Arga Warga!*

[Speck Tater]

What's next? Wall Street trader eaten by wild coyote?


Coyotes in New York City Lead Surge in Urban Wildlife
LiveScience.com


A spike in urban wildlife in New York City is complicating pest control and creating a public health risk not normally faced by city-slickers, a wildlife expert says.

Already this year, six wild coyotes have been spotted across Manhattan, a significant increase according to The Wildlife Damage Management Program at Cornell University. Scientists have also noted a surge in raccoon, deer and Canada geese populations. Researchers say that geese and deer populations have been building over the past decade, but the spike in urban coyotes in Manhattan is a relatively recent occurrence.

more at link: http://news.yahoo.com/s/livescience/coyotesinnewyorkcityleadsurgeinurbanwildlife

* Arga Warga! - The sound of being eaten by a wild animal, such as a wolf or wild dog: http://www.wordnik.com/words/arga%20warga - http://www.graphesthesia.com/rw/a16_11.html

[NNadir]

1. Wolves have lived on Wall Street for an eternity.

[gateley]

2. +1 -- excellent! nt

[gateley]

3. Where else is for them to go? We've mowed down their habitats. nt

[Hekate]

4. Coyote, that clever Trickster, has used human highways to expand his range...

... to just about the whole continent. He's a survivor, and he'll probably do fine in the Big City.

I hope that someday soon some clever wordsmith will write stories/legends about all of this wildlife in Manhattan.

Hekate

[pansypoo53219]

5. a badger was in our downtown post office truck building.

i know milwaukee is in banger wisconsin, but downtown?