Larkspur Project Protects Coyotes

When humans and coyotes come into contact with each other, it's usually a bad situation for both sides.

Twin Cities residents have reported seeing coyotes in their backyards and poking through trash and even skirmishes between domestic dogs and coyotes.

Project Coyote, a Larkspur-based organization is trying to improve the reputation of coyotes and to teach residents how they can coexist with the animals, according to the San Francisco Chronicle.

Camilla Fox, executive director of Project Coyote, told the Chronicle coyotes "keep the rodent population and other mesocarnivores - like foxes, skunks and raccoons - in check, which helps songbird and ground-nesting bird populations."

One of our regular readers, Popo, sent in a cool video of a coyote on Ring Mountain. See it and more photos and videos here, then andd your own.