{"id":126307,"date":"2025-09-02T03:26:07","date_gmt":"2025-09-02T03:26:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/126307\/"},"modified":"2025-09-02T03:26:07","modified_gmt":"2025-09-02T03:26:07","slug":"collier-county-woman-spots-bear-and-coyote-strolling-in-her-backyard-collier-county","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/126307\/","title":{"rendered":"Collier County woman spots bear and coyote strolling in her backyard | Collier County"},"content":{"rendered":"<p dir=\"ltr\">Wildlife sightings are common in the Crown Pointe neighborhood of Collier County, but one resident had an exceptionally unusual encounter.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">Laura Curro said she spotted a big black bear in her backyard on Sunday afternoon.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">Curro took a photo of the bear, but upon closer inspection, she noticed it had company\u2014a coyote following closely behind.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">&#8220;I realized there was a coyote following the bear, like 10 feet behind it. They were just kind of like out for an afternoon stroll,&#8221; Curro said. &#8220;They weren&#8217;t, Coyote wasn&#8217;t chasing it or anything, but anyway, they were just walking along, this will never happen again in my lifetime. I&#8217;ll never see this kind of, kind of weird.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">The Crown Pointe neighborhood borders a preserve, so Curro is no stranger to wildlife sightings. However, she said she had never seen anything like this before.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">Curro speculated that the bear and coyote might have been drawn to her backyard by the beautiful benches, possibly hoping to find a sweet treat.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Wildlife sightings are common in the Crown Pointe neighborhood of Collier County, but one resident had an exceptionally&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":126308,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[51],"tags":[27563,19625,79,201],"class_list":["post-126307","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-wildlife","tag-collaborator_gen_stories","tag-collier","tag-science","tag-wildlife"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/126307","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=126307"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/126307\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/126308"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=126307"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=126307"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=126307"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}