Posted on 06/06/2007 5:40:36 PM PDT by george76
The handful of coyotes that call the Presidio home are still happy, healthy and wild for one main reason: They still fear humans. Experts hope that will be the case for the timid animals now living in Golden Gate Park and Bernal Heights.
There has been a flurry of coyote sightings in The City in the last few days, and officials are hoping to quickly educate the public before a rare opportunity turns sour. Experts say it’s possible for coyotes and humans to coexist, as the animals pose no threat to humans who leave them alone.
“It’s our job as inhabitants of this city — and it’s appropriate that our city is named after a patron saint of animals — to respect them,” ...
up to three coyotes have been spotted together at one time. The theory is that the animals came over the Golden Gate Bridge, which Raffa said has become somewhat of a wildlife corridor.
(Excerpt) Read more at examiner.com ...
Training took almost 3 months to get the bird to reliably come back to the fist. Most of that training was initially done inside our double garage.
I'm working down in my basement this evening. I just noticed that the cage I just described is on the floor between my desk and the unfinished wall.
That is very impressive. Good for her.
use to have a nesting pair of red tails in my front yard, wayyyyyyy up in the tree. It was very difficult to se the nest.
Actually coyotes are becoming more acclimated to humans, and are moving into developed areas and causing lots of problems.
They are not native to states in the eastern U.S., but are very adaptable and their range has expanded all over the country (including one caught in Central Park a few years ago).
Near Nashville they have been chowing down on people’s pets, are being found in populated areas, and the state wildlife agency is receiving tons of calls about them. They are capable of attacking a human, although it is rare.
They are thriving alright, to the point of becoming a problem for other species in some areas. Like bears, once they lose their fear of humans there are conflicts that can result in serious problems, even death. They can decimate other native species populations if their numbers are not controlled. That is why hunting them here, there are no limits. Hunting is the most viable wildlife population control for animal species.
Buck Gardner, famous for his duck calls, just introduced a new varmit call on the market. I hear it is great, and if Buck Gardner makes it, I’m sure it is.
Coyotes are also in Cape Cod ( Mass ) where they have attacked kids in a playground trying to drag the child off a swing set in front of the kid’s mother.
Nice recyling project.
Using the pelts to buy more ammo.
NAW . . .
Didn’t you know coyotes are peaceful animals with feelings, they just want to be left alone so they can dance around and sing songs in the woods with the bears, deers and all the other animals (grin)?
Good for him.
I have a friend who has hunted coyotes for decades. He uses a stuffed animal with one of those battery operated jumping balls inserted inside the stuffed animal — makes it jump around like an injured critter.
Then he uses distress calls to call them in.
The only good coyote is a dead coyote. I have seen a good many rabbits running around my house lately and I hope to see more of them.
Coyotes compete with me for rabbits, and I am higher on the food chain than a coyote.
That's got my vote of approval. In Eastern Oregon where I hunted for about 35 years and have relatives living there yet today, the living coyote's have a great respect for man. They realize when they lose that respect they will no longer be among the living.
We have lots of them in suburban Hartford. There is a pack of them in a large Christmas tree farm near my property. I hear them howl all the time.
About 6 years ago, I encountered a rabid coyote. I was bringing a load of trash down to the curb around 5:00 in the evening in the summer, and as I turned, a coyote, foaming at the mouth, walked about six feet in front of me. It was completely unaware that I was even there.
Coyotes? Thought you were talking about those scum sucking bottom feeders that smuggled illegals, not some American varmit!
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No... That’s San Fransicko of a sissy, rather than what you said!!!
Now that's a good one! That goes for both the human and non-human, even GovernMental worlds, when you really think about it...
Frightening. NJ just had its first-ever coyote attack not long ago (as described in the link posted here: Coyote Attacks against Children and another shortly after the 1st: both against children between 3 and 8 I think.
The local grocer down the road here in rural PA has some pics of a coyote killed nearby by a hunter after it got to his felled deer before he did. I thought we left them behind in the canyon in San Diego, where we actually encountered one loner. Not far from where you mentioned, Myrddin - right at the top of Sorrento Valley Rd. I responded by yelling and throwing rocks when I saw it sizing up my then-3 yr old. It ran off immediately.
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