"The latest crazy coyote behavior in the SF Bay Area is that coyotes are swimming the more than one mile between Tiburon and Angel Island, and apparently somewhere between 14 and 17 coyotes now call Angel Island home. We've known for years that the probable reason that San Francisco has coyotes again is because they probably walked here from Marin County across the Golden Gate Bridge. Now Angel Island park officials have observed another very unexpected coyote behavior."
"The Instagram video above has some commenters giving guff that the park personnel didn't do more to help the coyote, but park staff dismiss that. Coyotes are good swimmers, park interpreter Casey Dexter-Lee told SFGate. We try very hard not to interfere with natural behaviors of wildlife whenever possible, as long as it's not in conflict with the visitors. We let the animals do their thing."
"KQED has better video of the coyote swimming, and spoke to California State Parks environmental scientist Bill Miller, who took the video. Ironically, Miller was boating out to Angel Island specifically to work on a coyote research project. I'm going out there to look for coyotes on camera, and then here just to see one, swimming, it was pretty fun, he told KQED."
Coyotes are swimming the more than one mile between Tiburon and Angel Island, and an estimated 14 to 17 coyotes now live on Angel Island. The first coyote was observed on Angel Island in 2017. Probable earlier movements of coyotes into San Francisco involved walking from Marin County across the Golden Gate Bridge. Park staff documented a coyote swimming from Angel Island toward Tiburon but the animal turned back about one-quarter of the way. Park interpreters explain that coyotes are good swimmers and generally do not interfere with natural wildlife behavior. A California State Parks scientist captured video while heading to a coyote research project.
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