

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!
20 Sep 2017 4 Comments
by yipps:janetkessler in coyote behavior, diet, foraging, poisons
About My Site and Me: This website reflects my 16 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!
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. 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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(A crash course in SF coyotes!)
(Another crash course in coyotes generally!)
Sep 20, 2017 @ 00:16:09
I had a coyote mix who loved to eat a certain berry from a specific bush we’d pass often on our walks. As soon as the berries appeared, she’d start “testing” them with her little front teeth. She didn’t eat them until they easily pulled off the bush. Sometimes that took six weeks or more, but she never ate them until they were very ripe. Then she LOVED them!
Sep 20, 2017 @ 03:51:43
Hi Bobbie — Very interesting! Do you know what plant it was? Janet
Sep 20, 2017 @ 09:35:14
Hi, Janet, it’s Charles. What a great story. Wheew.
It must be that a coyote goes by taste, I think so anyway. And the fruit becomes edible when it is about to drop its seeds. So I think that, if the fruit were tasty before the seeds were mature, the plant’s seeds wouldn’t get to mature because coyotes and others would eat them. So we can say that a coyote is smart about what it eats. And I would like to think that a plant is a sort of “discriminating” producer.
Sep 20, 2017 @ 12:46:27
Smart plants! :))