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Skip to main content. Search WTTW:. Evan Garcia December 27, pm. Thanks to our sponsors:. According to Block, this coyote and a number like it, each fitted with a GPS collar, are used to help the city lower its pest problems. However, since this news story broke, there have been several other ideas put out there as to the real reason Chicagoans are seeing coyotes in their city. Coyotes, a natural part of the plains geography and ecological system, have been pushed out of the city and had to redefine their role within the dynamics of the human presence.
This means that the coyotes have become more brazen and bold, venturing outwards into the cities where years ago they would never have been found. Many cities in the Southwest have already learned first-hand what happens when the coyotes move in to the metropolitan area. In California and Arizona , people have taken to feeding the coyotes, giving them handouts, making them more comfortable with people and counting on people as a source of food.
Many coyotes have had to be removed from those areas as the coyotes start to take advantage of the comfort afforded to them: often times attacking and eating pets and, in very small cases, attacking children. The coyotes had become a pest.
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