Indeed. They're also likely to turn up in strange places. I recently encountered an ENORMOUS male wild turkey sitting right near the curb near a very busy intersection. It had recently snowed, and the bird was just...sitting there, apparently unfazed by the traffic. When I got home I called the Humane Society. They said that that sort of thing happens from time to time. They had someone already out there, chasing the thing around.
Out here in the Plains, as the cities and suburbs reach further out into the landscape, we wind up taking over a lot of the spaces where the animals live. After a while, a lot of them get fed up with being run out of their places and move back in. There was a deer that decided to take a stroll in the Omaha airport terminal just last week in fact.
I find the coyote a lot more inexplicable.
Coulda been sick, coulda just worked its way back in from the forests. Coyotes, being dogs, are extremely adaptable. Central Park is a big patch of land, and there are doubtless plenty of stray and wild prey for a single animal. Similarly, foxes are quite happy to live in urban areas - England in particular is awash in urban foxes.
Snidely
Yep, but my surprise is at a coyote comming out into the open enough to cross a bridge or pass thru a tunnel to get to Manhattan.
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