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As an early morning runner in SF, I see coyotes in SF every week or two, including at Twin peaks as mentioned in the article. One morning in Golden Gate Park I warned a few people walkings dogs since there were about 4 coyotes around the corner. From my first hand experience, I'd assume any wooded area with cover in SF has a coyote living there.
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Keep in mind stricter climate controls wouldn’t even hurt the economy this bad. A harsh carbon tax on all fossil fuels in exchange for COVID-19 to disappear to be gone would be a welcome relief to the economy.
With ya on this one, but what kinds of problems would this cause for people who don't have another option to get to work? Un-doing this ridiculous culture of driving 40 minutes to work will take a lot time. Still, I wholeheartedly agree on the concept. I'm curious as to how to fix the followup problems that will occur from fixing the primary problem.
Here in Santiago, Chile, where many neighborhoods are in complete lockdown, a wild Puma was seen roaming the streets[1]. This was their natural habitat before the city was established, and many of them still live in the mountains, which are not far from the busiest streets of Santiago. https://www.france24.com/en/20200324-wild-puma-captured-in-d...
Seattle has occasionally gotten mountain lions and bears in the city. https://www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news/discovery-parks-co...
Coyotes pop up pretty regularly in Sacramento, too (which is somewhat unsurprising given the proximity to farmland and other open areas, but somewhat surprising given the degree to which Sacramento's suburbs sprawl and would be expected to push wildlife further away from Sacramento itself).
Coyotes come out after dark. It takes about 20 minutes for them to figure out people aren't around. Mangy jerks. Once I was walking through some brush in a city park in Calgary, AB and a siren went by. The whole area around me lit up with howling. Little unnerving, although coyotes are pretty cowardly out West (in the East they've interbred with wolves and will once in a blue moon take a hiker down).
Here in southern Ontario the coyotes are still pretty cowardly. I live rural (but close to town) and I might see them from 100 feet away before they skitishly run off. Except for one time there was one that brazenly marched down our driveway in broad daylight. Not sure how long that one lived for, never saw it again... The ones in town are a bit less shy. What's strange is last night our chickens were attacked by an…
Here in England we don't have coyotes but just today I saw a pheasant walking down a deserted road nearby. It looked slightly confused.
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Fun story about this. I once did a night "hike" up to Tibidabo. This wasn't organized or anything, just a few friends and I took a commuter train out of the city to the base of the mountain, semi-stranding ourselves. Then we walked up to the top, slept outside on the hilltop and enjoyed the sunrise the next morning. Tibidabo has an amusement park and a cathedral, so there was a night security guard who was very confu…
Joey?
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And if another species dies off, it can also destabilize the ecosystem. Where is the special role of humans coming from?
We are able to recognize, anticipate and avert ecological collapse. No other animal can do this. The rest of the animal kingdom can only adapt, at best.
Humans mostly tend to radically reshape local ecosystems for their own ends, at times collapsing them.
Aside from some very local remediation successes here and there (which are more repair jobs than preservation), I'm unaware of any evidence that humans have "recognized, anticipated and averted" any of note.
Do you have any?
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A disturbing story I heard when living in Russia in my childhood was that if you see a wild animal in the city, it means that beasts have ran out of trash and waste to eat, and are getting more riskier, and you shouldn't be coming close to them unless you want to be eaten.
There's truth to that in the sense that most wild animals will avoid humans if they can. And, if you can get close to them, there's often something else wrong (maybe the animal is sick, etc. ).
EDIT: It could be the small Indian civet instead. Needs someone to identify