On a light note, and under the heading of "just when you thought you've heard it all":
A wild coyote has been seen roaming around Central Park in New York City! He was finally captured this morning, safe and apparently healthy, and will be moved to a wildlife rehab center in Upstate New York (a spa for animals who are stressed out by city living?)
The coyote was not, as you might think, an escapee from the Central Park Zoo or even the Bronx Zoo, which then begs the question: how the hell did he get into Manhattan? It's an island, after all, and the only ways in or out are by concrete highways, bridges and tunnels. How did he managed to get all the way into Central Park without being flattened by a city bus?
Was this a coyote who was bored with life on the range out in Wyoming or New Mexico, and got a hankerin' for some big city lights? Did he hitch a ride on a pickup truck, or stow away in the luggage rack of a Greyhound bus? Float into the city across the Hudson River by way of an Acme Rubber Raft?
I wonder what he hope to achieve once he got to New York. Did he visit Rockefeller Center? Go to the Met or the Museum of Natural History? Take in a Broadway show?
Or was he perhaps chasing a roadrunner? (Of course, the only roadrunners I know of in NYC are at the NY Road Runners Club.) I can't help but flash back to those great WB cartoons with Wile E. Coyote (watch one here). For a "wiley" coyote, he wasn't too bright. This furry little guy they captured today at least was smart enough to make his way into the concrete jungle, all by himself. I hope he likes his new digs upstate even better.
