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Coyotes may be start of larger urban carnivore trend
CBC News ^ | 10-05-2012

Posted on 10/07/2012 2:48:38 AM PDT by Renfield

First it was foxes, skunks and raccoons. Now coyotes are setting up shop in increasing numbers within urban settings in North America. Are larger carnivores next?

A professor of wildlife ecology at Ohio State University says urban coyotes, the largest of the mid-size carnivores, may be setting the stage for their larger brethren to start migrating to cities.

"They're the ones that are kind of pushing the envelope right now," Stan Gehrt said, suggesting animals like bears, wolves and mountain lions may be next....

(Excerpt) Read more at cbc.ca ...


TOPICS: Miscellaneous; Outdoors; Pets/Animals
KEYWORDS: bears; coyotes; wildlife
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To: BelleAl

wow, that’s some industrial grade stupid on display there. maybe someone should point out to joe that the state could probably make some money by selling off a few more deer tags.


21 posted on 10/07/2012 6:26:19 AM PDT by Jeff Vader (voting for romney, would much rather have Sarah Palin)
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To: Renfield

A cougar was recently shot and killed by Des Moines, Iowa, police in a urban neighborhood far from the suburbs.


22 posted on 10/07/2012 6:27:44 AM PDT by jjotto ("Ya could look it up!")
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To: Renfield

We have mt. lions slinking around now, but don’t try to call the DEP. They claim they don’t exist here in New England, despite the growing number of sightings and a few pics and a couple of road kills down in the more populated villages.


23 posted on 10/07/2012 6:29:09 AM PDT by Sirius Lee (The enemy of the American People? islam and the media)
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To: Bon mots

I used to live (and hunt) near Washington, DC. That place is overrun with deer and would indeed be good habitat for the red wolf, which used to live there in pre-Columbian days.

I had a spot to hunt that was only 10 miles outside the city limits of DC; I killed 11 deer in the last two years I hunted there (in 12 hunts). Great place for goose hunting too.


24 posted on 10/07/2012 6:35:05 AM PDT by Renfield (Turning apples into venison since 1999!)
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To: Renfield

When you shrink the area animals live in or move into where they have always been, you should not be surprised that there are more unwanted encounters.


25 posted on 10/07/2012 6:56:17 AM PDT by sakic
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To: Renfield

Update: mountain lion killed in Des Moines neighborhood

Funniest part here is that up to now, the Iowa DNR has denied they are even in the state.

26 posted on 10/07/2012 7:13:42 AM PDT by Free Vulcan (Election 2012 - America stands or falls. No more excuses. Get involved.)
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To: Renfield

I was not thinking of the deer as feedstock, to be candid...

There are loads of highly nutritious welfare recipients, Democrat lawmakers, lawyers...

Oh never mind... just a joke...

The blue-state urban libs are always forcing red-state ranchers and citizens to deal with wolves and dangerous predators in red states, so why not some blue cities?

:)


27 posted on 10/07/2012 7:30:48 AM PDT by Bon mots (Abu Ghraib: 47 Times on the front page of the NY Times | Benghazi: 2 Times)
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To: Vinnie

One night this summer, my wife, daughter and grandchildren were sitting in chairs around a fire roasting hotdogs. The eldest grandson suddenly said “OMG”. Sitting next to him looking at the fire like he was part of the family was a red fox.


28 posted on 10/07/2012 7:42:19 AM PDT by Starstruck (Voting for Obama again is like a dog returning to its own vomit.)
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To: Renfield

Coyotes? Compound 1080 will take care of them!

Oh, wait... It’s banned!


29 posted on 10/07/2012 7:46:59 AM PDT by Ruy Dias de Bivar
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To: Starstruck

That’s amazing.
A shame one has to be on guard against rabies. I could raise a menagerie.
By far our cutest critters are the flying squirrels.


30 posted on 10/07/2012 7:56:09 AM PDT by Vinnie (A)
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To: Renfield
The Project Gutenberg EBook of Wolf and Coyote Trapping, by A. R. (Arthur Robert) Harding, Copyright 1909.
31 posted on 10/07/2012 9:18:13 AM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum (Government is the religion of the psychopath.)
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