Human-coyote (Canis latrans) interaction in Canadian urban parks and green space: Preliminary findings from a media-content analysis
Bibliographic record
Abstract
The coyote (Canis latrans) is a highly adaptable apex carnivore that provides a critical ecological function in urban ecosystems.Habituation of coyotes results in behavioural changes which can lead to human-wildlife conflict.Understanding human awareness, values and attitudes towards coyotes, and the potential for human-coyote conflict, is essential to managing for effective ecological function of urban protected areas.A highly charged debate over coyotes and urban park management often plays out in the media, especially after a public report of a negative encounter.We conducted a content analysis of 215 primary articles from the print media (1995 -2008) that focused on coyotes in urban parks and green space.We identified the types (i.e., coyote versus human or pet) and frequency of interactions, we summarized wound descriptions for pets versus humans, and we compared the type and frequency of incidents by human demographic.We also detailed the relative positive versus negative content of articles, the common descriptors of coyotes, the dominant concerns or effects arising from the reported conflict, and the various management responses to the interaction.The paper presents preliminary results of the analysis within a human-wildlife conflict framework and provides recommendations for urban park management.
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame distilled prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.
Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.007 | 0.000 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one teacher head, not a consensus.
How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".