Coyotes killed a Canadian woman in 2009, the only time the animals have been known to kill an adult human. Scientists now think they know why it happened.
“We’re describing these animals expanding their niche to basically rely on moose. And we’re also taking a step forward and saying it’s not just scavenging that they were doing, but they were actually killing moose when they could. It’s hard for them to do that, but because they had very little if anything else to eat, that was their prey,” said lead author Stan Gehrt, a wildlife ecologist at OSU, in afrom the university. “And that leads to conflicts with people that you wouldn’t normally see.
Gehrt and his team also collected evidence that points away from other common theories for the attack. The coyotes in the park had an expansive range, but they still tended to avoid. They also moved more often at night during periods of the year when humans were most active in the daytime. And only a handful of the coyotes had recently eaten human food
, further reducing the possibility that these animals are spending much time near us. Lastly, hunting and trapping isn’t allowed in the park, meaning that local coyotes may not fear humans as much as they typically do elsewhere.“It’s a big area for these coyotes to live in and never have a negative experience with a human—if they have any experience at all,” Gehrt said.
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