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Re:Coyotes Poised to Infiltrate South America by chrisco255 on Sunday January 26, 2020 @12:23PM (#22153282)
Big felines and wolves don't do well in urban/suburban environments. Coyotes do.
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Re:Coyotes Poised to Infiltrate South America by erikpukinskis on Sunday January 26, 2020 @10:16PM (#22156629)
The irony: we kill large scary predators, but inevitably medium sized predators replace them. People and cattle are not terrorized but our Shih Tzus and kitty cats are.
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Re:Coyotes Poised to Infiltrate South America by pvaldes on Monday January 27, 2020 @05:34AM (#22158170)
Yep, It even has a name in Ecology: Mesopredator release. You can have one wolf or "twenty" coyotes in the same area.
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