Coyotes Are Just Like Hipsters

They Come to the City for the Good Life, and They Eat Your Rats

Everyone in America has a coyote story. Or if you don’t, give it time. You will.

The tawny, golden-eyed, sharp-nosed wild dog of the American deserts is now our backyard predator, everywhere from Miami to Toronto and San Diego to Seattle.

The stories are already piling up. During a heat wave, in broad daylight, a coyote strolls into a Quiznos sandwich shop in Chicago and hops up on a freezer to cool off. Customers and staff flee for the street, where a shocked crowd gathers to peer through the windows …

What Should Be the Official Animal of Los Angeles?

Anyone Representing This Place Should Be Resourceful, Adaptable, Clever, and Maybe a Little Misunderstood

The bald eagle symbolizes the United States. The grizzly bear (though no longer found here) emblemizes California. But in spite of Los Angeles’s vast wilderness areas—from mountains, canyons, and lakes …