The animals have killed pets, including three that were taken straight from leashes held by their owners, a town administrator said.
Coyotes, wolves and dogs have begun breeding with each other to create a powerful new animal that some scientists are already calling a new species. The specimen is now commonly called the “coywolf." It's the product of weak versions of wolves and coyotes interbreeding between each other, as well as with dogs that are the product of human settlement. They have the ability to hunt in any terrain—like wolves, in forests, or like coyotes, in more densely populated areas.
The USDA workers will perform the work at night using night vision equipment in parts of town where the shooting won't pose a threat to residents, Barletta said. The work will likely take place next month, he said.3 bald eagles die, 10 sick after eating carcasses of euthanized animals “When an animal becomes too comfortable, it becomes habituated, there's no changing the behavior of that animal," he said. “So you eliminate it and continue to work on the behavior of the ones that remain.”
“What needs to happen is people need to take wildlife conflict resolution seriously,” said Magner, who described the town's plan as “let's kill some and see what happens.”Man fights off shark with diving knife, escapes without chunk of torso in another Hawaii attack
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