A series of prominent veterinarians Tuesday called for the Forest Preserve District of Cook County to free a coyote from its cage and transfer it to an animal sanctuary, while
The coyote was found in Tennessee by people who took him for an abandoned dog. He was socialized and trained to be adopted like a pet. Since 2018, he’s been kept in a metal enclosure at the River Trail Nature Center in Northbrook, where the Cook County Forest Preserve District says he gets expert care.
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A little after lunchtime on Jan. 14, Brad Herrick was heading out the door to walk his dog, Ruby, when he thought he saw a dog running loose.
About 20 yards away, it was trotting down the sidewalk on East Dayton Street past Lapham Elementary School. It was skinny and its brown coat looked âdisheveled.â
Herrick, an ecologist with the UW Arboretum, did a double-take.
âThatâs a coyote,â he realized.
Karl Lang shot this photo of a coyote feasting on a rabbit from the window of his home on Waunona Way. It s wearing a radio collar researchers use to track its movement.
Coyote mating season is underway. We're blessed in the tri-state area with lots of habitat for coyotes to roam, so coyote-human conflicts are rare around here. It is coyote mating season however, and that can mean unusual coyote behavior. The Urban Coyote Research Project offers these tips to avoid conflict with a coyote: