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Research reports and resources

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Ghost Dogs and Their Unwitting Accomplices

Anthropology Now

Stanley D. Gehrt, PhD
Behavioral Ecology Volume 30, Issue 3

Behavioral responses by an apex predator to urbanization

Behavioral Ecology

Stanley D. Gehrt, PhD
Is the Urban Coyote a Misanthropic Synanthrope?

Is the Urban Coyote a Misanthropic Synanthrope?

The Case from Chicago

Cities and the Environment, an online journal

Chris Anchor, Stanley D. Gehrt, PhD
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Seasonal and daily shifts in behavior and resource selection: how a carnivore navigates costly landscapes

Oecologia

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Stress in the city?

Coyote hair cortisol varies with intrinsic and extrinsic factors within a heavily urbanized landscape

Science of the Total Environment

Katie Robertson, Stanley D. Gehrt, PhD
The Wildlife Society Bulletin Volume 44, Issue 2 June 2020

Golf Courses as Potential Habitat for Urban Coyotes

The Wildlife Society Bulletin

Ashley Wurth, Stanley D. Gehrt, PhD
coyote in snow downtown

Dense human population is linked to longer urban coyote survival

Urban Ecosystems

Stanley D. Gehrt, PhD

Coyotes Among Us


Now available: an eye-opening volume of photographs and research on coyotes, based on more than 20 years of research by Dr. Stanley D. Gehrt and our team

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