""There's so much conflict we see between humans and coyotes: like coyotes eating pets. And as a result, people poison coyotes," Pourahmad said. "That makes me want to help them out, both the coyotes and humans.""
""Coyotes have their own neighborhoods, and each coyote you see isn't random. So it's kind of their home as well as ours," Singhal said."
""They use the many creeks we have, like Guadalupe River, Los Gatos Creek, Coyote Creek, and a lot more to move around in urban areas without being sighted," Pourahmad said."
Two Los Gatos High School students founded the Silicon Valley Wildlife Group to track coyotes across the region. They compiled sightings from their own photos, county vector control updates, Nextdoor reports and resident submissions into an interactive map with more than a thousand data points, color-coded by time, location and behavior. Sightings cluster along creeks that run through South Bay neighborhoods, which serve as wildlife corridors linking the Santa Cruz Mountains with suburban parks, golf courses and backyards. A 2023 study found coyote-human conflicts increased, especially during pup-rearing season and near green spaces, and poisonings follow pet predation incidents.
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