Video: Wily Coyote Outsmarts Snowplow In Streeterville
By Emma G. Gallegos in News on Feb 18, 2016 5:15PM
A very savvy—you might even say wily!—coyote has made his home in a fenced-in open lot next to Northwestern Memorial Hospital. So far he's eluded all efforts to evict him.
The coyote's presence has attracted the attention of passers-by, security, police and even animal control. Though wild, coyotes tend to be pretty harmless creatures for humans (if not their pets), and that seems to be the case with this Streeterville coyote. Rito Salinas, who works nearby, told CBS Chicago, "He's not harming anybody. All he wants to do is eat some bunnies."
DNA Info reports that yesterday a security crew from the hospital tried to capture the coyote so they could relocate them. They tried with a snow plow, as well as on foot:
No dice!
Alderman Brendan Reilly said that Chicago Animal Care and Control returned last night to tranquilize and relocate the Streeterville Coyote in a more humane way:
I think a tranquilizer would be a lot less traumatizing to the animal & more effective than a snow plow. https://t.co/4Pg081xk6f
— Brendan Reilly (@AldReilly) February 17, 2016
But those efforts didn't work out either, CBS says:
Late Wednesday evening, authorities thought they had the animal corralled when they were able to get it to leave that fence area. But, the animal had his own plans. He got away from them, ran around, and then turned and jumped back over the fence into the same field.
Studies estimate 2,000 coyotes make their home in Chicago city limits, and they've been sighted all over, including near Navy Pier and on frozen Lake Michigan.