anthropogenic influence on coyote winter movements, by comparing the home ranges, movements and activity of radio-collared coyotes.
Download or read book The Relation of Coyotes to Stock Raising in the West written by David Ernest Lantz and published by . This book was released on 1905 with total page 720 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Connectivity of Two Urban Coyote Canis Latrans Populations Sacramento and San Francisco to Surrounding Rural Populations written by Katherine Frances Marquez and published by . This book was released on 2011 with total page 104 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The total land-mass of urban areas is rapidly increasing, forcing wildlife species to respond either by reductions in their distribution and abundance or acclimation to urban and otherwise modified habitats. Coyotes (Canis latrans) are found in the heart of some major cities within their range but relegated to the fringes of others. I examined two urban coyote populations. One population, San Francisco, is relatively new, having become established in patches of habitat within the city only within the last several years, providing a window into the process of colonization. The other, Sacramento, is linear and provides a natural connection between the valley and the foothills. The goal of my research is to investigate genetic connectivity between these two urban coyote populations and surrounding rural populations and to assess the possibility of a single founder pair origin for the San Francisco population. Recent research in provides evidence for natal habitat preference in California coyotes. Using genetic assignment methods, at least four genetic subdivisions, corresponding to bioregions, were found: Great Valley, Cascades/Sierra Nevada/Modoc (hereafter referred to as Sierra Nevada), Northwestern, and Central Western. Coyote DNA from scat and some opportunistically collected blood and tissue samples from our two study sites were genotyped at 14 microsatellite loci. Those genotypes were ran in STRUCTURE along with reference genotypes from previously establish clusters in order to determine assignment. The American River Parkway results indicate both a high level of assignment to the Sierra Nevada cluster and no assignment to the Great Valley cluster. The elevational change along the American River Parkway did not appear to have an effect on the results. When the data were analyzed in STUCTURE with K = 3, most coyotes assigned to a cluster distinct from the Great Valley or Sierra Nevada, which indicates high genetic similarity among the American River Parkway coyotes relative to the surrounding populations. The San Francisco population, having allele counts of greater than four for half of our loci, does not support the single founder pair hypothesis but these counts could have been skewed due to genotyping error. The significant difference between the number of loci with allele counts greater than four in the sample population and the Northwestern reference population provides support for a small founding population. We did not see a strong clustering of the San Francisco genotypes with either the Northwestern or Central Western cluster. The single individual that did assign to the Central Western cluster was from the most southern park sampled, indicating that there is some immigration from the Central Western population. The high relatedness among San Francisco individuals does not support a hypothesis of high immigration from either/or both the Northwestern or Central Western populations. The Central Western displayed high levels of within cluster relatedness, similar to within San Francisco, but Northwestern displayed low levels of relatedness within its cluster. When assessing relatedness among populations we found some error due to probability. This error is evident in relationship levels between the Northwestern cluster and the Central Western cluster, which are geographically isolated from each other. When assessing relationships by park, high relatedness was seen within the Presidio. Among the different parks, the pairs of parks that showed the three highest number of relationships were between Glen Park and each of the other three parks. This shows both evidence of the willingness of coyotes to traverse urban landscapes and the inability of small parks to sustain many individuals. I used noninvasive genetic sampling, which has inherent limitations to for genetic analysis because it yields low quality and quantity DNA. For this reason, genotypic error due to allelic dropout is common. Lack of detection can produce null alleles that may result in false homozygotes. In addition, season/weather, age of feces at collection, and time between preservation and DNA extraction all greatly affect PCR amplification success. Both the American River Parkway and the San Francisco study sites offer insight from a wildlife management perspective. This information can be used, either for the development of corridors and wildlife areas to promote urban wildlife and/or for strategies in managing the population size of current urban coyote populations. Both strategies meet the purpose of limiting the human-wildlife interface within urban areas and thus limiting the opportunity for conflict.
Download or read book Food Habits of the Coyote Canis Latrans in Urban and Suburban Areas of Western Tennessee written by Tommy S. Parker and published by . This book was released on 1999 with total page 56 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Eastern Coyote Canis Latrans Var in Connecticut written by Rhonda Rose Twiss and published by . This book was released on 2006 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Urbanization and Its Effects on Resource Use and Individual Specialization in Coyotes Canis Latrans in a Southern California written by Rachel Nicole Larson and published by . This book was released on 2019 with total page 44 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ecological opportunity in the form of habitat and food heterogeneity are thought to be important mechanisms in maintaining individual specialization. Urban environments are unique because fragments of natural or semi-natural habitat are embedded within a permeable matrix of human-dominated areas, creating increased habitat heterogeneity compared to the surrounding landscape. In addition, urban areas can provide diet subsidies in the form of human trash and domestic animals, which also increases ecological opportunities. I investigated the degree to which coyotes (Canis latrans) utilized anthropogenic subsidies and exhibited individual specialization across the urban-rural gradient in Los Angeles and Ventura Counties, California. I used scat analysis to analyze population-level differences in diet combined with stable isotope analysis to understand diet variation on an individual level. Land use surrounding scat and isotope sample collection sites was also evaluated to determine the effect of urban land cover on diet. Human food constituted a significant portion of urban coyote diet (22% of scats, 38% of diet as estimated by stable isotope analysis). Domestic cats (Felis catus) and non-native fruit and seeds were also important prey items in urban coyote diets. Consumption of anthropogenic items decreased with decreasing urbanization. In suburban areas, seasonality influenced the frequency of occurrence of anthropogenic subsidies with increased consumption in the dry season. Seasonal effects were not seen in urban areas. The amount of altered open space (defined as golf courses, cemeteries, and mowed parks) in a coyote's home range had a negative effect on the consumption of anthropogenic items. Urban coyotes displayed reduced among-individual variation compared to suburban and rural coyotes. It is possible that the core urban areas of cities are so densely developed and subsidized that wildlife inhabiting these areas actually have reduced ecological opportunity. Suburban animals had the broadest isotopic niches and maintained similar individual specialization to rural coyotes. Wildlife in suburban areas still have access to relatively undisturbed natural areas while being able to take advantage of anthropogenic subsidies in neighboring residential areas. Therefore, areas with intermediate urban development may be associated with increased ecological opportunity and specialization.
Download or read book Myths and Truths About Coyotes written by Carol Cartaino and published by Menasha Ridge Press. This book was released on 2010-11-01 with total page 202 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Coyotes hold a peculiar interest as both an enduring symbol of the wild and a powerful predator we are always anxious to avoid. This book examines the spread of coyotes across the country over the past century, and the storm of concern and controversy that has followed. Individual chapters cover the surprisingly complex question of how to identify a coyote, the real and imagined dangers they pose, their personality and lifestyle, and nondeadly ways of discouraging them.
Download or read book Suburban Howls written by Jonathan Way and published by Suburban Howls. This book was released on 2007 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is about the experiences and findings of a biologist studying coyote ecology and behavior in urbanized eastern Massachusetts. Jon Way is acting out a childhood dream to study wild animals. However, instead of going to far off places such as Africa or the remote stretches of the Rocky Mountains, he began his professional career in high school and college by tracking eastern coyotes in his own hometown on Cape Cod. We hear so much about this unique animal and the conflicts it can create but relatively little is known about the coyotes in the east. The lack of other studies taking place on coyotes in urbanized areas in eastern North America provided Way with the perfect graduate project, and an unending source of information and entertainment. The coyote is a remarkable animal, being one of the only carnivores to actually increase its range and distribution in the past one hundred years. Coyotes have taken over as top predator in all environments in New England from wilderness parks to city greenbelts. Along its migration to the northeast it has become larger, likely the product of hybridization between western coyotes and eastern wolves, and with that, we see more speculation and theories about what the animal is, how it got here, and why it is here. This book celebrates having these animals living among us and makes a passionate plea for their protection. After all, with the eradication of most of their competition in New England, mainly wolves, a niche for a relatively large carnivore was left vacant for over one hundred years. Coyotes naturally colonized these areas on their own four feet and deserve the respect that any native carnivore should be granted. With their tremendous range expansion in a relatively short amount of time, coyotes proved that it is unnatural not to have a predator in most ecosystems. In Suburban Howls, Way takes us with him as he navigates dirt roads and wooded paths, travels through cemeteries, around cranberry bogs, in and out of residential areas, down power lines, and even into the city to see where coyotes travel and rest and how they survive, raise pups, prosper as a family, and ultimately die, many before their time. A fascinating account details the author raising a wild-born litter of coyotes, capturing his first coyote in a box trap, tracking a coyote into downtown Boston, documenting an increase in local coyote numbers following the death of resident territorial coyotes, and seeing first-hand how coyotes mourn when separated from their family. The reader will discover that it is perfectly appropriate to have wildlife in developed areas and that people, not wild animals, are the ones that typically have a hard time adjusting to their new neighbors. With a territorial species like a coyote, any land that does not have other coyotes might as well have a "For Rent" sign out. This book is written for the layman in a humorous, easy-reading style. It highlights the dedication and emotional involvement of working with this needlessly controversial animal, and will offer simple precautions to enable Homo sapiens to coexist with these wild canines that Native Americans called the Trickster. The data Way has gathered over the past ten years will enlighten and educate you with an insight into the behavior and habits of these remarkable wild dogs.
