I am more concerned about the human-wildlife conflict arising depicted to very rapid increase in coyote sightings and close approaches across campus, particularly south campus. Rampant overbuilding is to blame here, which is putting humans as well as coyotes at risk.
From what I understand from the folks actually studying this, there is no empirical increase (though there are seasonal variations and encounters can be more intense when coyotes are denning.
Densification and increased human population in smaller and smaller places with relatively speaking less open space will indeed increase adverse encounters.
I am more concerned about the human-wildlife conflict arising depicted to very rapid increase in coyote sightings and close approaches across campus, particularly south campus. Rampant overbuilding is to blame here, which is putting humans as well as coyotes at risk.
From what I understand from the folks actually studying this, there is no empirical increase (though there are seasonal variations and encounters can be more intense when coyotes are denning.
Densification and increased human population in smaller and smaller places with relatively speaking less open space will indeed increase adverse encounters.