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Via LJ user RM
Dec. 9th, 2010 09:22 amThis is wicked cool. :D
' Chicago's Cook County now has over 60 coyotes fitted with radio collars (plus a good many uncollared ones) roaming parks, alleys, yards and thoroughfares in one of the biggest cities in America. The animals earn their keep eating small rodents, especially rats and voles. The Cook County, Illinois, Coyote Project calls itself "the largest urban study of coyotes in the world." '
NPR article here: http://www.npr.org/blogs/krulwich/2010/12/08/131876027/60-wild-coyotes-patrol-chicago-and-occasionally-stop-at-convenience-stores?sc=fb&cc=fp
Cook County Coyote Project website here: http://urbancoyoteresearch.com/Coyote_Project.htm
I posted the NPR article on Facebook. Strongly suspect there will be remarks about varmints should be killed, not fitted out with cameras on the taxpayers' dime, before long. ;p I don't care. This was too neat to not share.
' Chicago's Cook County now has over 60 coyotes fitted with radio collars (plus a good many uncollared ones) roaming parks, alleys, yards and thoroughfares in one of the biggest cities in America. The animals earn their keep eating small rodents, especially rats and voles. The Cook County, Illinois, Coyote Project calls itself "the largest urban study of coyotes in the world." '
NPR article here: http://www.npr.org/blogs/krulwich/2010/12/08/131876027/60-wild-coyotes-patrol-chicago-and-occasionally-stop-at-convenience-stores?sc=fb&cc=fp
Cook County Coyote Project website here: http://urbancoyoteresearch.com/Coyote_Project.htm
I posted the NPR article on Facebook. Strongly suspect there will be remarks about varmints should be killed, not fitted out with cameras on the taxpayers' dime, before long. ;p I don't care. This was too neat to not share.
