The New Watch Dogs! by Topsy Farms
12 Mar 2023 3 Comments
in coexisting with coyotes, Coyotes on Farms and Ranches, farming and ranching
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!
12 Mar 2023 3 Comments
by yipps:janetkessler in coexisting with coyotes, Coyotes on Farms and Ranches, farming and ranching
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 12, 2023 @ 00:45:35
This is a great way to work with nature rather than against it (and we know how that always turns out). Thanks for posting!
Mar 12, 2023 @ 04:19:30
Yes, so nice to see what can and should be happening. Westerners have always dominated and conquered nature — there’s no need for this when, as you say, we can work WITH nature. Thanks for your comment! Janet
Mar 12, 2023 @ 15:04:02
It is so soul-affirming to learn of coexistence methods, rather than the fallback “kill” mode. Thank you for sharing.