00:00 Coyotes are members of the genus Canis, which includes all dogs, jackals, and wolves, and they are native to North America.

04:32 Coyotes are highly adaptable and have expanded their range and population despite efforts to drive them to extinction.

09:20 Coyotes are wolf-like animals that are bigger than foxes and have a narrow snout, and they engage in social behavior called fission fusion where they can live and hunt alone or in packs depending on the resources available.

13:52 Coyotes can hunt in packs and have been known to attack larger animals like elk, but attacks on humans are rare; they have a short lifespan in the wild, usually around 6-8 years, and they mate for life, adjusting the number of pups they have based on the population size; they raise their young in dens and their territory size varies depending on food availability.

18:31 Coyotes have a fluid social structure within their packs, with alphas, betas, helpers, and slouches, and some betas may be kicked out to find their own territory depending on food availability.

23:29 Coyotes evolved from a larger size to a smaller size in order to fill an ecological niche left open by wolves, and they were heavily targeted and killed in the past due to the belief that they were a threat to livestock.

28:15 In the past, coyotes were heavily targeted and killed through various eradication methods, such as poisoning and shooting, but by the 1970s, the banning of poisons and the spread of coyotes into new areas allowed them to survive and thrive.

33:23 Coyotes have been able to thrive in urban environments where wolves cannot, and without wolves to keep their population in check, coyotes have been successful in the face of eradication campaigns.

37:47 Coyotes can be dangerous to humans, but non-lethal methods of coyote control, such as scaring them with noise, are more effective than kill programs.

42:06 Coyotes have had a bad reputation in the past, but they have also been seen as tricksters in Native American mythologies.

46:37 This section of the podcast is unrelated to the topic of coyotes and includes a discussion about a tragic case and a listener's feedback.