New behavioral habits have been coming from coyotes living in Seashore beach; nine coyotes were found begging at cars, hoping to get a midnight snack. Coyote's natural appetite mainly consists of rodents, small animals, pets, but also scavenge road kill, garbage, and even pet food . These scavengers will eat anything they can get their paws on, and sources of predicted human-provided food can make a coyote to act tame and could lead to strange behavior. Because of the increasing number of coyotes coming in, rangers have also increased in number to monitor the parking lot and beach.
These behaviors were caused by us by foolishly illegally offering them food, such as bags of dog food and piles of fish guts and fish heads in the parking lot. Rangers are prohibiting people to give these animals anymore food for safety reasons and to maintain their natural diet.
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