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But in winter, "they suddenly like each other again," said Stanley Gehrt, an Ohio State University associate professor and wildlife specialist who has studied skunks in Illinois.
Illinois Holds Its Nose as Skunks Flourish Joe Barrett 2011
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While living with wildlife in the backyard may pose some minor lifestyle changes for urban dwellers, both Gehrt and Lambert stress that coyotes provide an important service.
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White and Gehrt also caution people against using the work of Robert Timm and his colleagues to make decisions on how to control - really, kill - urban coyotes.
Marc Bekoff: Coyotes: Fascinating Animals Who Should Be Appreciated, Not Killed 2010
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Gehrt says that means people need to change some of their behaviors.
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Lynsey White and Stanley Gehrt, working out of Ohio State University (Gehrt has also been conducting long-term studies of coyotes in Chicago) analyzed coyote attacks on humans that occurred in the United States and Canada between 1960 and 2006.
Marc Bekoff: Coyotes: Fascinating Animals Who Should Be Appreciated, Not Killed 2010
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Gehrt says they've also observed that coyotes learn much faster than domestic dogs do, and can safely cross busy highways and easily avoid traps set for them.
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Gehrt says they've also observed that coyotes learn much faster than domestic dogs do, and can safely cross busy highways and easily avoid traps set for them.
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Gehrt says that means people need to change some of their behaviors.
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While living with wildlife in the backyard may pose some minor lifestyle changes for urban dwellers, both Gehrt and Lambert stress that coyotes provide an important service.
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Since the study began, Gehrt and his colleagues have found that urban coyote populations are much larger than expected; that they live longer than their rural cousins in these environments; and that they are more active at nighttime than coyotes living in rural areas.
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