Sep 21, 2009
A man lying down for a nap in Los Angeles' Griffith Park woke up to a coyote biting his foot, according to a brief article in the Los Angeles Times over the weekend. The man was not seriously injured, but the unusual encounter with wildlife increased local alarm over a spate of coyote-related incidents in the southland.
- Another person was bitten by a coyote in Griffith Park in August.
- Pop singer Jessica Simpson's poodle-maltese mix was snatched by a coyote on Monday night.
- On Wednesday, another maltipoo was nabbed in Hollywood Hills.
The article cited a 2004 UC study that found coyote aggression and attacks on people and pets on the rise in the state, particularly in “suburban-wildland interface” areas of Southern California.
For more on coyotes, see http://coyotebytes.org, a UC Cooperative Extension Web site that provides information to homeowners, land managers, agency personnel, and others to help solve coyote-human conflicts.
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