Middletown RI woman wants action to reduce coyotes on Aquidneck Island
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Middletown RI woman wants action to reduce coyotes on Aquidneck Island
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What happened to Sherlock the coyote? Case is solved in Jamestown Jack Perry, The Providence Journal © Paul Carter/AP, file Coyotes will take the low-hanging fruit offered, sometimes inadvertently, by humans, and it makes them brazen. Here, a coyote bounds through an empty field in Eugene, Ore.
Spotted walking along East Shore Road, or past Cumberland Farms, Sherlock the coyote had become a fairly common sight in Jamestown.
Too common.
So common that she d gotten on the radar of the Police Department and was risking the ultimate penalty and removal strategy for pesky coyotes a gunshot.
But Sherlock has changed her behavior in recent weeks, after some humans were persuaded to change their behavior, and she dodged a bullet, says Numi Mitchell, lead scientist for the Narragansett Bay Coyote Study.