In the Colorado Springs metro area (pop. 500,000 last time I had the heart to check) we have:
1) A gazillion deer - they walk down the main road of town all the time
2) a gazillion billion bunnies
3) Several jack rabbits (they prefer west and south of here)
4) Many black bears (I encountered quite a large one on my porch last
summer)
5) A phalanx (at least) of lions
6) A million red foxes with very long legs (makes 'em look coyote-like) - I saw
two downtown in the garden in front of the county court house a few
weeks ago - even the lawyers were stopping to stare at them before going
on in to court.
7) Several wiley coyotes
8) A lynx spotted by yours truly while driving up a pass just west of town.
9) An ever growing gang of bandito raccoons who take great delight in
raiding the local garbage and spreading it all over the streets for
everyone's viewing pleasure at daylight the next day
10) a jillion ground squirrels, pocket gophers, prairie dogs and other assorted
rodents, all no doubt carrying either hanta virus and/or bubonic plague
11) 506 pronghorn antelope
12) A neighborhood martin
13) 17 beaver in the local city park
14) A billion hummingbirds soon to be returning from Central and South
America, all no doubt carrying the latest and most virulent mutation of
the bird flu virus.
Coyotes?
