The team, led by UC Davis PhD student Tal Caspi, decided the best way to do this was to spend two and a half years sifting through — God bless surgical glove inventors — coyote poop. Since the animals ...

A study of more than 700 coyote scat samples in San Francisco found that the wild canines are scavenging human food — tons of it. Chicken was the animals’ top food source, found in three ...

Researchers in Los Angeles are tracking urban coyotes and collecting scat to find out how humans and these wild canids can live peaceably side by side. Around 3 a.m., Justin Brown inched quietly down ...