Social media reports of urban carnivores in the San Gabriel Valley of Los Angeles county

In this study, we analyzed 2,584 posts and comments on carnivore
sightings, human-carnivore interactions, and attitudes toward carnivores
via the neighborhood-based social media platform Nextdoor, focusing on 52
peri-urban neighborhoods near the Angeles National Forest in California.
We focused on the two most frequently discussed species: coyote (Canis
latrans) and American black bear (Ursus americanus). We then analyzed
social-ecological covariates as potential predictors of Nextdoor carnivore
reports, and also compared the sightings of these species to data
collected on the popular biodiversity logging application, iNaturalist.