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Coyotes are being seen on the empty streets of San Francisco
- sreevisakh 7y agoHere is a rarely seen Malabar spotted civet roaming the streets of Kozhikode city in India: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_t9IC1s2tbk https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_t9IC1s2tbk . Endemic to Western ghats and critically endangered, most of us have only heard about it in books. Kozhikode along with the rest of India is currently in a lock-down. EDIT: It could be the small Indian civet instead. Needs someone to identify
- zmj 7y agoThere are mountain lions in downtown Boulder: https://twitter.com/mitchellbyars/status/1242110542317096960 https://twitter.com/mitchellbyars/status/1242110542317096960
- wglane 7y agoI see them pretty regularly running GGP.
- robdimarco 7y agoI saw one in GGP when I was running there a few months ago. Scared the hell out of this East Coaster!
- technothrasher 7y agoThose little guys are so cute. Our Eastern coyotes are about twice that size, having hybridized with timberwolves.
- joegahona 7y agoI wish the article contained more than 1 image of a coyote on a SF street. Nonetheless, very "12 Monkeys"-esque.
- avip 7y agoCoyotes are terrorizing the once inhabited city.
- DoreenMichele 7y agoIf you are a grown adult, coyotes aren't that dangerous or scary. They aren't very big. They will attack small pets and children that are alone, but they typically leave adult humans alone. I used to go for six mile walks in the High Desert for exercise. I routinely ran into coyotes. They never bothered me. I did tell my children to not go out alone at night. There had been two or three attacks on children in the previous five years. I have a dog phobia due to things that happened when I was about four years old. I'm not similarly afraid of coyotes. Of course, I wouldn't want to run into a large pack in the dark either. They can and will take down deer as a pack and did so sometimes within earshot of my tent when I was homeless. So, I mean, don't be stupidly cavalier, but lone coyotes are known to not be particularly dangerous to adult humans.
- thaumasiotes 7y ago> lone coyotes are known to not be particularly dangerous to adult humans This is an important qualifier; they are not always alone.
- DoreenMichele 7y agoYes. It probably bears repeating. The pandemic seems to be causing people to gloss over important details in comments. So thank you for pulling that out and highlighting it.
- daotoad 7y agoThey are riding dolphins through the crystal clear canals of Venice, hunting swans.
- avip 7y agoNo. Keep your fake news alert on max sensitivity these days. And possibly any day.
- jyrkesh 7y agoThis article literally cites dolphins in the Venice canals as fake news. Please read the article before you comment.
- mark-r 7y agoPlease turn up the sensitivity on your sarcasm detector.
- joejerryronnie 7y agoI believe HN shorts out when the sarcasm detector reaches about 30%
- jyrkesh 7y agoRIP. Apologies to OP
- outworlder 7y agoThis makes me very happy. I wonder if we could some day come up with some way to coexist with nature instead of blindly blanketing it with asphalt and concrete.
- chrisco255 7y agoCoyotes have already done an excellent job of coexisting with humans. They are one of the most successful species at adapting to human civilization. Pigeons, rats, roaches, etc. also quite successful.
- outworlder 7y ago> Coyotes have already done an excellent job of coexisting with humans I have only seen them being 'successful' if are large tracts of land around the cities that they can live at. Would they be able to live in, say, Manhattan? If not, as we expand the urban sprawl, they might become less successful... And coyotes are not the only species we should be worried about.
- chrisco255 7y agoManhattan is quite the edge case. It's one of the densest areas on the planet. I don't think that's a good model for development. Sprawl in the U.S. is more of the suburban variety and there coyotes do thrive quite well. They don't even need large tracts of land. They are fully capable of burrowing in little pockets of green space. See: https://urbancoyoteresearch.com/coyote-info/general-information-about-coyotes https://urbancoyoteresearch.com/coyote-info/general-informat...
- frosted-flakes 7y agoThat is such a neat website, and very interesting research.
- perl4ever 7y agoI thought the whole point of complaints about "sprawl" was that suburbs are bad and "urbs" are good. The suburbs are prime habitat for a lot of creatures including coyotes, especially because they don't have to worry about hunters.
- simonw 7y agoThe first time I saw a Coyote was in broad daylight up on Corona Heights in San Francisco. I'd never even seen a photo of one before, but I knew what it was straight away because its face looked like Wile E Coyote!
- ModernMech 7y agoYeah, I used to see them out there in that area too, they love it up there.
- baybal2 7y agoA disturbing story I heard when living in Russia in my childhood was that if you see a wild animal in the city, it means that beasts have ran out of trash and waste to eat, and are getting more riskier, and you shouldn't be coming close to them unless you want to be eaten.
- pmiller2 7y agoThere's truth to that in the sense that most wild animals will avoid humans if they can. And, if you can get close to them, there's often something else wrong (maybe the animal is sick, etc.).
- eskaytwo 7y agoYes, we saw this quite strikingly with the koalas in Australia during the recent bushfires.
- gerdesj 7y agoYou have some rather bigger beasties running around in Russia than I'll ever see here. I live in a small town in the SW of England, UK called Yeovil pop. 45,000. We have loads of foxes and badgers. Foxes seem roughly comparable to a coyote. I regularly see foxes here and not just in the parks. I do live rather close to a lot of park as well as the town so that helps. Sadly the badgers in Somerset seem to be suicidal and shoot themselves before jumping over hedges into a road. That's before, during and after an official cull to try and avert TB in cattle. Science ... lol.
- choward 7y agoI wonder how many peoples cats are missing right now.
- pl0x 7y agoPlease donot feed them.
- lflux 7y agoI've seen a coyote dart across the street in SoMa in the middle of rush hour. Nature's a bit closer than we think.
- fillskills 7y agoYou mean the rest of nature. We are also nature :)
- travisjungroth 7y agoWhat do you call a place with no 7/11?
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- kortilla 7y agoA food desert. :)
- snuxoll 7y agoBoise, ID - the only one we had closed down some time ago.
- BigChiefSmokem 7y agoClean? I like this game.
- perl4ever 7y agoIn the late 90s, I was going to college in northern Arizona, and had summer tires on my car when there was a rare snowfall. A coyote decided to cross the road in front of me, I wouldn't say "dart", but more expecting me to slow for it. When I demonstrated I had no traction by touching my brakes, it reacted to the sound of my tires sliding by promptly stepping out of the way.
- mytailorisrich 7y agoHere in England we don't have coyotes but just today I saw a pheasant walking down a deserted road nearby. It looked slightly confused.
- webignition 7y agoIs that unusual where you are? Over the past few years I've seen the odd pheasant within ten minutes walk of the centre of Basingstoke as well as the occasional deer sprinting across the ring road dual carriageway. Hopefully we all get to see more wildlife as life quietens down a little and, at least in the UK, we can be sure not to encounter anything even remotely dangerous.
- mytailorisrich 7y agoWe're not far from the edge of town and the fields, and it's common to see pheasants out there but not where I saw that one, which was quite a distance from there.
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- diggan 7y agoThe same thing is happening in Barcelona but with boars coming from the forests outside the city, seems to have no correlation with the lock-down/quarantine that is happening (streets of Barcelona are basically empty right now, except for ambulances, police and delivery services) https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/nov/04/wild-boar-sighted-near-barcelona-city-centre-looking-for-food https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/nov/04/wild-boar-sigh...
- joshuamorton 7y agoFun story about this. I once did a night "hike" up to Tibidabo. This wasn't organized or anything, just a few friends and I took a commuter train out of the city to the base of the mountain, semi-stranding ourselves. Then we walked up to the top, slept outside on the hilltop and enjoyed the sunrise the next morning. Tibidabo has an amusement park and a cathedral, so there was a night security guard who was very confused by the 4-5 tourists hanging out outside his gate at night, although he didn't complain much. The relevant bit here though is that on the walk up the mountain, we saw more than one wild boar out on the roadside, including a whole family. It was unexpected and frightening.
- babakd 7y agoJoey?
- joshuamorton 7y agoNo, my name is pretty obvious ;)
- sulam 7y agoMort?
- evgen 7y agoI think he is going by the name Ken Adams in this story ;)
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- mighty_bander 7y agoCoyotes come out after dark. It takes about 20 minutes for them to figure out people aren't around. Mangy jerks. Once I was walking through some brush in a city park in Calgary, AB and a siren went by. The whole area around me lit up with howling. Little unnerving, although coyotes are pretty cowardly out West (in the East they've interbred with wolves and will once in a blue moon take a hiker down).
- cmrdporcupine 7y agoHere in southern Ontario the coyotes are still pretty cowardly. I live rural (but close to town) and I might see them from 100 feet away before they skitishly run off. Except for one time there was one that brazenly marched down our driveway in broad daylight. Not sure how long that one lived for, never saw it again... The ones in town are a bit less shy. What's strange is last night our chickens were attacked by an eastern red fox. Usually they're super skittish and shy around humans, but as I (along with 3 other people) was rescuing my rooster from under a car, this one kept circling around, thinking he was going to get his prey back from us. Not scared at all. (FWIW roosters are amazing animals... this one seems to have charged the fox to get it to drop one of the hens, and then fought with it and decoyed it away from the hens a good 200 feet down to the road, then it hid under a car of some people who passed by and witnessed this all happening and stopped. All birds survived, just missing some feathers. Rooster gets lots of treats today.)
- BostonFern 7y agoGood boy!
- phaser 7y agoHere in Santiago, Chile, where many neighborhoods are in complete lockdown, a wild Puma was seen roaming the streets[1]. This was their natural habitat before the city was established, and many of them still live in the mountains, which are not far from the busiest streets of Santiago. https://www.france24.com/en/20200324-wild-puma-captured-in-deserted-chile-capital https://www.france24.com/en/20200324-wild-puma-captured-in-d...
- RandallBrown 7y agoSeattle has occasionally gotten mountain lions and bears in the city. https://www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news/discovery-parks-cougar-is-captured-released-into-wild/ https://www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news/discovery-parks-co...
- tjr225 7y agoI used to live in Olympia before living in Seattle and wash pretty shocked to see a coyote casualty walking down the street one morning when I was drinking coffee. Turns out it is pretty normal.
- s0rce 7y agoLA as well.
- dredmorbius 7y agoSimilarly Palo Alto, for years now: https://www.paloaltoonline.com/news/2004/05/17/mountain-lion-shot-and-killed https://www.paloaltoonline.com/news/2004/05/17/mountain-lion...
- ComputerGuru 7y agoThe same animal also taking advantage of the lockdown in Boulder, CO: https://www.reddit.com/r/aww/comments/fos9k0/mountain_lions_moving_back_into_boulder_during/ https://www.reddit.com/r/aww/comments/fos9k0/mountain_lions_...
- joejerryronnie 7y agoI live south of San Jose up against the mountains and our neighbors will post pictures once in a while of mountain lions drinking out of the swimming pools in their back yards. It’s more common in bad drought years.
- jrockway 7y agoThere are also some unconfirmed sightings of mountain lions. Probably.
- krick 7y agoAre you being literal or is it a reference to something? This sounds awfully familiar, but I cannot remember where I heard that.
- aeturnum 7y agoThe "earth is healing, we are the virus" narrative is overblown (and ecofascistic), but it's good to remember that humans are not special. We push other life forms out of our spaces, but many of those life forms continue a marginal existence. The end of humanity would not be the end of life and being reminded of that is a useful check on our tendency to put ourselves at the center of "the" world (instead of just the center of our world).
- RcouF1uZ4gsC 7y agoOur concept of “world” includes and subsumes any animal concept of “world”. Chimpanzees may think of local forest as “the world” but our “world” includes their forest. This, compared to any other non-human species on earth, we are the center of “the” world. In addition, our actions determine the fates of non-human species much more than their actions our fates.
- philwelch 7y agoTaking comfort in the potential extinction of humanity because at least there would be some non-sapient critters still around strikes me as an odd value system. Couldn't you make the analogous argument that the extinction of all life on Earth would be fine since it would have absolutely no effect on the vast majority of the universe?
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- resu_nimda 7y agoMajor extinction events have historically paved the way for new and interesting forms of life, including humans.
- yters 7y agoWhat if humans are a unique higher lifeform that will never be matched in the history of the universe?
- unlinked_dll 7y agoBit weird to see them in broad daylight, but we definitely have an urban coyote problem in the US. I swear the most common "crazy story from my vet" is the soccer mom that rescues a litter of puppies that she found on her run...
- xsmasher 7y agoProbably something they heard from another vet, who heard from another vet - sounds very close to the classic "Mexican Pet" urban legend. https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/the-mexican-pet/ https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/the-mexican-pet/
- FpUser 7y agoToronto for example was full of Coyotes last summer. No need for COVID to see them around. I saw quite a few on my own.
- as-j 7y agoAs an early morning runner in SF, I see coyotes in SF every week or two, including at Twin peaks as mentioned in the article. One morning in Golden Gate Park I warned a few people walkings dogs since there were about 4 coyotes around the corner. From my first hand experience, I'd assume any wooded area with cover in SF has a coyote living there.
- etrk 7y agoCoyote sightings were a regular occurrence on my NextDoor feed long before the quarantine.
- justin66 7y agoNextdoor is essentially a nationwide service for people to share coyote sightings in their neighborhood. No matter where they are, people won't shut up about them.
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- jedberg 7y agoI grew up in LA and while I don't live there anymore I've seen pictures from the last few days. Never in my life have I seen such blue skies over LA. And my parents don't ever remember it being clearer either. At least this shows what some stricter climate controls can do to both the climate and the economy and the tradeoffs involved.
- kortilla 7y agoKeep in mind stricter climate controls wouldn’t even hurt the economy this bad. A harsh carbon tax on all fossil fuels in exchange for COVID-19 to disappear to be gone would be a welcome relief to the economy.
- geddy 7y agoWith ya on this one, but what kinds of problems would this cause for people who don't have another option to get to work? Un-doing this ridiculous culture of driving 40 minutes to work will take a lot time. Still, I wholeheartedly agree on the concept. I'm curious as to how to fix the followup problems that will occur from fixing the primary problem.
- novok 7y agoInvert zoning, say housing must be built with businesses, and it must be mixed together.
- closeparen 7y agoThis helps, but it seems vanishingly unlikely that both spouses will always be able to find good jobs in the same neighborhood for as long as their kids are in school.
- Ericson2314 7y agoPublic transportation. They don't need to both be 5 minutes walk away
- mark-r 7y agoI live about a mile from the Minnesota river, and I see coyotes occasionally. Once right in our back yard, I even got a picture.
- bifrost 7y agoI live on Mt Davidson and I see em running down the street at least once a week...
- thedance 7y agoIn Berkeley we have these, plus bobcats, foxes, and mountain lions. One of the interesting things about California is that even though humans have stepped all over the ecology of the American West, that hasn't been going on long enough to extirpate literally every wild species. Compared to places that have been settled for 1000s of years, California can seem wild.
- pjbk 7y agoWhen I was living in Daly City I saw them regularly if I went for a night walk in the Lake Merced area close to the Olympic or Thornton park. I once went pass one on the other side of the street, he glanced at me but was more interested in inspecting a trash bin. They usually ran away. Plenty of raccoons too. For some reason those are more comfortable around people. One night I met one walking towards me on the sidewalk. First I thought it was a fat cat. I stepped aside as he strolled by me, he stopped, gave me a greeting stare and proceeded on his business.
- marklacey 7y agoThere have been several reports going back at least a few months of a coyote wandering around Noe Valley at dusk, I think around 25th & Sanchez or that general area. So this isn’t new although perhaps more are venturing out for longer periods of time due to the streets being emptier.
- emptybits 7y agoHere in Vancouver there are social media accounts of cougar tracks on a beach and in a park. Unconfirmed. Unlike coyotes here (common)[1], or bears and deer (occasional), cougars are virtually unheard of near populated areas so this is notable if true. Yes, yes, cue the "preying on young men in bars" jokes... :-P [1] http://stanleyparkecology.ca/conservation/co-existing-with-coyotes/coyote-sightings-map/ http://stanleyparkecology.ca/conservation/co-existing-with-c...
- cleandreams 7y agoA security camera in SF caught a cougar on video a few years ago.
- eweise 7y agoWe've had quite a few cougar sightings up here in the north bay but its rarer now with all the watering holes closed.
- bhewes 7y agoAh they finally made it in that city. I would see them often walking around late at night in the Silverlake and Los Feliz neighborhoods in Los Angeles.
- perl4ever 7y agoIn suburban upstate NY, coyotes, deer, and turkeys are pretty normal for many years. They wander across your lawn, eat your shrubbery and your pets, and generally seem to be well aware of where hunting is and isn't permitted. ...I showed a snapshot of a "coyote" once to someone who insisted it was actually a wolf.
- telesilla 7y agoThere are large flocks of pigeons flying around the streets all day, like I've never seen before. I wonder where they get their food now the terraces and plazas are empty.
- irrational 7y agoI live in the PNW. Every few days someone gets on nextdoor.com freaking out about having seen a coyote. My response is always the same. They were here long before humans were ever here and will still be here long after we are gone.
- zentiggr 7y ago> ... in the PWN I think we all got PWNed this time.
- irrational 7y agoHa ha! Fixed ;-)
- jdminhbg 7y ago> They were here long before humans were ever here and will still be here long after we are gone. Actually, they weren't, in the PNW. Coyotes were restricted to central North America until 1700; when European settlers extirpated wolves, coyotes moved in to take their place. See: https://urbancoyoteresearch.com/coyote-info/north-american-distribution https://urbancoyoteresearch.com/coyote-info/north-american-d...
- ChuckMcM 7y agoJust wait until the mountain lions and brown bears start prowling around looking for snacks :-) For folks further out into the 'human/wildlife interface' as the Forest Service calls it (or the 'cafeteria' as I call it) sightings of all wildlife is up. Some friends who retired out in Brentwood[1] (not the LA neighborhood, the town outside of Livermore CA) They now have nearly continual deer presence and multiple daily sightings of Coyote and Fox around mid-morning and dusk. They have heard mountain lions but haven't seen one yet, and no bears so far. [1] https://www.google.com/maps/place/Brentwood,+CA+94513/@37.9077743,-121.9017665,10.08z/data=!4m5!3m4!1s0x808ff999f087c8cd:0x7e19835b56d29a02!8m2!3d37.931868!4d-121.6957863 https://www.google.com/maps/place/Brentwood,+CA+94513/@37.90...
- russell_h 7y agoFor what it’s worth, there aren’t thought to be any brown bears left in California; the closest ones are in Washington or maybe Idaho.
- thaumaturgy 7y agoThis is largely a matter of local lexical confusion. In the US, "brown bear" can mean two things: a black bear with a brown coat (ursus americanus), or a grizzly (ursus arctos horribilis, which makes me giggle every time). Across the pond, "brown bear" probably means ursus arctos arctos, a cousin of our own more foul-tempered beasties. But when a Californian says "brown bear", usually they just mean a brown-coated black bear (https://bear.org/black-bear-color-phases/ https://bear.org/black-bear-color-phases/).
- look_lookatme 7y ago> But when a Californian says "brown bear", usually they just mean a brown-coated black bear (https://bear.org/black-bear-color-phases/ https://bear.org/black-bear-color-phases/). Well that's confusing. Whenever I hear brown bear (in hunting contexts, etc) I assume grizzly.
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- macawfish 7y agoLast year I saw one at night in San Diego walking down the boulevard. It trotted right past me like 5ft away!
- hadlock 7y agoI've seen coyotes in Buena Vista, and in october, Anza Vista (the hill just west of lower fillmore district). Seems like there is plenty of food in the area. In Dallas, Texas I would regularly see coyotes in the park. Coyotes are generally quite meek around humans. You weigh 150 lbs and are 5' tall (or taller) they are perhaps 70 lbs wet and 26" at the shoulder. If you so much as make eye contact with them, they'll generally leave immediately.
- gruglife 7y agoI live down by west portal and have been seeing coyotes long before the shelter in place happened. Probably started a year or so ago.
- Kye 7y agoThey're not empty. They're full of coyotes.
- spodek 7y agoWhat we think of wild nature is nothing compared to what used to exist. Schools of fish so dense they would bring boats to a halt in the middle of the Atlantic. North America had more large wildlife than Africa. Whales as far as the eye could see all day long. Walruses in the Thames in London. I did a couple video essays on what I learned from a wonderful book The Once and Future World: My video essays: https://youtu.be/ZLAvBiols2Y https://youtu.be/ZLAvBiols2Y and https://youtu.be/U4NZdciDozI https://youtu.be/U4NZdciDozI The book: https://www.amazon.com/Once-Future-World-Nature-Could/dp/0307362183 https://www.amazon.com/Once-Future-World-Nature-Could/dp/030...
- subsubzero 7y agoWhat amazed me was after reading Unbroken (WWII novel set in the pacific) was the incredible amount of sharks in hawaii and the surrounding islands. A family member who was in the pacific theatre backed this up. Shark schools so dense that sailors would be attacked after they fell in. This was barely 70 years ago so alot has changed in terms of animal population.
- koheripbal 7y agohttps://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/the-worst-shark-attack-in-history-25715092/ https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/the-worst-shark-attac...
- akiselev 7y agoThank you. Despite being in the midst of a pandemic, that is the worst thing I've read all week. It looks well cited, although I don't have the heart to check the sources...
- joejerryronnie 7y agoQuint, the old shark hunter from the movie Jaws was said to have survived the USS Indianapolis (the character not the actor)
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- OkGoDoIt 7y agoI walk a lot all over San Francisco, including at night. I’ve been seeing coyotes in the streets for at least a year now. Several times in North Beach, a couple times in the dogpatch/China basin area by the ballpark, etc. My phone doesn’t take great photos in low light, but I posted what photos I can on my Twitter [1] and Instagram and Facebook to try and get the word out. At this point I kind of just assumed everyone realized they are around. [1] https://twitter.com/okgodoit/status/1082425011388829696 https://twitter.com/okgodoit/status/1082425011388829696
- zndr 7y agoI live near twin peaks and seem them A LOT, the first pic in the article is on TP on the road to the top. They are frequently out during the day, one almost got hit by the 37 I was on a few months back.
- PopeDotNinja 7y agoI was walking around the Marina in SF about 15 years ago at night. I heard a rustling in a front yard and stopped to look. It took me a second to focus on what I was looking at in the dark. It was a skunk in a defensive posture with it's tail raised. I slowly backed away, and fortunately didn't get sprayed, although that would have made for a better story.
- tnolet 7y agoI had a similar encounter 10 years ago around 24th street and Mission. Was a raccoon though. Very cute one too and quite fat.
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- yellowapple 7y agoNot surprised one bit. I definitely heard them (but never saw them) when I was living in Daly City. Also once nearly hit a deer while I was driving along Skyline Blvd, speaking of unexpected wildlife. Coyotes pop up pretty regularly in Sacramento, too (which is somewhat unsurprising given the proximity to farmland and other open areas, but somewhat surprising given the degree to which Sacramento's suburbs sprawl and would be expected to push wildlife further away from Sacramento itself).
- thdrdt 7y agoThere are multiple documentaries about "What if people suddenly leave earth?". All those movies show how fast nature will take over. Within 10-14 days animals will be walking everywhere. So I am not surprised we see animals moving into cities. And it is also true a lot of animals are already around but are very shy. So we don't notice them but they are already around.
- elliekelly 7y agoCan you recommend a good one? (Or two? I’ve suddenly got lots of time this weekend...)
- thdrdt 7y agoMaybe this one: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aftermath:_Population_Zero https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aftermath:_Population_Zero
- beambot 7y agoHow about critically-endangered animals reappearing -- e.g. the Malabar large-spotted civet: https://www.ibtimes.sg/this-critically-endangered-animal-was-spotted-road-amid-covid-19-lockdown-india-video-41806 https://www.ibtimes.sg/this-critically-endangered-animal-was...
- 40four 7y agoThis is really cool! (but not unexpected) On the east coast, there is a species called ‘Coywolves’. They are a hybrid of pure coyotes and timber or grey wolves. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coywolf https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coywolf They are known to be incredibly smart and stealthy. They are adept at adapting to, and living in urban environments. Like domestic dogs, they understand line of sight, as in, they are keenly aware of what direction a person is looking. This helps them remain unseen, while surviving in very close proximity to humans. We know coyotes are living in virtually every corner of the US at this point. I wonder if these are pure bloods, coywolves that have migrated to the west coast, or maybe a new hybrid or sub species? PBS Nature has an amazing documentary describing the Coywolf. Check it out if you have PBS Passport! https://www.pbs.org/wnet/nature/coywolf-meet-the-coywolf/8605/ https://www.pbs.org/wnet/nature/coywolf-meet-the-coywolf/860... https://www.pbs.org/wnet/nature/meet-the-coywolf-infographic-a-field-guide-to-the-coywolf-or-eastern-coyote/8663/ https://www.pbs.org/wnet/nature/meet-the-coywolf-infographic...
- williesleg 7y agoBetter than all the Mad Shitters
- bariswheel 7y agoI see coyotes up on Bernal Heights park all the time. Harmless, they tend to stay in their lane.
- riantogo 7y agoSeeing nature flourish as humans pull back... I wonder if we are the virus
- abraae 7y agoThere's no need to wonder. Humans are. Right now the planet is drawing a great big sigh of relief. Yet we have politicians that are just busting to get things ramped back up to the crazed consumption-driven frenzy that we treated as normal until a few weeks ago.
- pascalxus 7y agoI wonder how much of this has to do with the lack of development in the bay area. With a huge amount of undeveloped area all over the bay area, there's probably a lot of places for coyotes to live, since so much living space has been zoned and allocated for them and other wild life. It's too bad, we're not this kind to human beings.
- ComputerGuru 7y agoSo kind of you to leave them a smidge of their former territory.
- ComputerGuru 7y agoThe city of Chicago employees coyotes for rat control. They’re seen all over the metro area and have become familiar faces.
- djsumdog 7y agoThey use coyotes? I thought it was just cats. Huh ... I guess some of those photos of them on the street this week may not have been of wild coyotes like I thought.
- ComputerGuru 7y agoMainly feral cats but there are rats too big for them to go after. The coyote project started around ten years ago, it’s been a great success: https://cei.org/blog/chicago-coyotes-control-mice-and-rats https://cei.org/blog/chicago-coyotes-control-mice-and-rats
- mmhsieh 7y agoDo not coyotes bring in ticks and all the tick-borne diseases as well? perhaps public health priority #2 is to humanely remove these animals sooner than later.
- Igelau 7y agoI thought that was deer.
- wglb 7y agoChicago has lots of urban coyotes. https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.wbez.org/shows/wbez-news/chicago-coyotes/306a6c78-34ba-47c0-a02c-b0f0086b64ec/amp https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.wbez.org/shows/wbez-news/ch...
- djsumdog 7y agoYep, the Chicago subreddit has a photo of one wandering around this week. We also occasionally get deer that make it into the city; usually walking down some of the long bike trails from Skokie.
- rocky1138 7y agoIt's not just San Francisco. I was driving onto the 406 in here Niagara (Canada) and I had to avoid one that had died after being hit by a car. In my entire life I've never seen coyote road kill.
- fortran77 7y agoThey need to be careful not to step in human poop.
- kingkawn 7y agoFinally some good news
- sn41 7y agoPerhaps appropriate: The famous poem by Sara Teasdale, about a different context, which also lent its name to a short story by Ray Bradbury: There will come soft rains -------------------------- There will come soft rains and the smell of the ground, And swallows calling with their shimmering sound; And frogs in the pools singing at night, And wild plum-trees in tremulous white; Robins will wear their feathery fire Whistling their whims on a low fence-wire; And not one will know of the war, not one Will care at last when it is done. Not one would mind, neither bird nor tree If mankind perished utterly; And Spring herself, when she woke at dawn, Would scarcely know that we were gone.
- Igelau 7y agoLet's not romanticize this too much. Coyotes are literally all over North America, so it's not like they've suddenly reappeared or something. We also accidentally let them overpopulate by exterminating so much of the wolf population.
- svnpenn 7y agoOnce upon a time I was of the mind To lay your burden down And leave you where you stood
- WalterBright 7y agoI live roughly in the middle of the Seattle metropolitan area, and coyotes, deer, eagles, wabbits, etc., are a common sight. Last year a mom coyote and her 5 pups were often playing and hanging out in my front yard. (I didn't bother her and she didn't bother me, aside from stealing my Acme Rocket Sled.)
- zahreeley 7y agoIt’s irresponsible of how some have bad eating habnits which puts whole humanity in danger.
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- perfectstorm 7y agoThe other day I saw a video of a spotted Malabar civet walking through urban streets of Kerala, India. It is an endangered species https://twitter.com/DGrieshnak/status/1243077554224787457?s=20 https://twitter.com/DGrieshnak/status/1243077554224787457?s=...
- Justice4Yall 7y agoAnd I see thousands of storks flying on a deserted airport since few days.
- vinniejames 7y agoThis isn't all that rare, lots of coyotes live in the parks
- celias 7y agoStuff You Should Know did a podcast about coyotes recently https://www.iheart.com/podcast/105-stuff-you-should-know-26940277/episode/how-coyotes-work-58984374/ https://www.iheart.com/podcast/105-stuff-you-should-know-269...
- gator000 7y agoI sure want to believe the folks that flagged me are not into human sacrifice.