WHY DID THE COYOTE SURVIVE? AN ICE AGE STORY FROM THE LA BREA TAR PITS

Coyote, Canis latransDire wolves vanished. Sabre-toothed cats vanished. American lions, western camels, native horses and giant ground sloths disappeared from the region.Coyotes survived.They survived the climatic upheaval at the end of the Pleistocene, the collapse of large-animal communities and the loss of many of the predators and prey species that had shared their world. Later, they