heise: the reason that they now inhabit what weder to be our spaces is that the city has expanded out into their habitat. but coyotes are also one of those species that do make use of human settlements in often quite ingenious ways in at they obviously have learned when to cross streets and whento noross them. it turns outcoyotes are very smart about actually observing the change of traffic lights. ma : so, this is the backside of the park here. there are almost no limits to coyotes' ability to adapt to the urban environment... because south central l.a. is prosynonymous with the most inner-city ighborhoods in the worl finding coyotes here is just-- just amazing to me and exciting every time i'm able to collect some more scat. here in south l. wetlands, there's proof that coyotes use this area because 'm finding coyote scat inside tences. coyotes are species that mostno peoplelive in the l.a. area, but people think that they live in the mountas-- mountainous areas or griffith park, where there's more open space, but really don'think of them as animals abl to this type of landscape. [c