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perswig
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Was thinking the same thing as DMT.
The adult eastern coyotes I've seen appear to be within a fairly limited size range. If Ghost's visitor was notably larger, maybe a hybrid.
I've yet to read anything that confirms it, but I've found more bobcat sign around my chunk of coastal Maine in the last 2-3 years; I think they are thriving here, along with the raptors.
Dale
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survival
Big Wall climber
Terrapin Station
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Fun to read old threads sometimes.
"Gun nest" "cocks this long!"
Sometimes I crack me up...
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Rcklzrd
Trad climber
Prescott, AZ
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I've noticed that they grow them big and bold out here in Yavapai Hills in Prescott.
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Reilly
Mountain climber
The Other Monrovia- CA
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It's a jungle out there! An urban jungle, but still a jungle.
The lizards and the birds were applauding.
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ontheedgeandscaredtodeath
Social climber
SLO, Ca
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I used to see a coyote on Bernal Hill in San Francisco when I was walking my dog up there at night. It's a hill completely surrounded by a dense urban city and, beyond that, water.
I also saw one in the Presidio-- presumably it crossed the Golden Gate Bridge (no doubt shirking the requirement to pay a toll) to get there! Probably great hunting after it made it over.
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kunlun_shan
Mountain climber
SF, CA
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Dec 27, 2017 - 10:54am PT
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I have no idea whether this is true, but a co-worker told me about this after I mentioned the coyotes I've been seeing lately in Golden Gate Park. Supposedly this is how coyotes came to San Francisco, after dying out over previous decades.
Brings up memories of Rokjox and his threats to re-introduce wolves to "Kali".
https://coyoteyipps.com/2013/04/26/history-for-the-record-how-coyotes-arrived-in-san-francisco/
Yes, coyotes did come over the Golden Gate Bridge, but not on their own four legs. They were brought in from northern Mendocino County by a trapper.
These coyote releases occurred in and around 2002. They didn’t occur just once, they occurred several times, and at least 6 coyotes were involved — probably more. The fellow who brought them into the Presidio — that is where they were left — felt that they had a good chance of survival because of all the rodents and feral cats in the city — he wanted the coyotes to thrive.
Why did he bring them in? He did so out of retribution for the 1998 ban on leg-hold traps which he had fought against! Interesting twist! He wanted these coyotes to be a problem for the residents. “Darn those liberal voters in San Francisco who voted against leg-hold traps.” SF was on the route he took to visit relatives further south. It is on his way to visit the relatives that he transported and dropped the coyotes at the Presidio.
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Reilly
Mountain climber
The Other Monrovia- CA
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Dec 27, 2017 - 11:07am PT
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Yeah, and just you wait for those damn sea lions stinking up Fishermens Wharf to start
coming ashore to displace the hipster homeless!
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Toker Villain
Big Wall climber
Toquerville, Utah
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Dec 27, 2017 - 02:44pm PT
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Amazing photo but a friend says he has seen burros kill coyotes.
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Lorenzo
Trad climber
Portland Oregon
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Dec 27, 2017 - 02:52pm PT
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Out at the edge of town
Where airfield runs water down
Coyote crosses old tracks
And hops on the Light-Rail Max
( Sleater -Kinney)
Maybe this one flew up from SFO
They are all over my neighborhood in central NE Portland. See ‘em walking the dog at midday.
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Lorenzo
Trad climber
Portland Oregon
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Dec 27, 2017 - 03:01pm PT
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News anchor Jeff Gianola got a pic of a mama bobcat and three kittens in his fron driveway in the Forest heights section of Portland.
But that’s not surprising. forest park, though in city limits, also has bear and cougars.
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Lorenzo
Trad climber
Portland Oregon
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Dec 27, 2017 - 03:11pm PT
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This bear was caught ten blocks North of me and relocated to the cascade range.
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Reilly
Mountain climber
The Other Monrovia- CA
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Dec 27, 2017 - 03:46pm PT
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If I had a buck for every bear seen in Monrovia I could afford to move to Sierra Madre.
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Lorenzo
Trad climber
Portland Oregon
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Dec 27, 2017 - 03:49pm PT
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Sophie Sharing a moment with a neighborhood raccoon.
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Reilly
Mountain climber
The Other Monrovia- CA
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Dec 27, 2017 - 03:56pm PT
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Don’t get me started on coons. Noisy vicious disease vectors in a cute costume...
This one was pissed because I asked him and his significant other to take their tryst elsewhere.
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Ricky D
Trad climber
Sierra Westside
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Dec 27, 2017 - 04:02pm PT
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I've always wondered why Raccoons like to poop on your roof.
Where did they go number 2 before buildings existed?
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Ghost
climber
A long way from where I started
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Topic Author's Reply - Dec 27, 2017 - 04:15pm PT
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I've always wondered why Raccoons like to poop on your roof.
Where did they go number 2 before buildings existed?
I don't know about American raccoons, but when I lived in North Vancouver, BC, they pooped vast quantities in my back yard.
There was a stream running through our backyard and it was a total raccoon highway.
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TomCochrane
Trad climber
Cascade Mountains and Monterey Bay
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Dec 27, 2017 - 05:03pm PT
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big cougar trying to break into my hen house.....
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