. The Canadian field-naturalist. Natural history; Sciences naturelles. Nortli Boston study Site Cape Cod p—*,. ,\ cape coa ^—>,. ^\study Site fVi. Figure 1. Map of the two Coyote study sites in eastern Massachusetts with polygons representing all of the towns in Massa- chusetts. Hingham, Massachusetts, about 15 km southeast of Boston. This one animal's movement would have caused male Coyotes in this study to go from an aver- age dispersal distance of to km. Thus, the male/female difference is not as important as the fact that this study is the first to document transient Coyote mo
. The Canadian field-naturalist. Natural history; Sciences naturelles. Nortli Boston study Site Cape Cod p—*,. ,\ cape coa ^—>,. ^\study Site fVi. Figure 1. Map of the two Coyote study sites in eastern Massachusetts with polygons representing all of the towns in Massa- chusetts. Hingham, Massachusetts, about 15 km southeast of Boston. This one animal's movement would have caused male Coyotes in this study to go from an aver- age dispersal distance of to km. Thus, the male/female difference is not as important as the fact that this study is the first to document transient Coyote movements in urbanized locals. Harrison (1992) found no sex specific statistical differences in Coyote dispersal in his Maine study, which might be expected for a monogamous species, but the maximal distance traveled (342 km) was by a female. Other studies corroborate these findings with individual females dispersing the farthest in their stud- ies, such as (vs. ) km in the western United States (Robinson and Grand 1958), km in Iowa (Andrews and Boggess 1978), 154 km in central Alber- ta (Nellis and Keith 1976), and 544 km from Riding Mountain National Park, Manitoba, to Saskatchewan, the furthest movement of a coyote on record (Carbyn and Paquet 1986). In fact, all long-distance movements were made by females except a male Coyote in Rosat- te's (2002) study that moved 320 km in an agricultur- al region of southern Ontario (the most urban of the study sites after mine). However, most researchers claimed that these long-distance dispersals were rare. The Boston Coyote likely exhibited a relatively straight-line dispersal through Boston and south to the edge of the Atlantic Ocean in southeastern Mas- sachusetts where either the ocean stopped her move- ment and/or she paired up with a mate (Figure 2; Way Table 1. Movements of transient (or nomadic) Coyotes in eastern Massachusetts Sex/Age (yr) Start of Conclusion Body weight Minimum distance Coyote ID dispersal' o
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