It’s not just like there aren’t woods nearby.
More like Long Beach is the most unlikely place on the entire planet for wild animals. I’m series.
Pacific Ocean to the south. Pacific Ocean to the west. 75 miles of urban sprawl all the way up to Santa Monica to the north. Probably 100 miles of nothing but city to the northeast right through Compton and all the way up to. Heck all the way to Ontario. East; nothing but urban sprawl all the way out past Anaheim.
To the southeast, nothing but urban sprawl way out to Tustin.
I can’t think of a more unlikely place for coyotes, actually.
I guess there are some woods in Palos Verdes, which is sort of north of there. Not much though.
Those are some enterprising coyotes, that’s for sure.
Perhaps they carjacked somebody to get there.
Imagine that many garbage cans to raid, backyard pet dishes to clean out, not to mention backyard pets.
They must have thought they had died and gone to heaven...
They are highly adaptable, scavenger/hunter critters who blend in (looks like a dog at large to the untrained eye) well. Once humans quit hunting them, they get over their fear of humans pretty quickly and move in. They have even been seen in Central Park, NYC.