Coyote struck by car, killed
DEATH VALLEY, Calif. – A coyote was struck by a car and killed on Christmas Day in Death Valley National Park. The coyote had been begging for food along Badwater Road near Golden Canyon for the preceding months.
“We tried hazing it away from the road by shooting it with a paintball gun and pepper spray,” said Superintendent Mike Reynolds. “The only thing the coyote learned was to stay away from park rangers!”
It is illegal to feed wildlife within Death Valley National Park. Feeding wildlife often later causes that animal’s death. Wildlife that have been fed by people learn to cross roads when they see a car coming. They learn that this behavior sometimes triggers the car to stop and feed them.
Death Valley National Park is the homeland of the Timbisha Shoshone and preserves natural resources, cultural resources, exceptional wilderness, scenery, and learning experiences within the nation’s largest conserved desert landscape and some of the most extreme climate and topographic conditions on the planet. Learn more at www.nps.gov/deva.
Coyote on Badwater Road a few weeks before it was killed by a car.
NPS photo by Bill Sloan
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This is news?
Natural selection.
Once again,our travelers cause the death of a wild Animal….feeding it,taking photos doing it,getting it so domesticated,it sits on the road expecting car’s to stop and give them a treat…which they do….what used to take place in larger parks with big wild Animals now takes place in any park or area with anykind of Animal….not long ago, they had a Bear coming into the Big Pine Glacier Lodge picnic area, to where the city-folk moving here from Santa Monica to work there were feeding it,posting photos on the internet of the Bear standing on his hind-legs at the BBQ grill looking as if the Bear was BBQ’ing on the grill,and giving it a name…thinking all funny and good by attracting more visitors to the area…ha-ha….real funny.
Aren’t humans just THE BEST?
PS – The car didn’t kill the coyote, the driver of the car killed the coyote.
Or maybe it was a driverless Tesla?
It’s a wonder more donkeys aren’t stuck along 190!