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Citizen complaint of the day: Nature, red in tooth and claw
By adamg on Fri, 07/15/2011 - 12:05am
A concerned roadrunner sends up a flare from Fairmount Hill in Hyde Park:
There are coyotes all over the place up here.
Illustrating the complaint is a high-quality photo of an eviscerated rabbit.
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Word (and pic)
True enough.
We're a veritable deli for urban/suburban predators up here, with several huge unofficial urban wilds on either side of the HP/Milton line. Howls woke me a few times last night. We occasionally find bunny fur, particularly in the winter. However, the local pet cats are the ones who find and chow down on the baby bunnies (lots of that happening right now). Our coyotes prefer rabbits, but make do with cats as well.
Back in 1855 when about half the exploratory crew stuck with their bushwhacking to get to the area, those who quit considered it too wild for habitation. I'm not sure which side was right.
"Alleged" coyote
Let's not be castin' any aspersions here bub.
How do you know it wasn't this character?
Bad link
I'm guessing you intended to provide a picture of Wile E. Coyote, but instead I'm seeing a black box with red border that reads "IMAGE LINKING FORM THIS WEB PAGE OR WEBSITE IS FORBIDDEN."
image link issues
interesting? It pops up in my browser...Adam, does it show up for you or did I do something inept? (wouldn't be the first time...it's actually the norm.)
In fact, it's not Mr. W.E. Coyote, but Mr. E. Fudd.
Oh, the Web is lovely
I was getting the black/red warning box of doom until, out of curiosity, called up the image URL directly, saw Elmer, then came back here and now I see Elmer. I suspect they don't like "hotlinking" (i.e., embedding one of their images on somebody else's page), which I can understand, but they must be doing some cookie'ing to let you see it once you've visited it.
Might be easier if I just take down the comment, if you like.
Cached vs pulling
From here it's trying to pull the URL and that guys webserver is seeing that kind of request from a different website / area and returning the "hey, don't hotlink my pictures you DB" picture.
The server won't do that/ see it as a hotlink if you directly copy/paste a URL. The image then is stores in your cache on your HDD, and the web browser you're using pulls that instead of asking to re-download the image, since it's faster.
Weird conflagration of how your browser works and people trying to keep you from hotlinking.
george bluth
could have been george bluth
To which I respond:
So?
Peter's Hill Coyotes
My house backs up to the tracks behind Peter's Hill in the Arboretum and several times recently I've heard a pack howling behind our house late at night. It's amazing to have that inside a major city, I worked a summer in Yosemite and the coyotes there were very shy and stayed back from the camps.
We can arrange for rats everyplace
... which would be one consequence of killing coyotes.
But true men don't do that.
Eviscerated Rabbit? That says Fisher more than coyote to me. Coyotes tend to eat most or all of the animal - fishers just rip things up.
Well, we certainly don't need
Well, we certainly don't need Dead Rabbits everywhere. Although they might bring an interesting twist to the gang problems in Boston.
Yes to the weasel family
That's more like it. The coyotes who snatch rabbits and cats and supposedly a small dog on occasion around here do take them. We see the swatches of fur in the yard, but no corpses. Coyotes tend to take the whole prey to the den - sharing and other UU virtues, eh?
or
They'll bury it for later. Especially a mom with pups to attend to.
Really, they're not a menace unless you have a poorly constructed chick coop, or let your pets run wild (which is increasingly being restricted).
The benefits of keeping small prey animals in check overweight any precised dangers. Hell, I think there's only been one recorded fatal attack of them on humans ever. As in one in recorded history. And even that seemed really dubious to me.