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Male coyote swam 2 miles to Alcatraz Island, twice as far as biologists had expected
A lone coyote stunned biologists and others when it paddled its way to remote Alcatraz Island earlier this year, a former federal prison in the San Francisco Bay surrounded by swift, choppy waters notorious for thwarting prisoners’ escapes. At the time, biologists guessed the coyote swam from San Francisco, which is a little over 1 mile (1.6 […] The post Male coyote swam 2 miles to Alcatraz Island, twice as far as biologists had expected appeared first on Local News Matters .
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According to Local News Matters’s source item, Male coyote swam 2 miles to Alcatraz Island, twice as far as biologists had expected, A lone coyote stunned biologists and others when it paddled its way to remote Alcatraz Island earlier this year, a former federal prison in the San Francisco Bay surrounded by swift, choppy waters notorious for thwarting prisoners’ escapes. At the time, biologists guessed the coyote swam from San Francisco, which is a little over 1 mile (1.6 […] The post Male coyote swam 2 miles to Alcatraz Island, twice as far as biologists had expected appeared first on Local News Matters .
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