BOULDER — Boulder Open Space rangers will be stepping up educational efforts after they had to kill two aggressive coyotes — one of whom bit a jogger on the leg — on Sunday.
Boulder Open Space Division Manager Eric Stone said the two incidents on Sunday both involved coyotes who did not follow normal coyote behavior of running away from approaching humans.
In the first incident, a jogger saw a coyote to the side of the trail near 55th Street and Pearl Parkway. As the jogger got closer to the coyote, the animal approached and then bit the person. Boulder police and open space rangers responded, treated the jogger, who did not suffer serious injuries, and found and shot the coyote, which was still nearby.
In the second incident, a coyote that was missing its tail and most of the fur from its hindquarters approached a man and his son near an office near 55th and Central. Rangers tracked the animal through the snow and shot it, both because of its aggressive behavior and because it appeared to be suffering from mange and otherwise be unhealthy.
Both animals were sent to Colorado State University for necropsies, and neither had distemper or rabies.
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