A man managed to capture footage of a coyote in the Bronx, a species that is reportedly on the rise in the area.
A man from the Bronx in New York City has captured the moment he came across a coyote in the middle of the night.TikTok user @bronxwildlifeking shared the encounter in a now-viral video, which has received 282,000 views since it was first posted on November 24. In the footage, the coyote can be seen wandering in a dark street as the TikTok creator was out walking his dog.'You wouldn't believe me if I told you,' he says in the video. 'A coyote right here in front of me.
According to the New York State Department of Environmental Conservation, eastern coyotes likely ended up in New York due to changes in the land following European settlement in North America.Before that, the species would have lived mainly in central North America. Coyotes reached New York and the Northeast in the early 1930s and 1940s, evidence suggests.
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