Human – Coyote Interactions
This project began with an online survey that ran from Oct 2014 to June 2015 and was completed by nearly 2,000 metro Atlanta residents. We were attempting to learn about the public’s attitudes towards, perceptions of, and interactions with coyotes. The map below shows a geographic breakdown of the number of surveys we received from each of Atlanta’s 25 Neighborhood Planning Units (NPUs).
Coyote Reports
In Oct 2015 the public began reporting coyote sightings (an observation at a distance with no interaction) and encounters (an interaction at close range) to our website. The data provided by these “citizen scientists” has been extremely helpful to us, and the figures below summarize reports received from 2015-17 (data collection is ongoing). The increasing number of reports through time does not necessarily reflect a growing coyote population, but rather an increased awareness of our website.
