Two different Eastern Coyotes found their way into Manhattan over the past month..............The first one, below was humanely trapped in Upper Manhattan's Riverside Park and released into the woodland that straddles the Bronx and Westchester County..............Like Chicago and Los Angeles, the ever adaptable Coyote is doing it's best to live amongst us

Coyote Captured on Upper West Side by Out Walking the Dog E Coyote Captured on Upper  West Side Photo by Christopher Sadowski.  Last night in Manhattan’s Riverside Park , a coyote was captured by the police. As  far as I can tell, this is the first coyote  sighting in Manhattan since March 2010 when a beautiful young coyote spent about  a month in the city. She quickly found  her way to Central Park’s Hallett Nature Sanctuary and made her base in that protected acre in the shadow of the Plaza Hotel before beingcaptured down  in Tribeca.  In 2012, coyote tracks were found in Fort Tryon Park in Washington Heights in northern Manhattan, but I can find no report of a sighting. Coyotes have been resident in the  Bronx for some time now. More recently, they seem to have taken up residence in Queens, and in 2012,  a coyote was spotted in Staten Island.  Manhattan’s coyotes probably come  down from the Bronx over one of the bridges at the northern tip of the island or, possibly, by swimming. Wildlife biologists at the Gotham  Coyote Project are currently studying our coyote population, using camera  traps to answer the question: “Where in NYC and its surrounding  suburbs can you find coyotes?”  The Munshi-South Lab is also  involved with monitoring the establishment and dispersal of coyotes  in NYC. A camera trap captured this gorgeous image. Camera Trap image of coyote and pups  from the Munshi-South Lab website. Last night’s coyote, a female, resisted arrest, as one hopes any healthy wild animal would do, and led the police  on a chase through Riverside Park  before being tranquilized and captured  in a basketball court. According to the Twitter account of the 24th Precinct, the police had the coyote “corralled  inside fenced-in BB court, but so cold  out, the tranquilizer in the darts kept freezing!” They had to wait for a second  Emergency Services Truck to arrive with “warm darts” as they “wanted to stun it as humanely as possble.” Police report the animal was unharmed  and was taken to Animal Care and Control where it will be examined  before being released somewhere outside the city.