OLLI-NATR-6000 - Becoming Wolf: The Eastern Coyote 

Course Description

Myths surround the coyote and cloud our understanding of it. Originating as the smaller western coyote, our eastern coyote shares genes with the Eastern wolf and the western coyote. Its hybrid nature enables its resilience and adaptability to live in farms, forest or city. It has rewilded the northeast with its howl and ability to prey on large and small mammals but, despite its ecological benefits, it is the most persecuted carnivore in North America. And despite human efforts to eradicate it, it survives and thrives among us.  How to live with this creature and why we must, depends upon the human will to move over, make room and appreciate that a new “wild” is now with us.