Increasingly occurring within its urban neighbourhoods and public spaces, San Diego County encounters a heightened presence of urban coyotes.
As FOX 5 San Diego reports, “residents in the University City community, for example, have reported an increase in coyote sightings within a less than mile radius of the Westfield UTC shopping mall in recent months.” Similarly, the University of California Agriculture and Natural Resources database also reports coyotes “in the county as far north as Oceanside to as far south as Otay Mesa near the U.S.-Mexico border…”
Concerning the reason behind these coyote encounters, the San Diego Humane Society states, “coyotes are highly adaptable animals who have learned to thrive in urban and suburban environments due to habitat loss, availability of food sources, and lack of natural predators.”…