Coyotes Of Chicago

Not politics, but I thought this was interesting:

The owners of the Chicago Bears might want to consider a new mascot for their team. The city is pretty much bear-free—save the local zoo—but there is at least one pack of coyotes living right downtown in the Loop, and there may be thousands of coyotes residing in the Chicagoland area.

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Scientists believed that, given the pressures of living amid the nine-million people of greater Chicago, coyotes would not be able to maintain defined territories or preserve the complex social structure of the packs they typically live in. "But they do," said Gehrt. "And it looks no different in an urban area than it would out in the country. They carved out territories in completely developed areas."

We're used to them here in Hollywood, but Chicago?? Weird.