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Woman reports attack by foul-smelling coyote in Gloucester
By adamg on Sat, 10/10/2015 - 9:11pm
Good Morning Gloucester reports the woman was sitting outside watching the stars early this morning when the coyote leaped on her:
She jumped to her feet and fought it back with her fists. She next grabbed a broom and in the process hit her truck’s key fob, which sounded the alarm. ... Lyn describes the coyote’s drool as smelling like foul meat and the fur as coarse and bristly. The drool was in her hair and took some time to wash out the smell.
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Rabies?
I sincerely hope not, but I hope she is being treated.
She fought off a possibly
She fought off a possibly rabid coyote with her bare hands? Do NOT f--k with Lyn!
That's no coyote
That's just a citizen in need of oxy...
Not where she lives
If it were, she could just send them to the police station for assistance.
Google "Gloucester police" and "opioid epidemic" for more important information.
Such a bizarre situation.
Such a bizarre situation. Some of the public comments on the Good Morning Gloucester site are mind boggling. One mentions coy-wolf hybrids, a bit of folklore that was debunked back in the seventies or eighties. Another suggests the lady got in the animal's way, somehow, by just sitting there in a chair.
Coy-wolf hybrids are real
Not debunked - they make up most of the coyote population in New England.
Good article, Swirls!
Good find.
Coywolves are definitely real
Genetic analysis has shown that most of the coyotes in our region have some varying degrees of wolf ancestry- some quite high. Research furthermore indicates that the population of coywolves is expanding because those wolf genes have proven advantageous in bringing down deer.
See: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2817252/ and http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3488682/.
The rule of thumb: if they weigh over 50 lbs or hunt in packs, those coyotes are probably part wolf.
debunked ...then UNdebunked
Yep the "folk wisdom" of coyote-wolf hybrids really was debunked several decades ago, partly because there was no real evidence for it at that time, and partly because at that time the naive theory posited not only that they lived here but also that the hybridization had taken place here, something that pretty clearly made no sense
But after recent developments such as DNA analysis and more extensive field studies all over the country, the experts revisited the coyote-wolf hybrid idea. Turns out the DNA evidence is very strong, and field evidence for hybridization _elsewhere_ was also strong.
So despite not convincing the experts at that time, it turned out decades later that the folk wisdom about coyote-wolf hybrids was close to the mark after all.
It's a shame...
...she didn't stop at The Slaughtered Lamb for a pint first. They would have told her to stay off the moors....