Hello all,
Coyotes kill woman on hike in Canadian park
Two coyotes attacked a promising young musician as she was hiking alone in a national park in eastern Canada, and authorities said she died Wednesday of her injuries.
The victim was identified as Taylor Mitchell, 19, a singer-songwriter from Toronto who was touring to promote her new album on the East Coast.
She was hiking solo on a trail in Cape Breton Highlands National Park in Nova Scotia on Tuesday when the attack occurred. She was airlifted to a Halifax hospital in critical condition and died Wednesday morning, authorities said.
Coyotes, which also are known as prairie wolves, are found from Central America to the United States and Canada.
Wildlife biologist Bob Bancroft said coyote attacks are extremely rare because the animals are usually shy.
We get to feeling so comfortable in the modern world at times, despite all the crime, that we forget there are still "wild things"...dangerous wild animals out there. I saw this story in the Boston Herald yesterday morning. Of all possibilities we probably feel as safe from wild animals as any other possibility. Something like this seems so primitive and removed from out times, like being thrown back to the pioneer days in the wilderness or the Middle Ages. How tragic for any person to die like this. We should all be reminded that nature is alive, well, and still a threat in such ways...and always trying to replace us as quickly as we have sought to dominate it.
Sympathies,
Merlot