Dr Stan Gehrt stops by The Wild Life to tell Jason all about the urban coyotes of Chicago. Find out why raccoons are destroying the Japanese countryside, how coyotes are so well-suited to city life, and hear the story of the first of almost 700 urban coyotes that Dr. Gehrt has tagged. Find Stan online: urbancoyoteresearch.com

Jason is an animal behaviour researcher, science communicator and wildlife-nerd extraordinaire whose work has been featured in countless science blogs and publications (Scientific American, Io9 and Conservation Magazine to name a few). Each episode of The Wild Life is essentially an in-depth conversation with someone whose work or interests revolve around animals or wildlife, on topics ranging from the science of animal behaviour and conservation biology, to animal ethics, the wildlife in your own backyard – and beyond.

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