Fauxmage
04-19-2006, 08:51 PM
Jacob the Coyote Spotted in N.Y. Park
http://my.eimg.net/harvest_xml/NEWS/img/20060418/44446440_3ca7_1552720060418-1925668439.jpg (http://enews.earthlink.net/article/pho?guid=20060418/44446440_3ca7_1552720060418-1925668439&article_path=/article/str&article_guid=20060418/44446440_3ca6_1552620060418-1479421947) In this photo provided by the New York City Department of Parks & Recreation, a coyote is caged that was captured in New York's Central Park, Wednesday March 22, 2006. DANIEL AVILA
From Associated Press
April 18, 2006 5:26 PM EDT
NEW YORK - Weeks after Hal the coyote attracted national attention with his adventures in Central Park, another one of the animals was spotted in a Bronx park on Tuesday and was given a much more formal name: Jacob Van Cortlandt.
The Department of Parks & Recreation said two golfers reported seeing the coyote at about 3 p.m. by hole No. 5 on Van Cortlandt Golf Course, a municipal course inside the park that stretches more than 1,100 acres at the northern end of the Bronx.
Parks Commissioner Adrian Benepe said Jacob the coyote was named after Jacobus Van Cortlandt, who served as mayor in the early 1700s and had a hand in the land transactions for the park.
Hal, the Central Park coyote, died late last month as he was being tagged for release upstate. He had been captured several days earlier after leading police on a wild chase through New York City's largest park.
Hal was caught near 79th Street and Central Park West, shot by a police officer with a tranquilizer gun. The coyote, about a year old and weighing 35 pounds, could have crossed the Hudson River from New Jersey or wandered into the city from Westchester County, which borders Van Cortlandt Park.
Benepe said parks officials had confirmed the Jacob sighting on Tuesday but had no plans to pursue him because he posed no immediate danger to humans or small pets.
"Central Park is an area frequented by thousands of people on a daily basis," Benepe said. "We're not going to seek out this coyote - it's not a cause for alarm unless we get reports of them frequenting heavily used areas."
We have a colony of coyotes in Golden Gate Park in SF, and they don't cause any trouble. Our animal control people are sensible enough not to draw attention to them, so no one will have a fit and demand they be trapped and relocated. When one is spotted, and someone reports it, they are told that the coyotes are causing no harm, and that they are aware of their presence, and that there is nothing to be concerned about, and so far people are leaving them alone. :fingersx:
http://my.eimg.net/harvest_xml/NEWS/img/20060418/44446440_3ca7_1552720060418-1925668439.jpg (http://enews.earthlink.net/article/pho?guid=20060418/44446440_3ca7_1552720060418-1925668439&article_path=/article/str&article_guid=20060418/44446440_3ca6_1552620060418-1479421947) In this photo provided by the New York City Department of Parks & Recreation, a coyote is caged that was captured in New York's Central Park, Wednesday March 22, 2006. DANIEL AVILA
From Associated Press
April 18, 2006 5:26 PM EDT
NEW YORK - Weeks after Hal the coyote attracted national attention with his adventures in Central Park, another one of the animals was spotted in a Bronx park on Tuesday and was given a much more formal name: Jacob Van Cortlandt.
The Department of Parks & Recreation said two golfers reported seeing the coyote at about 3 p.m. by hole No. 5 on Van Cortlandt Golf Course, a municipal course inside the park that stretches more than 1,100 acres at the northern end of the Bronx.
Parks Commissioner Adrian Benepe said Jacob the coyote was named after Jacobus Van Cortlandt, who served as mayor in the early 1700s and had a hand in the land transactions for the park.
Hal, the Central Park coyote, died late last month as he was being tagged for release upstate. He had been captured several days earlier after leading police on a wild chase through New York City's largest park.
Hal was caught near 79th Street and Central Park West, shot by a police officer with a tranquilizer gun. The coyote, about a year old and weighing 35 pounds, could have crossed the Hudson River from New Jersey or wandered into the city from Westchester County, which borders Van Cortlandt Park.
Benepe said parks officials had confirmed the Jacob sighting on Tuesday but had no plans to pursue him because he posed no immediate danger to humans or small pets.
"Central Park is an area frequented by thousands of people on a daily basis," Benepe said. "We're not going to seek out this coyote - it's not a cause for alarm unless we get reports of them frequenting heavily used areas."
We have a colony of coyotes in Golden Gate Park in SF, and they don't cause any trouble. Our animal control people are sensible enough not to draw attention to them, so no one will have a fit and demand they be trapped and relocated. When one is spotted, and someone reports it, they are told that the coyotes are causing no harm, and that they are aware of their presence, and that there is nothing to be concerned about, and so far people are leaving them alone. :fingersx: