Comments on: Mesopredator Release https://www.isegoria.net/2014/10/mesopredator-release/ From the ancient Greek for equality in freedom of speech; an eclectic mix of thoughts, large and small Tue, 23 Jun 2026 09:00:55 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.6.1 By: Bert E. https://www.isegoria.net/2014/10/mesopredator-release/comment-page-1/#comment-1634533 Bert E. Tue, 14 Oct 2014 13:24:14 +0000 http://www.isegoria.net/?p=36443#comment-1634533 These species too have gone through a Darwinian selection process. They are the survivors that were able to adapt to the man-created environment and thrive.

Coyotes the more you hunt them the more they proliferate and spread. They have more food from less competition and produce bigger litters at an earlier breeding age, with a higher percentage of those litters becoming adults. Those coyotes that survive the extermination process become a very lean and mean and smart coyote.

With the widespread use of fossil fuels the forests too have grown back from a time when 100 years or so ago the land was more barren. No more need for wood-cutting as a fuel source.

]]> By: Bob Sykes https://www.isegoria.net/2014/10/mesopredator-release/comment-page-1/#comment-1634342 Bob Sykes Tue, 14 Oct 2014 11:53:58 +0000 http://www.isegoria.net/?p=36443#comment-1634342 Stanley Gehrt at Ohio State has a long-standing research project on the coyotes of Chicago:

http://researchnews.osu.edu/archive/urbcoyot.htm

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