The Times podcast: Coyotes go urban; humans freak out

In June, residents lined up at a Manhattan Beach City Council meeting to voice their concerns about a predator roaming their streets, terrorizing them and killing their pets: coyotes. They’re an important part of the American West, but suburbanites are now campaigning for their wholesale annihilation. But is there another way, a way to live peacefully together?

Today we examine this controversy.

Host: Gustave Arellano

Guests: LA Times reporter Louis Sahagún

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