Coyotes are members of the Canidae family and share a lot of the same traits of their relatives, wolves, dogs, foxes, and jackals. It appears smaller than its close relative, the gray wolf, and slightly smaller than the closely related eastern wolf and red wolf. See the fact file below ...
There was a slightly positive relationship between FID and time to approach a novel object ( r 2 =0.15, p =0.03), but no relationship among all three tests ( r 2 =0.15, p =0.45). Our results suggest a behavioral syndrome for boldness and explorations, but these traits are unlikely to...
To help understand how coyotes have adapted to living in urban environments, we compared two ecologically and evolutionarily important behavioral traits (i.e., bold-shy and exploration-avoidance behavior) in two contrasting environments (i.e., rural and urban). Boldness is an individual's reaction...
Do not allow coyotes to approach people or pets. If you see a coyote, be aggressive in your behavior: stand tall and hold your arms up or out to look large. If a coyote lingers for too long, then make loud noises, wave your arms, and throw sticks and stones. Teach children to appr...
Wolves and coyotes are two types of canines that share many common traits. They are both members of the dog family, Canidae, and both types of canines belong to the genus Canis, which also includes jackals and domestic dogs. Wolves and coyotes are both doglike in appearance, have si...
Our results suggest a behavioral syndrome for boldness and explorations, but these traits are unlikely to be coupled with aggression in coyotes. While these three tests may not be ideally combined to create a behavioral syndrome in individual coyotes, using FID and novel object testing may ...
I used discriminant function analysis on a set of scat samples DNA-verified to species to show that morphological traits of gray fox, bobcat and coyote scats are not diagnostic of species; predictive models based on morphology have misclassification rates of ∼35%. These results suggest that ...
The alleles at each locus associated with canine social behavior is a short transposable element (TE) insertion of the LINE or SINE family of elements. Previous research has found that an increased copy number of these insertions is significantly associated with increased social interest, and thus ...
Small, isolated populations are more prone to suffer from a loss of genetic diversity, which can increase the prevalence of deleterious genetic traits [2,3,4], and, in extreme cases, may result in local extinction [5]. Urbanization especially contributes to isolation through loss, fragmentation,...