Coyotes

The family pet was placed in an intensive care unit following her confrontation with the wild coyote.

Although coyotes are usually wary of humans, one coyote has reportedly injured three Marines and one sailor along a popular jogging path.

The woman walked nearly two miles after being bitten in order to get to her car, before driving herself to a hospital.

The boy was bitten multiple times outside the Peggy Notebaert Nature Museum in Lincoln Park, police said, hours before a 32-year-old man walked into a hospital saying a coyote had bitten him.

Americans kill more than half a million coyotes a year.

Coyotes in your city don't want to kill you, but they might try to eat your cat or small dog.

"It was nearly half a pizza," he said. "This has got to be for herself."

Coyotes, wolves and dogs are all interfertile, meaning that they can make puppies that in turn can make even more mixed puppies.

Wildlife Services killed five animals per minute last year.

There are still "no limit" coyote-killing contests with prizes for the most tails turned in.

Bats, sharks, vultures, wolves and coyotes are all more popular than in the 1970s.

A hybridized canid made up of coyote, wolf and dog genes is expanding across the eastern U.S.

The animals are moving into the city and suburbs to escape human hunters.