Information and stories about San Francisco coyotes: behavior & personality, coexistence & outreach, by Janet Kessler: Unveiling first-hand just how savvy, social, sentient and singular coyotes really are!
13 Mar 2011 4 Comments
by yipps:janetkessler in Uncategorized Tags: Amy Chandler, Peter Sulzle
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About My Site and Me: This website reflects my almost 20 years of intense, careful, and dedicated field-work — empirical observations — all photo-documented without interfering or changing coyotes’ behaviors. Be welcome here, enjoy, and learn! I am a self-taught naturalist and independent coyote researcher.
Coyotes reappeared in San Francisco in 2002 after many years of absence, and people are still in the dark about them. This site is to help bring light to their behavior and offer simple guidelines for easy coexistence.
My information comes from my own first-hand observations of our very own coyotes here in San Francisco. What I’m presenting to you is the reality of their everyday individual lives. They have not been studied or observed so thoroughly by anyone else. Mine is not generic information, nor second-hand.
Note that none of the coyotes I document and photograph is “anonymous” to me: I know (or knew) each one of them, and can tell you about their personalities, histories, and their family situations. There have been over 100 of them, distributed among over twenty families, all in San Francisco. Images and true stories have the power to raise awareness and change perspective.
Contact: Janet@coyoteyipps.com
© All information and photos in my postings come from my own original and first-hand documentation work which I am happy to share, with permission and with properly displayed credit: ©janetkessler/coyoteyipps.com.
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Mar 13, 2011 @ 02:28:29
Wow..!! Both of those sites have amazing photographs..thank you for posting!
The Peter Sulzle’s Wild Kamloops site has some stunning photographs, really nice.
Mar 13, 2011 @ 20:36:51
Hi Janet,
Thank you for posting a link to my website. I went over to Amy’s gallery as well and wished I had some of her subjects in my neck of the woods.
I was just going through some of your older posts and am enjoying them very much. After much searching, I have finally found the coyotes near my home and I will be posting coyote images more frequently.
Best,
Peter.
Mar 13, 2011 @ 21:51:50
The coyote photos and story in your recent blog posting are magical — really, really nice! I can’t wait to read more. If you want to put any of your behavior observations on the yipps site, you are welcome to do so.
Mar 16, 2011 @ 06:36:53
Wonderful, wonderful, wonderful. Can’t wait to send the link to this site around to all of my family. Thank you for all of your efforts.