Posted on 04/25/2015 11:26:03 PM PDT by EinNYC
Police caught another not-so-wily coyote Saturday morning in lower Manhattan after a nearly hour-long pursuit, officials said.
The critter was first spotted around 7:30 a.m. in Battery Park City, police said.
Cops quickly responded, chasing after the fast-moving critter on foot and in police cruisers, authorities said.
The coyote was eventually cornered near a cafe at North Cove Marina about an hour after being first spotted, cops said.
Police shot the animal with tranquilizer darts, placed it in a cage and brought it to Animal Care & Control’s East Harlem facility.
It is unclear if the coyote captured Saturday was the same animal that eluded capture on the Upper West Side earlier in the week.
Coyotes have become an increasingly common sight in the city. One was even spotted on the roof of a Long Island City, Queens, bar March 29 before disappearing without a trace.
On April 14, a coyote was snared by cops in Chelsea and later released in the Bronx.
Coyotes were also captured by police in the Stuyvesant Town apartment complex Jan. 25 and in Riverside Park on the Upper West Side two weeks earlier
Coyotes are an invasive species in the Northeast. We hunted the wolves to extinction in the early 20th Century. Now coyotes (actually coyote-wolf hybrids) are talking their place in the ecosystem. There are far fewer hunters and buffer farms around cities these days. Suburbanites don’t shoot trespassing canines, farmers should and do.
Coyotes are generally shy of humans, but attacks on children are not that uncommon in the Boston suburbs. We have plenty of bobcats (scary critters, but apparently human shy), bears and coyotes out my way. Even the occasional lost mountain lion. As an urban threat, I’d rank feral dogs way above coyotes.
I’d rather live in an area with Wolves, alligators, bears and coyotes than the millions of rude , arrogant , elitist, buttholes in that city /
Love how city folks get their panties in a twist over a little coyote.
. Also there are far more worse things in NY City than coyotes, things like rats, gangs, elitist rude people, drivers who can’t drive, prices of goods, hell the list os endless.
Attacks on children are not uncommon.
What part of MA are you talking about the south shore, north shore, out west because I don’t hear much kids have ben attacked at all.
The Bronx is of course the same city.
That said, your question is valid. Why would they release them in the Bronx? I would think that they would take them upstate.
Perhaps another case of bad reporting.
"He's too far from the Bay of Fundy
From appaloosas and eagles and tides
And the air conditioned cubicles
And the carbon ribbon rides"
My father in law is buried in the military cemetery in Bourne on the Cape and we were going down route 6 when we saw one on the side there. When we got to the plot we saw one roaming after two wild turkeys.
It was for us good to watch
I have about a half dozen near me, and on summer nights I call them “The Choir Boys”, they really carry on. But since they can be hunted here year round with no permit, you rarely see them in daytime.
To people in Manhattan, the Bronx is some place near Maine or Kansas with a zoo.
The upper Cape (the southern part, don’t ask) is, or was, a very popular retirement community for ex-military. (MG Chuck Sweeney comes to mind.) They are 180 degrees out of phase politically with MV and Boston.
The critter (escapee from Gracie Mansion) was first spotted around 7:30 a.m. in Battery Park City. DeBlasio rushed to defend his “chief advisor”.
“Shouldn’t your post have had a sarcasm tag?”
He was just getting sarcozy with the coyotes!
Ugh. That’s the point. Eliminate the feral. We need more coyotes.
Coyotes can and do kill humans.
Coyotes kill Toronto singer : Taylor Josephine Stephanie Luciow, who went by the stage name Taylor Mitchell.
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Yeah, we have Italian Wall lizards, descendants of a pet shop truck cargo released after the truck got into an accident.
Big mean critters they are! I have to carry a stick every time I go out to my garden!
[[Raccoons creep me out. Can’t explain it.]]
Because they can be very vicious- they are nothing to mess with- they are one tough animal
They need to release coyotes, wolves, and Pumas in Central Park.
Not at all, as coyotes are generally terrified of humans and do all they can to stay away from them.
However, they should be shot on sight in any populated area as they prey on our pet dogs and cats. Especially small ones.
OMG, that looks JUST like one of my beloved cats. I would shoot that freakin’ coyote without a second thought.
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