{"id":440690,"date":"2026-01-29T11:02:09","date_gmt":"2026-01-29T11:02:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/440690\/"},"modified":"2026-01-29T11:02:09","modified_gmt":"2026-01-29T11:02:09","slug":"coyote-swims-all-the-way-to-alcatraz-island-and-is-now-thriving","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/440690\/","title":{"rendered":"Coyote Swims All the Way to Alcatraz Island and Is Now &#8216;Thriving&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A coyote swam all the way from the shores of San Francisco to Alcatraz, swimming over a mile in San Francisco Bay to reach the 22-acre island famous for its prison, and it arrived shaky and weak. A visitor spotted the animal swimming and filmed it in disbelief. The video went viral, with folks from the area saying they\u2019d never seen or heard of such a thing happening.<\/p>\n<p>[RELATED: <a href=\"https:\/\/outdoors.com\/watch-coyotes-spotted-playing-near-golden-gate-bridge\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">WATCH: Coyotes Spotted Playing Near Golden Gate Bridge<\/a>]<\/p>\n<p>And now, that coyote is \u201cthriving\u201d on Alcatraz, thanks to the buffet of sea birds it now has access to. Aidan Moore, an Alcatraz City Cruises employee,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/sfstandard.com\/2026\/01\/27\/coyote-swam-to-alcatraz-san-francisco\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">told The San Francisco Standard<\/a>: \u201cHe\u2019s certainly much fatter than when he arrived.\u201d <\/p>\n<p>Watch a coyote swim to Alcatraz here:<\/p>\n<p>Here\u2019s an update on the Alcatraz coyote:<\/p>\n<p>Header stock image by Alexander Spatari\/Getty Images<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A coyote swam all the way from the shores of San Francisco to Alcatraz, swimming over a mile&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":440691,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[49,48,136577,66,323,5488],"class_list":["post-440690","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-wildlife","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-coyote","tag-science","tag-wildlife","tag-wildlife-video"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/440690","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=440690"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/440690\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/440691"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=440690"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=440690"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=440690"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}