Coyote injured 3 more Stanley Park emergency closures
On Tuesday night, Aug. 31, three more coyotes were struck in Vancouver's Stanley Park, with specific information about the victims yet to be released.
The Stanley Park Administration issued a notice to urgently extend the closure period from 7 p.m. to 7 a.m. the next day.
Photo credit: Stanley Park official website
Previously, due to the risk of wildfires, the park began to implement a night closure measure, and the closing period was from 10 p.m. to 6 p.m. the next day. However, due to the increasing number of coyotes biting, the park management office had to urgently extend the closure time from 7 p.m. to 7 a.m. the next day.
At the same time, the park will set up 4 controlled entrances to remind the public that only the necessary reasons can enter the park during the closing period. The 4 entrances are:
Entrance to the park via Georgia St.;
Corner of Barclay St. and Park Lane;
Around the corner of Beach Ave and Park Lane;
The south and north exits of the Stanley Park Causeway;
More than 40 visitors have been bitten by coyotes in Stanley Park this year. In addition to the three injuries on 31 August, several victims have recently been attacked.
At 5:30 a.m. on Aug. 30, a man was bitten in the leg by a coyote on a seawall near Second Beach;
At 6 a.m. on August 27, a member of the public running in the park was bitten near Lost Lagoon;
At 9 p.m. on August 27, another man was bitten on a seawall near lions Gate Bridge;
At 9:30 p.m. on August 12, a 5-year-old boy was bitten while walking at Prospect Point;
On the evening of July 14, a 2-year-old girl was bitten in the parking lot of the Vancouver Aquarium.
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A wounded coyote on the night of August 31 was killed. Previously, 6 coyotes have been killed within this year, but there has been no reduction in bites.
Environmental protection officials are currently working with biologists from B.C.'s Department of Forests, Land, Natural Resources Operations and Rural Development to determine next steps.
According to Stanley Park Management, despite repeated coyote bites, people still enter the park with raw chicken, cat food and bird food in an attempt to lure animals out so that photos can be taken and uploaded to social media. These foods give coyotes a habit of foraging and pose a risk of injury.
Last Week alone, 1,000 kilograms of garbage were removed from the park, and the management said it would install bins in the park to prevent animals from rummaging, and would install 96 new signs that had been printed to the main locations where most of the wolf attacks occurred.
Drew Milne, an animal conservation official in the Province of Bc, said all of these attacks occurred at dawn and dusk, when coyotes usually haunt. He again reminded the public to stay away from Stanley Park before dawn and after dusk.
Mountain lions trespassed on houses to frighten Langley residents
Big Win is really a "beast paradise", Stanley Park's daily bite of the wolf has not been solved, living in the home of a resident of Langley, even into the mountain lion!
At 6 a.m. on Sunday, Aug. 31, at a house near 55th and 240th Streets in the North Otter area of Langley, surveillance cameras clearly captured a strong mountain lion leaping through the iron gate and into a resident's home.
In less than 10 seconds of video, you can clearly see this muscular big cat, first standing on its hind legs, placing its paws on the top of the iron door to observe, and then crouching backwards, effortlessly jumping over the door that is more than one person high, without even running.
Jamie Purcell, the owner of the house, posted the video on Facebook and reminded surrounding residents to be safe. Fortunately, they were still asleep that morning, and they were not hurt by the cougar who had trespassed on the house.
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The cougar is not uncommon in North America, and it has a strong jumping ability, reaching 8-9 meters in a single jump, jumping from a tree or cliff at a height of 12-13 meters, and jumping up to a height of 13 meters. So just an iron door is really a piece of cake for them.
If you face it head-on with humans, it is basically the rhythm of the second kill. So Langley, the owner of the house, was really lucky not to encounter the cougar head-on. But a 5-year-old boy living in California was not so lucky.
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At 10:45 a.m. on August 26, a 5-year-old boy was playing on the lawn in front of his home in Calabasas, north of Los Angeles, when a cougar swooped in and opened his mouth to bite. The child was bitten on the head, neck and upper body, and was dragged by a mountain lion for more than 40 meters!
The boy's mother heard the voice and rushed out, saw the cougar holding her son, and rushed up with a loud roar. She punched the cougar with her bare hands, again and again, until it let go of the child and fled.
After the brave mother rescued the child, she immediately took him to the hospital for treatment, and the child is still in the hospital, but the situation has stabilized.
Afterwards, the local Wildlife Department (CDFW) immediately went to the scene to search and found a ferocious mountain lion crouching in the bushes outside the house, which law enforcement officers believed was most likely the lion that attacked, and shot it on the spot to protect public safety. DNA tests later confirmed that it was the cougar that had attacked the child.
The same incident of mountain lions invading houses to attack humans also occurred in BC province in May this year.
An adult woman living in the Harrison Mills area was attacked by a mountain lion in her home and was seriously injured. She was bitten to the face, head and arms and nearly died.
The woman also did not know why the cougar suddenly attacked her, but also broke into the home and attacked.
Still in May of this year, a woman near Fraser Valley in BC province was attacked by two mountain lions at the same time while walking, and was seriously injured, if it were not for a man next to her who heard a scream and rushed to drive away the mountain lion, the woman would have died.
Two cougars were then killed by the B.C. Nature Conservation Service. And, "the investigation has determined that the attack was fatal and unprovoked." ”
The BC Nature Conservation Service said that once a mountain lion is encountered, adults should immediately pick up the child and slowly retreat, while giving way for the mountain lion to pass.
"Make yourself look as tall as possible and always face the cougar." Never run or turn your back on the mountain lion, any sudden movement can trigger an attack. ”
If a mountain lion shows an aggressive intent, it should react aggressively, staring fiercely, showing its teeth, shouting intimidation, and arming itself with sticks or stones. "Convince the mountain lion that you are a threat and not a prey it can easily catch."
In short, it is really not easy to live in The Great Gentle and be neighbors of these beasts...