Coyotes Are Getting Bigger Across America — And No One Can Explain Why

This predator is living in your city right now. And you've never noticed it. In 2007, a wild predator walked into a Chicago sandwich shop in the middle of the lunch rush. It didn't run. It didn't panic. It climbed into a drink cooler between the bottles and stayed there for 53 minutes — six feet away from forty people. It wasn't a lost dog. It was one of the most successful predators on Earth. In this video, we break down the phenomenon of the coywolf — a hybrid of coyote, wolf, and domestic dog that conquered all 49 mainland US states in just 100 years, moved into Manhattan, Chicago, and Los Angeles, and is already looking south toward South America. While other large predators are disappearing — it's expanding. Why? — How the coyote became something entirely new — What happened when wolves were exterminated — Why its genome is 64% coyote, 26% wolf, and 10% dog — How 2,000 of these animals are living inside Chicago right now — Why you never see them, even though you live within a mile of one This is a story about evolution happening in real time. About a predator that doesn't hide from civilization — it uses it. #coyote #coywolf #UrbanPredators #WildAnimalsInCities #ecology #evolution #ChicagoWildlife #PredatorsOfNorthAmerica #AnimalHybrids #wolf #wildlife #NatureDocumentary #biology #UrbanCoyote #CityEcology #AnimalsInCities #extinction #RangeExpansion #NatureVideo #WildlifeDocumentary #StanGehrt #AnimalGenetics #CanisLatrans #EasternCoyote #UrbanEcology #ApexPredator #rewilding #InvasiveSpecies #megafauna #carnivore #NorthAmericaWildlife