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Strange coyote behavior recorded in Canada
earth chronicles ^ | 8/24/21 | EC

Posted on 08/25/2021 10:17:23 AM PDT by Roman_War_Criminal

Vancouver coyotes attack people in Stanley Park, bite their own tails, and biologists don’t understand why

Vancouver coyote experts are using every tactic possible – not including catapults and dynamite – to try to solve the mystery of why these animals have attacked dozens of people in Stanley Park this year.

There may not be more than a dozen coyotes living in a four-square-mile park in Vancouver, but they have provincial and city employees chasing their tails in search of answers as to why the animals are so aggressive.

At the same time, the call to rid the park of coyotes is growing louder after nearly 40 cases have been reported since December 2020 of animals biting or showing aggression toward everyone from seniors to toddlers.

Paul Curtis, a professor and wildlife expert at Cornell University in Ithaca, N.Y., has spent decades studying coyote aggression. His research, conducted in New York City parks 15 years ago, showed that people feeding animals that are territorial cause most aggression.

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TOPICS: Outdoors; Science; Society; Weird Stuff
KEYWORDS: animals; canada; coyote; coyotebehavior; strange; vancouver; wildlife
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To: Salamander

No, a coyote was crossing my yard a while back and I thought to scare it off, by running out and yelling and waving my arms to scare it.

Instead of it running off, it stopped and bared its teeth and growled low and long until I stopped and stood still.

It then just continued on it way at its own previous pace............


21 posted on 08/25/2021 10:35:33 AM PDT by Red Badger (Homeless veterans camp in the streets while illegal aliens are put up in hotels.....................)
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To: Roman_War_Criminal

Thermal scopes on .17 cal rifles, problem solved.


22 posted on 08/25/2021 10:35:54 AM PDT by lurk ( )
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To: Roman_War_Criminal

COVID


23 posted on 08/25/2021 10:36:40 AM PDT by tnlibertarian
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To: PGR88
Definitely Global Warming

Yes, you beat me to it. 😀😂

24 posted on 08/25/2021 10:36:47 AM PDT by Mark17 (Air Traffic Controller, retired. Father of US Air Force 1st Lieutenant, and trained combat pilot )
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To: Mark17

Wild animals? Rabies? Global Warming...yeah, that’s the ticket.


25 posted on 08/25/2021 10:40:16 AM PDT by salmon76 (How many people would still be alive today if the Democrats didn't steal the 2020 election?)
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To: Roman_War_Criminal
Grab a hint:


26 posted on 08/25/2021 10:43:23 AM PDT by Jim Noble (The nation cannot be saved until the GOP is destroyed)
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To: Roman_War_Criminal

Interbreeding with wolves?


27 posted on 08/25/2021 10:46:40 AM PDT by kaktuskid
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To: Roman_War_Criminal

I don’t know about coyotes, but when my dog suddenly starts biting at his tail it means he needs a fresh flea treatment.

Pretty sure the other aggression comes from people not paying the food Danegeld when they pass through the coyote’s territory. They are a thuggish vermin.


28 posted on 08/25/2021 10:49:14 AM PDT by Valpal1
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To: kaktuskid

Easier to catch a garbage pail day old hamburger than a baby bunny.


29 posted on 08/25/2021 10:51:28 AM PDT by Kozy (new age haruspex; "Everyone has a plan 'till they get punched in the mouth.")
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To: Roman_War_Criminal

I hate coyotes. Here in Illinois you can hunt coyotes pretty much all year round, subject to some local restrictions. Unfortunately, you can’t shoot them in populated areas. They are all over northern Illinois. There are also a great number of foxes in populated areas, but those are protected species. Early in the morning when I walk my dog we usually find carcasses of rabbits and squirrels that were a meal for a local fox or ‘yote.


30 posted on 08/25/2021 10:55:10 AM PDT by ought-six (Multiculturalism is national suicide, and political correctness is the cyanide capsule. )
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To: Salamander

I’ve got a couple of puncture scars from sticking my arm out to stop a pitbull from attacking my dog. Its owner couldn’t believe I didn’t sue him.


31 posted on 08/25/2021 10:56:09 AM PDT by gundog (It was a bright cold day in April, and the clocks were striking thirteen. )
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To: Roman_War_Criminal

Run for your lives...they’ve got Covid!!


32 posted on 08/25/2021 10:58:12 AM PDT by mass55th ("Courage is being scared to death, but saddling up anyway." ~~ John Wayne )
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To: z3n
LOL. You confused strange coyote with 'genius' coyote.


33 posted on 08/25/2021 10:58:40 AM PDT by Magnum44 (...against all enemies, foreign and domestic...)
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To: Roman_War_Criminal

People are usually the problem. They are probably feeding them and getting as close to them as possible for a picture. The normally secretive wild animals then lose their fear of people.


34 posted on 08/25/2021 11:03:53 AM PDT by proud American in Canada ("Fear is a reaction; courage is a decision." Winston Churchill)
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To: Roman_War_Criminal

Covid


35 posted on 08/25/2021 11:06:30 AM PDT by maddog55 (The only thing systemic in America is the left's hatred of it!)
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To: IYAS9YAS

Yes, rabies could be a possibility. And that would be a real shame.

People had better make sure their domesticated animals have the rabies vaccine.

Does Covid appear in dogs or other animals? But I don’t think aggression is a symptom of Covid. Fatigue, perhaps.

The only Covid-related aggression I can think of is from the mask and vaccine police, busybodies, etc. Even the police; in Australia, about seven young men who were just drinking beer at a beach, without masks (they were outside, obviously), were actually handcuffed by the real police. I don’t what charges they’ll face, but Australia’s regulations on this are pretty draconian.


36 posted on 08/25/2021 11:09:36 AM PDT by proud American in Canada ("Fear is a reaction; courage is a decision." Winston Churchill)
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To: Red Badger

Something has a hold of my dog and I’m jumping in, damn the consequences.

We have “coyotes” here [they’re freaking big wolf hybrids] and they stalked my dad backwards down a stony ridge until he got to his truck and grabbed his rifle.

As soon as they saw the gun, they took off.

That is *scary* behavior.

/has a porchful of stabbing/slicing/hacking stuff, just in case


37 posted on 08/25/2021 11:19:01 AM PDT by Salamander ("Salamander has barbaric tendencies" /Gundog)
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To: gundog

You are my hero.

Last night there was a blind, 18 year old Boston terrier zig-zagging across three lanes of road with lunatics speeding towards him.

I stopped the car across two lanes, hit the flashers and ran out with a high powered flashlight, waving my arms and screaming.

Did anyone stop?

*no*

They shot out into the third lane, the wrong way and blew by us.
I finally snatched that dog up and ran for the car.

Took a while but I found his crying mom who was sure he’d been killed.

/I ain’t right in the head


38 posted on 08/25/2021 11:23:35 AM PDT by Salamander ("Salamander has barbaric tendencies" /Gundog)
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To: Roman_War_Criminal

I live in the boondocks and one sauntered thru my place this morning, like he owns the joint. Time to bait the live trap and relocate him - to coyote heaven. Wouldn’t be the first time.


39 posted on 08/25/2021 11:24:07 AM PDT by dainbramaged (You'll get nothing and like it!)
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To: kaktuskid

The insane DNR *brought* ours here, to “cull deer” [ha ha. calves, lambs and pets are easier meals]

Our “coyotes” are a mix of Eastern Wolves and coyote and they’re the size of GSDs and give no effs about people.

The first one I ever saw was dead along the highway and I stopped, thinking it was somebody’s poor German Shepherd and I was intending to get it way off the road and see if it had a collar so I could contact the owner.

Imagine my surprise.


40 posted on 08/25/2021 11:27:26 AM PDT by Salamander ("Salamander has barbaric tendencies" /Gundog)
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