By Gus Saltonstall
One of the two Central Park coyotes was spotted early Thursday morning with what appears to be a bad limp.
Peter Nenov was walking his dog around 2 a.m. on Thursday within the park near West 100th Street and Central Park West, when he came upon the two coyotes, he told West Side Rag.
“It was not walking on its back leg and seems clearly injured with a limp,” Nenov said of one of the animals, which he took a video of.
One of the two Central Park coyotes spotted clearly limping last night within the park near CPW and 100th Street.
The coyote is putting no weight on one of its back legs.
Video Credit: Peter Nenov pic.twitter.com/1Px940E0yg
— Gus Saltonstall (@GusSaltonstall) January 30, 2025
The coyote appears to put no weight on one of its back legs, before running out of frame.
Nenov was able to get a second video of the coyotes as well.
An additional video of the pair of coyotes. pic.twitter.com/Gilp2XHtSr
— Gus Saltonstall (@GusSaltonstall) January 30, 2025
The coyote couple have lived together in Central Park since 2023, according to the Gotham Coyote Project. The male coyote has called the famed Manhattan park home for more than four years, and the female was first spotted within the park sometime near the end of 2023.
It is not clear if it is the male or female coyote that appears to be limping.
The coyotes, which are generally very elusive animals, have been spotted more frequently in Central Park in recent months, including multiple times in January at the Turtle Pond near the Great Lawn, within the Ramble, and at the baseball fields in the 100s.
We will update this article if we hear anymore about the apparent coyote injury.
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Difficult to believe that anyone is brave enough to be walking in the park at that hour when coyotes and human predators are known to wander. I’m glad nothing happened to Gus and his dog.
Nothing happened to Gus or his dog because Gus and his dog were not in the park. Peter Nenov and his dog were in the park “at that hour.”
If you get off of work after 12am and you are a dog owner, that dog has to go out sometime. The 100th st. entrance is across from a 24/7 bodega as well as a parking lot with 24/7 security staff, and is well-lit. I’m not saying it’s a great idea, but it also likely isn’t as terrifying as you’re making it out to be…
My first thoughts !!
Can you get help for the coyote?
I’d imagine that would fall to the Parks Dept., at least for step #1.
ACME Anvil?
Gus wasn’t in the park. Gus is the reporter. Peter wasn’t really in the park either… it appears he was just walking at the edge where there is a wide, very visible entrance at 100th st.
We need names for these coyotes!!
Wiley & Wanda?
maybe looking for help knows she is injured.
The coyote experts should take a look
In the Park at 100 St at that hour not a good
thing as it is still so dark at that hour
They are dangerous and brutal
Still fast enough to grab a Pomeranian!
I walk my dog at 5 am and often see them in the Ramble. They’ve both walked within 20ft of us but pay no notice. They’re really something to see, quite beautiful and seem very healthy. I grew up around them, and it always amazes me they live right here in the city.
Sad to see any wild animal injured—there’s no veterinarian help coming their way and they’ll have to heal or not on their own—hopefully it’s a sprain and can heal—could be a fight or bite from a raccoon—it’s a jungle
I wonder if someone’s dog attacked it. Either way, I wish the coyote a recovery and hope to one day be lucky enough to hear it!
Everything about these guys living in Central Park is bad.
I spend half the year in Los Angeles and see coyotes and bobcats on a weekly basis within yards of walking – they really are not interested in humans or humans walking their dogs on leashes – they are interested in cats & easy prey. But these two should be caught and a wild life rehab could assess the injured coyote. You would be shocked how many are intentionally inured by us humans.