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Dennis Murray

Aug 7, 2026

6:07
But so they're not, they are, these coyotes we know definitively are more feeding on food that's left out for them than they would be eating food feral cats or raccoons or squirrels.
6:22
Hard to say.
6:23
Someone would have to do a diet analysis to be certain, and it might vary from local pack to local pack or municipality to municipality.
6:32
Kind of depends on how accessible gardens are and fruit trees and domestic cats, rat populations, all of that sort of stuff.
6:40
And then to respond to your original question with respect to raccoons, I suspect that there's a much higher density of raccoons in the GTA than there is in...
6:51
in rural areas because there's just so much more food there for raccoons.
6:56
You know, the wild areas can't support such high densities of raccoons.
8:17
Are there any better practices that as a society, as we evolve into this new area where now we're living with coyotes that we should take?
5:37
Okay, but talk to me about the first part of what you just said there, that when they show no fear and are eating human food coming into our neighbourhoods, that is problematic behaviour too? I just want to be clear I understood that.
5:51
Well, that's a little bit of a grey zone.
5:53
So what we suggest in our paper is that municipalities need to collect the data to get a sense of how fearless the animal really is.
6:01
And there's also some...
6:04
There's some wiggle room there in terms of the municipality's comfort level.
6:09
So, for example, downtown Toronto, I suspect that people are a lot less comfortable with having a coyote hanging around the neighborhood than in a more rural area.
6:17
So that's something that needs to be factored in.
8:08
You're saying that relocation is not a good solution either.
4:05
around by English
4:06
people.
4:07
Whilst I had my cultural differences and when I was in the house, there were cultural differences.
4:12
I kind of grew up with a white English mindset.
4:14
which made life a lot easier when I came into policing.
4:17
And people that I see struggling in policing, people that have come in and haven't had alternative background, they're very much from their minority background and not really had much of that English way of living.
4:29
So I think that was a help, but also a hindrance because you stood out.

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37:37
And should I say just other things that we don't talk about when it comes to men that we need to talk about and understand more?

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