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Grizzly bears, black bears, wolves, coyotes, cougars/ mountain lions,bobcats, wolverines, lynx, foxes, fishers and martens are the suite of carnivores that originally inhabited North America after the Pleistocene extinctions. This site invites research, commentary, point/counterpoint on that suite of native animals (predator and prey) that inhabited The Americas circa 1500-at the initial point of European exploration and subsequent colonization. Landscape ecology, journal accounts of explorers and frontiersmen, genetic evaluations of museum animals, peer reviewed 20th and 21st century research on various aspects of our "Wild America" as well as subjective commentary from expert and layman alike. All of the above being revealed and discussed with the underlying goal of one day seeing our Continent rewilded.....Where big enough swaths of open space exist with connective corridors to other large forest, meadow, mountain, valley, prairie, desert and chaparral wildlands.....Thereby enabling all of our historic fauna, including man, to live in a sustainable and healthy environment. - Blogger Rick

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Sunday, January 23, 2011

My friend John in New York City alerted me to the fact that Queens, New York has a prospecting Coyote looking for a mate...................The only locale in the entire USA devoid of coyotes is Long, Island, NY............a few short miles from Queens....................Only a matter of time until our coyotes head out on the Northern State or Southern State Parkways and colonize Long Island

Meet Lonely E. Coyote.
A reddish-colored coyote has moved into Queens, and like most city singletons, it's looking for a mate. The majestic creature was recently photographed among the gravestones of Calvary Cemetery in Woodside.
It's probably a yearling born last spring who got kicked out of his parents' home in December to make room for a new crop of cubs, said wildlife expert Paul Curtis, of Cornell University. Now it's on the hunt for a partner to start a family of its own. The mostly carnivorous creatures are no threat to humans unless they're have rabies, but keep an eye on your pet dogs, Curtis warned.

Marcelo Barrera
Photographer Marcelo Barrera was shocked when the animal zipped past his car. "He looked healthy enough to me, but frightened," he said.

2 comments:

cvinzant said...

Queens IS on Long Island. The coyotes have arrived.

Coyotes, Wolves and Cougars forever said...

cvinzant..............nassaur and suffolk next