I always hear city people talking about how rural people should tolerate wolves. And when a swimmer gets killed by a great white, I hear city people talk about how this is their ecosystem that we have intruded into.
Maybe the people in the city should learn to live in their ecosystem, and to not upset the “delicate balance”. Nature put that coyote there ya know.
Bump!
Sure was never me advocating that rural people should tolerate wolves. Not when they prey on your valuable livestock or endanger your children. And you won’t hear me taking the shark’s side after an attack (was just one yesterday in Australia). You’re confusing me with a witless libtard. I just don’t need any wild mangy predator (and they go bigger than 45 lbs, especially if hybridized with wolf or large dog) around here.
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.
They need to release coyotes, wolves, and Pumas in Central Park.
way back in the good old days, packs of wolves roamed NYC and central park...instead of reintroducing them out west, put a small pack in central park. It would cut down on crime in the park and they would have to look for more meat for dinner...hopefully those that want predators out west...a few bears would also do some good...