{"id":378259,"date":"2025-12-30T17:42:14","date_gmt":"2025-12-30T17:42:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/378259\/"},"modified":"2025-12-30T17:42:14","modified_gmt":"2025-12-30T17:42:14","slug":"coyote-spotted-in-central-park","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/378259\/","title":{"rendered":"Coyote spotted in Central Park"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/1daexu4p365v44rz.jpg\" alt=\"WATCH: Coyote seen walking across Central Park frozen pond\" class=\"sr-only\" data-v-4292be72=\"\"\/>    <\/p>\n<p data-v-6c8e215c=\"\">NEW JERSEY &#8211; A coyote was spotted walking across a frozen pond in New York City\u2019s Central Park following <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox5ny.com\/news\/weather-nyc-snow-totals-ny-nj-ct-saturday\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">a snow storm on Saturday.<\/a><\/p>\n<p original-article-post=\"\" origination_station=\"WNYW\" data-v-ec26887a=\"\" data-v-6c8e215c=\"\">What we know:<\/p>\n<p data-v-6c8e215c=\"\">Video captured by photographer Michael Silverstone shows the animal calmly crossing the park\u2019s frozen Turtle Pond on Saturday morning.<\/p>\n<p data-v-6c8e215c=\"\">Silverstone shared the video on Instagram, writing that he was relieved to learn the animal was a wild coyote and not a lost pet. &#8220;The things you see in NYC!&#8221; he wrote.<\/p>\n<p original-article-post=\"\" origination_station=\"WNYW\" data-v-ec26887a=\"\" data-v-6c8e215c=\"\">Local perspective:<\/p>\n<p data-v-6c8e215c=\"\">Central Park is home to a small population of coyotes.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p data-v-6c8e215c=\"\">Among them is a well-known pair nicknamed Romeo and Juliet, which park visitors frequently spot near the Delacorte Theater, the site of the Shakespeare in the Park performances each summer.<\/p>\n<p class=\"group-source-paragraph\" data-v-4fbf7207=\"\">The Source: This report is based on information from Storyful.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>    <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox5ny.com\/tag\/us\/nj\" class=\"tags-tag\" data-v-6c8e215c=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">New Jersey<\/a> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"NEW JERSEY &#8211; A coyote was spotted walking across a frozen pond in New York City\u2019s Central Park&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":378260,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[51],"tags":[3,19808,79,25,201],"class_list":["post-378259","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-wildlife","tag-news","tag-nj","tag-science","tag-us","tag-wildlife"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/378259","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=378259"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/378259\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/378260"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=378259"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=378259"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=378259"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}