Coyotes frequently eat raccoons, as well as other small mammals like rabbits, rats, mice, and pet dogs and cats. Coyotes do run in family groups but not in packs of unrelated animals as wolves do.

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-quarters of ...

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 ... the humanity!) ...