SYDNEY, N.S. — It’s been 13 years since Taylor Mitchell was attacked and killed by coyotes in Cape Breton Highlands National Park and the tragedy that ...
Study lead Stanley Gehrt, professor of wildlife ecology at Ohio State University, said while that type of vicious, deadly attack on a human is rare, the danger and the nature of"The biggest takeaway is that these kinds of extreme attacks are going to be rare.
“Severe environmental conditions create severe conflicts: A novel ecological pathway to extreme coyote attacks on humans” was published late last month in the British Ecological Society’s “Journal of Applied Ecology." The next morning his voice mailbox was full and Gehrt would travel to Cape Breton in spring 2010 and speak with people who had been on site in the aftermath of the attack with permission from Mitchell’s mother, Emily.Gehrt said he reported to Mitchell’s mother what he thought happened to cause her daughter’s death.
Initially, in reaction to the tragedy, there was public speculation that people feeding coyotes or coyotes getting access to human food contributed to them not being fearful of humans. The study didn’t find access to human food to be the cause.
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