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chomerics t1_j0h3y6c wrote

Gotta love AP for showing a coyote with mange instead of a normal coyote. No hidden agenda huh.

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nattarbox t1_j0cgnri wrote

Locally produced Canada Goose hood trim, nice.

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Shemsuni t1_j0etqby wrote

Don’t they eat rats?

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Cobrawine66 t1_j0i0hme wrote

This is stupid. Leave them be. They are part of the food chain, let them do their job.

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heresdevking t1_j0d31w7 wrote

"We're only killing the coyotes who are not near people and this isn't going to work... So, here we go."

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UniWheel t1_j0d7gq2 wrote

You might want to look at a map.

This is a very small place, out on its own in the water, effectively an island connected to the mainland by a causeway. This isn't habitat, this is disneyworld.

The coyotes might venture into where people are, but then they'll retreat to the areas of the near-island where people aren't. And going after them there, and not on a residential street, is basic safe hunting.

It's not like there's some huge reservoir of adjacent woods with an unending supply of habitat and thus wildlife - which would indeed accurately describe most of the rest of "coyotes and bears and bobcats oh my" MA

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heresdevking t1_j0detdk wrote

If you walk around your block and see a lot overgrown with weeds, or a wooded park, that's a coyote hunting ground. They often hunt in pairs, mated for life. They thrive in human communities and they're too smart to be exterminated.

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>Coyotes are killed by the thousands every year, particularly in Western ranching states such as Wyoming and Montana, but such measures are much less commonly employed in the Northeast.
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>The animals are likely to return to Nahant after the cull, said Elizabeth Magner, associate director of the MSPCA’s advocacy team.

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TheGrandExquisitor t1_j0ee1z0 wrote

Oh, you are so wrong.

Coyotes do perfectly well in urban areas. They live in NYC now for fuck's sake. They could easily walk along the beach to Nahant in two hours. Shit, in one night they could trot from Salem to Nahant. They do 10mph when going distances longer than 5 miles.

This is just a waste of money

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UniWheel t1_j0efkax wrote

>They live in NYC now for fuck's sake.

They indeed venture in from time to time, because metro north tracks are indeed a thing.

Similarly, it doesn't work out.

Up in Westchester along the south county trail? Absolutely, and fair is fair unless they're rabid in which case they get dealt with.

But wandering down the MNR tracks into Manhattan and taking up residence in Central Park? Nope, life will try, but that ain't gonna work out.

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