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Coyotes are being seen on the empty streets of San Francisco

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Re: Coyotes are being seen on the empty streets of San Francisco

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If you are a grown adult, coyotes aren't that dangerous or scary. They aren't very big. They will attack small pets and children that are alone, but they typically leave adult humans alone. I used to go for six mile walks in the High Desert for exercise. I routinely ran into coyotes. They never bothered me. I did tell my children to not go out alone at night. There had been two or three attacks on children in the pre…

> lone coyotes are known to not be particularly dangerous to adult humans This is an important qualifier; they are not always alone.

Yes. It probably bears repeating. The pandemic seems to be causing people to gloss over important details in comments.

So thank you for pulling that out and highlighting it.

Re: Coyotes are being seen on the empty streets of San Francisco

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There are mountain lions in downtown Boulder: https://twitter.com/mitchellbyars/status/1242110542317096960

I should hope so too. Boulder is in a bloody huge mountain range.

I live _on_ a mountain with mountain lions all around, but I've only seen one twice in 20 years. So seeing three in a city is really unusual.

Re: Coyotes are being seen on the empty streets of San Francisco

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What we think of wild nature is nothing compared to what used to exist. Schools of fish so dense they would bring boats to a halt in the middle of the Atlantic. North America had more large wildlife than Africa. Whales as far as the eye could see all day long. Walruses in the Thames in London. I did a couple video essays on what I learned from a wonderful book The Once and Future World : My video essays: https://yout…

As a counter, overpopulation isn’t necessarily a good thing. The waste alone can create issues on land and water.

Re: Coyotes are being seen on the empty streets of San Francisco

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What we think of wild nature is nothing compared to what used to exist. Schools of fish so dense they would bring boats to a halt in the middle of the Atlantic. North America had more large wildlife than Africa. Whales as far as the eye could see all day long. Walruses in the Thames in London. I did a couple video essays on what I learned from a wonderful book The Once and Future World : My video essays: https://yout…

Reminds me of a quote from Charles Eisenstein. He cites The Once and Future World and then channels Steve Nicholls in Paradise Found : "Atlantic salmon runs so abundant no one is able to sleep for their noise. Islands “as full of birds as a meadow is full of grass.” Whales so numerous they were a hazard to shipping, their spouts filling the entire sea with foam. Oysters more than a foot wide. An island covered by so…

I find the state of the environment so shockingly depressing, it's incredible. What would I give to see the world like that?

Re: Coyotes are being seen on the empty streets of San Francisco

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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.

Coyote sightings were a regular occurrence on my NextDoor feed long before the quarantine.

My neighbors on Nextdoor constantly complain about coyotes eating their cats. Yet they seem to resent my suggestions to keep cats inside.

Re: Coyotes are being seen on the empty streets of San Francisco

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post #124

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I took the opportunity to visit Glen Canyon Park last time I was in San Francisco, after a local recommended to me, and it was a wonderful interlude in my visit; they had signs up noting that there would be coyotes about at twilight; alas I was there mid-day and didn't get to see them. I did, however, get to see hummingbirds for the first (and so far only) time in my life.

That’s a great place for hikes. It’s got a seasonal creek and small wetlands. They’ve got signs posted about the local wildlife you can expect see. It’s a shame dogs aren’t limited to a given area as they drive away some wildlife.

I envied the kids whose pre-school was in it. What a great way to spend your early childhood days!

And I appreciated the signage for giving me some of the history and and pointers on what to keep an eye out for.

Re: Coyotes are being seen on the empty streets of San Francisco

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post #135

What we think of wild nature is nothing compared to what used to exist. Schools of fish so dense they would bring boats to a halt in the middle of the Atlantic. North America had more large wildlife than Africa. Whales as far as the eye could see all day long. Walruses in the Thames in London. I did a couple video essays on what I learned from a wonderful book The Once and Future World : My video essays: https://yout…

This is an npr article on the size of fish caught by tour boats. You can see the size reduce over the years.

https://www.npr.org/sections/krulwich/2014/02/05/257046530/b...

Re: Coyotes are being seen on the empty streets of San Francisco

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Reminds me of a quote from Charles Eisenstein. He cites The Once and Future World and then channels Steve Nicholls in Paradise Found : "Atlantic salmon runs so abundant no one is able to sleep for their noise. Islands “as full of birds as a meadow is full of grass.” Whales so numerous they were a hazard to shipping, their spouts filling the entire sea with foam. Oysters more than a foot wide. An island covered by so…

I'm not sure exactly what those quotes are referring to, but many reports of European settlers to the New World, while technically true, were greatly misleading. Prior to arrival of the Europeans, the continent was full of Native Americans who lived in an ecological balance with wildlife. When the Europeans arrived, the diseases they brought wiped out 90+% of the indigenous population, according to some estimates. By…

Native Americans arrived less than 80,000 years ago. That's a blink of an eye in evolutionary terms. They were not the natural predators.
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