The Palmetto State is home to three species of furbearers you might mistake for a stray dog: coyotes, red foxes and gray foxes. All three are out roaming more than usual. Here’s how to tell the ...

Often you'll see birds and raccoons, but they remember previous springs when red foxes would steal newspapers from the neighborhood for their young kits to play with. But now coyotes have taken over.

Hybridization has similarly occurred between coyotes and red wolves in our southern states ... Scavenger animals in northern New York—foxes, fishers, marten, ravens and even golden eagles—benefit from ...