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Dec. 9th, 2010 06:21 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
cblj_backupThere are so many things to enjoy about this story, I have lost count. (Thanks to everyone who linked me to it, btw!)
The story is about wild radio-collared coyotes who live in Chicago, and the people who study them. The Cook County Illinois Coyote Project is conducting the largest study of urban coyotes in the world, apparently, and we have more than sixty radio-collared coyotes telling us about how the local wildlife interacts with the local nightlife out here in the Second City.
I like coyotes, and used to run into them quite a bit when I lived in California, because I went hiking a lot. It's true that they stick to parks and quiet areas, and they're easily frightened -- those that didn't immediately bolt when they saw me used to run off if I clapped my hands a few times. And I LOLed along with everyone else when a coyote came downtown in 2007 and jumped in the drinks cooler at a local Quiznos. I mean, look at this face. "What, I can't hang out with the SoBe? Fuck off, everyone's hot and I'm wearing a fur fucking coat here."
I hear ya, coyote. I hear ya.
The story is about wild radio-collared coyotes who live in Chicago, and the people who study them. The Cook County Illinois Coyote Project is conducting the largest study of urban coyotes in the world, apparently, and we have more than sixty radio-collared coyotes telling us about how the local wildlife interacts with the local nightlife out here in the Second City.
I like coyotes, and used to run into them quite a bit when I lived in California, because I went hiking a lot. It's true that they stick to parks and quiet areas, and they're easily frightened -- those that didn't immediately bolt when they saw me used to run off if I clapped my hands a few times. And I LOLed along with everyone else when a coyote came downtown in 2007 and jumped in the drinks cooler at a local Quiznos. I mean, look at this face. "What, I can't hang out with the SoBe? Fuck off, everyone's hot and I'm wearing a fur fucking coat here."
I hear ya, coyote. I hear ya.
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Date: 2010-12-09 04:10 pm (UTC)Any hypothetical coyotes would have to compete with the local birds of prey, but yes, between the two species you could make a real dent in the quantities of rats about.