For once, I’m on the side of the coyote. (Did I really just say that?)
A Florida town is using drones to locate a coyote den so that the wily predators can be removed from the community. Why, you ask? Are they killing fawns, busting wild turkey nests, or wreaking havoc on the small game population? One might think as much, yet the truth is one of the coyotes was seen chasing a house cat. I hope he caught it. Roaming pet cats kill millions of small animals and birds each year and are credited with causing 30 species of birds in the United States to become extinct. If a person owns a cat, like I do, than keep it in the house or the yard and don’t unleash this killing machine on other creatures.
Back to the drone. Here’s how the plan is supposed to work:
Officials in an eastern Florida county have taken a new, technological approach to hunting coyotes. Residents of Indian Harbour Beach, a town of less than 10,000 in Brevard County, have spent the start of 2016 looking for a coyote that was filmed on home surveillance video chasing a cat, WFTV reported. With attempts falling short, unmanned drones have been brought in to assist locating the ‘yote.
“It’s a tricky situation,” James Dean of AAA Wildlife Management said. “They’re kind of hard to catch anyway.” … [continued]
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