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The Coyote and the Sequential Occupants of the Los Angeles Basin
Author(s) -
Gill Don
Publication year - 1970
Publication title -
american anthropologist
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.51
H-Index - 85
eISSN - 1548-1433
pISSN - 0002-7294
DOI - 10.1525/aa.1970.72.4.02a00060
Subject(s) - urbanization , canis , structural basin , geography , predator , group living , archaeology , ethnology , history , socioeconomics , environmental ethics , ecology , predation , sociology , biology , paleontology , philosophy
This study traces how the coyote (Canis latrans) has interacted with the differing culture groups which sequentially occupied the Los Angeles basin. The coyote's relationships with the aboriginal, the Spaniard, and the early American are compared, as well as the variance in which it was perceived by each group. Since the coyote survived urbanization to become the major predator within the Los Angeles basin, the present attitudes of urban dwellers toward the animal are also briefly assessed. The coyote's capacity to survive is being aided by an increasing public awareness of the aesthetic value of wild nature, thus its survival within one of North America's largest urban areas is relatively assured .