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 ...