Greaves suspects that “Pizza Coyote” is a female, one who had pups earlier this year. But he doesn’t think that she was bringing the pizza to her pups, because they’re too old now and likely out hunting for themselves. “It was nearly half a pizza,” he said. “This has got to be for herself.”

http://www.newsweek.com/pizza-delivery-coyote-california-pizza-rat-735982

Moreover, several of OR-7’s earlier pups have built upon his legacy, as one pup traveled to Northern California, establishing the beginnings of a wolf population there.

https://www.heraldandnews.com/news/local_news/where-is-oregon-s-most-famous-wolf-now/article_86e1c4d4-dfa4-573b-a9e3-0b63f4acfd0c.html

More and more people are routinely hearing coyotes yip, bark and howl in their backyards or in other urban and suburban settings. In fact, Canis latrans, the scientific name for coyotes, means “barking dog.”

http://www.sfchronicle.com/opinion/openforum/article/Coyotes-howl-to-chat-with-their-neighbors-12442786.php

What’s more: Berkeleyans are reporting coyotes sniffing around their back doors and trotting down their sidewalks, not just in the hills, but in Central Berkeley, West Berkeley, and other parts of town.

So people understandably ask: What are coyotes doing around town? And can city-dwellers peaceably coexist with these native wild “song dogs?”

http://www.berkeleyside.com/2017/12/21/new-dogs-town-coyotes-expert-camilla-fox-co-existing/

When Chris Lowe first saw the buck stoop to lick the small, silver-speckled fox, he thought his eyes might be playing tricks on him. He’d just gotten back from a run on Santa Catalina, a remote Southern Californian island where he studies sharks, and came upon the two animals in the scrub. Mule deer and island foxes, the rascally miniature descendants of gray foxes, are everyday sights on Catalina’s grassy hills. But to see them nuzzling was downright weird.

https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2017/10/why-is-this-deer-licking-this-fox/543621/

Palo Alto police are seeking information from anyone who might know who killed and partially skinned a coyote in Arastradero Preserve.

Police do not know why or how the coyote was killed, but it appeared to have been trapped. Police are considering the incident a case of animal cruelty.

https://paloaltoonline.com/news/2017/12/29/police-seek-coyote-killer