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Officials are asking the public to help identify a woman photographed feeding apparently raw meat to coyotes in the San Francisco neighborhood of Bernal Heights, ABC affiliate KGO reported Wednesday.

So far, the shelter has not managed to find the woman but is optimistic “somebody in the public can tell us who she is, so we can reach out to her and get her to stop doing this,” Virginia Donohue, executive director of San Francisco Animal Care and Control, told the outlet.

Officials are looking for this woman, who they said was feeding coyotes in a California town. (San Francisco Animal Care and Control)

When coyotes expect food from humans, as with any wildlife, they “lose their natural wariness of people,” Donohue explained to the outlet. “They begin to see people as a source of food.”

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Regarding potential attacks, Donohue noted the animals “are pretty reserved. We don’t really think they will attack somebody.”

Coyotes viewing people as a way to get food is the reason behind federal officials’ decision last month to euthanize a coyote, which had continuously approached toddlers at the San Francisco Botanical Garden, KTVU Fox 2 reports.

“That’s not natural behavior,” Donohue told the outlet. “A coyote should not be walking up to a child in any circumstance. I don’t know what the coyote’s intent was, but it’s certainly a dangerous situation. … By just not feeding them is probably going to take care of a lot of the problems we have.”

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DUBLIN (KPIX) – More hungry wildlife is venturing into the backyards of the Bay Area because of the drought.

The total rainfall in the Bay Area this year is well below normal and according to the United States Drought Monitor, the counties of Alameda and Contra Costa are experiencing exceptional drought conditions.

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In East Bay Regional Parks, this means wetlands and ponds are drying up and many of the native plants and trees are dying, taking a huge toll on wildlife.

“You come in – this is the best restaurant in town if you’re a deer or something,” says Dayle Hall.

He has fenced off deer around his vegetable garden and other parts of the property. Hall has lived on the border of Las Trampas Regional Park for 10 years and sees plenty of wildlife moving through the area but says there is more than ever this year.

“We get a lot of deer coming down in search of food – food, water, whatever,” he says.

The drought is taking its toll, according to experts at East Bay Regional Parks.

“This is one of the worst years we have ever known. We see that many of our ponds and streams dry out extremely early, ”says Matt Graul, Chief of Stewardship of the EBRPD.

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This means that all kinds of animals come into the neighborhood in greater numbers and more frequently to look for something to eat or drink

“Coyotes move to areas they haven’t moved to before, again because they’re looking for water,” says Peter Flowers, who runs the Lindsay Wildlife Hospital in Walnut Creek.

Quite a few people in West Dublin have captured coyotes wandering the neighborhoods with surveillance cameras at home and then posted their footage on social media sites like NextDoor.

Dayle says he also sees more wild turkeys, skunks, and raccoons.

“Animals usually come later. I would say earlier in the evening, when it’s not that dark, they are a bit more confident or desperate, however you want to look at it, ”he says.

EBRPD officials say they already have plans to make their country more drought resilient. It is planned to increase the water capacity in all parks by expanding existing ponds and restoring natural streams.

“Now we just want to speed up our efforts and what can we do, things that we have planned in a couple of years and say how can we do it faster? possible because we really don’t have time to wait any longer, ”says Graul.

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Flowers says while the animals are stressed from the drought and may be roaming the neighborhood more regularly, it’s important not to expose them to food or water. He says the animals will become dependent on it and will never return to their natural habitat.

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Giants outfielder Darin Ruf is said to be in rehab mode. He tensed his hamstring on May 26 and is working his way back from the injured list. The last month was flushed and repeated: go to Oracle Park, get treatment, exercise, gradually increase the intensity.

But there is a good side: more time to be a father. That is not something that can be taken for granted. Not after last year’s 60-game season in a quarantine bubble when Ruf failed to see his wife Libby, son Henry, and newborn daughter Olive for three months.

Then two weeks ago the tide turned. The patient became the caretaker. Libby Ruf needed an emergency appendectomy. Her mother flew from Omaha, Neb., To San Francisco to help the children.

“But I left pretty much everything in it,” said Libby. “It’s wonderful. He can do anything.

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