Wildlife Ecologist Jonathan Young is employed of the Presidio Trust in San Francisco, California. Jonathan runs a monitoring program for coyotes which includes trapping and radio collaring animals to study their movements in San Francisco. In these images the two are using a coyote calling device a lidar heat sensing scope. Neck holds are set around the attractant in order to capture a live coyote.
Cities Gone Wild
Cities Gone Wild is an exploration of three savvy animals: black bears, coyotes and raccoons. Each of these urban carnivores are uniquely equipped to survive and even thrive in the human built landscape at a time when urbanization is decimating habitat for less adapted wildlife. I tracked these three carnivores in cities across the United States, to reveal how they are using our infrastructure and resources to carve out a unique place in society that might help them survive an uncertain future. Published in the July, 2022 issue of National Geographic Magazine
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