The adaptable and wily coyote

Twenty-five years ago, many Floridians might have thought of coyotes as animals scratching out a living amid the arid landscapes of the Southwestern United States. After all, it was usually a desert mesa that Wile E. Coyote plummeted from in pursuit of the Road Runner, not the top of a cabbage palm or granddaddy oak.
But sometime in the late 1980s, biologists started documenting the movements of coyotes to the southeastern part of the country.
“They are established in all 57 counties in the state of Florida,” said Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission Assistant Wildlife Biologist Eric Dennis. “Eradication is not going to be an option. They’re here, and we’re going to have to deal with them.”
    Dennis said changes in the environment, such as habitat destruction and the reduction, or disappearance, of certain other animals species made it easier for coyotes to migrate east.

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