They caught the Central Park Coyote!

In case you guys hadn't heard, there was a wild coyote loose in Central Park for a few days, until they caught him yesterday morning.
He was first seen Tuesday in the south-east corner of the Park, near the Hallett Nature Sanctuary, so he was christened 'Hal'.
On Wednesday morning, Hal led dozens of cops on a two-hour hunt, running from the Sanctuary, to the ice rink, where he ran through the set of a Robin Williams movie, halting filming. They thought they had caught him, but then Hal jumped an 8-foot fence, and headed north, traveling through Literary Walk, the Mall, past the Bandshell and through Bethesda Terrace. He ran around the Lake, through the Ramble, and then ran out of luck when he was cornered in Belvedere Castle and was shot with a tranquilizer dart. Hal made one last run - across the 79th Street Transverse, before falling asleep behind a Fire Department substation.

What baffles me is how a wild Coyote makes its way into Manhattan... According to the New York Post, there is a railroad trestle that crosses the Hudson River under the George Washington Bridge, which leads into a heavily wooded area... From there, Hal must have travelled down the West Side, through Hudson River Park. How he crossed over to Central Park, I don't know.

The Parks Department plans to release Hal back into the wild...

Cool stuff!
C
- posted by Christoph Roggenkamp @ 3/23/2006 10:18:00 AM