A 36-year-old Arizona mother suffered severe facial wounds after she beat back a coyote that lunged at her four-year-old daughter, armed with nothing but a flip-flop and a parent's reflex. Brittany Cardinal was flying a kite with her young daughter in Surprise, Arizona, on September 6 when the child screamed. A coyote had come at […] The post Arizona mother fights off coyote with a flip-flop after it attacks her four-year-old daughter appeared first on American Almanac .
A 36-year-old Arizona mother suffered severe facial wounds after she beat back a coyote that lunged at her four-year-old daughter, armed with nothing but a flip-flop and a parent's reflex. Brittany Cardinal was flying a kite with her young daughter in Surprise, Arizona, on September 6 when the child screamed. A coyote had come at the girl. Cardinal didn't pause. She yanked off her flip-flop, swung it at the animal, and screamed to drive it away. The coyote didn't retreat. Cardinal fell to the ground during the struggle but managed to free her daughter. The animal then bit Cardinal on the face, leaving severe lacerations and puncture wounds. She got back up, grabbed her child, and ran home. Her daughter was unharmed. Cardinal says she…Open
Pittsburgh Animal Care and Control officers recently pulled off an unusual rescue on Atwood Street, spending hours extracting a coyote trapped between two walls in a narrow alley, a reminder that urban wildlife encounters are more common than most city residents expect. The coyote had wandered into an alleyway in Pittsburgh's Oakland neighborhood and became […] The post Pittsburgh animal control officers spend hours freeing coyote wedged between alley walls appeared first on American Almanac .
Pittsburgh Animal Care and Control officers recently pulled off an unusual rescue on Atwood Street, spending hours extracting a coyote trapped between two walls in a narrow alley, a reminder that urban wildlife encounters are more common than most city residents expect. The coyote had wandered into an alleyway in Pittsburgh's Oakland neighborhood and became stuck, unable to free itself from the tight gap between two buildings. Officers responded to the scene and worked for hours to safely get the animal under control and pull it out, UPI reported . Once freed, the coyote was transported to a wooded area outside the city and released. Pittsburgh Public Safety shared the story on its Facebook page , noting that officers had acted quickly…Open
A home security camera in Tarzana, Los Angeles, captured a coyote repeatedly confronting and driving off a bear from a residential driveway early Sunday morning, a scene the homeowner called unbelievable. Richard Hurwitz got the alert on his phone around 2:30 a.m. A bear had wandered onto the stone path leading to his driveway. What […] The post Coyote stands down a bear outside a Los Angeles home — and the security camera caught it all appeared first on American Almanac .
A home security camera in Tarzana, Los Angeles, captured a coyote repeatedly confronting and driving off a bear from a residential driveway early Sunday morning, a scene the homeowner called unbelievable. Richard Hurwitz got the alert on his phone around 2:30 a.m. A bear had wandered onto the stone path leading to his driveway. What happened next played out like a nature documentary filmed in a suburban neighborhood. A coyote, the larger of two on the scene, charged toward the bear again and again, refusing to back down. The bear, outweighing the coyote many times over, eventually turned and fled to a nearby yard. Not a scratch on either animal, UPI reported . A second, smaller coyote watched the whole standoff from the road in front of…Open
AI:A coyote attempted to swim a mile to Alcatraz in search of new territory, highlighting the ongoing challenges and movements within illegal migration patterns.Open
The coyote struggled onto the rocky shore this month. It is the first documented coyote on Alcatraz since the island was transferred to the National Park Service in 1972.