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Taylor Mitchell, 19, died yesterday as a result of injuries sustained in a Coyote attack on the Skyline Trail in Cape Breton Highlands National Park, Nova Scotia, Canada. Taylor, a folk singer-songwriter from Toronto, was hiking alone when two coyotes attacked her. Her cries for help alerted other hikers who then called emergency services. Although police shot and wounded one of the Coyotes, both animals initially escaped and one remains at large. Taylor was in critical condition when she was airlifted by helicopter to Queen Elizabeth II Health Sciences Centre in Halifax. Sadly, her injuries were so severe that she passed away on Wednesday morning.Taylor Mitchell, a vibrant young artist with remarkable vocals, was recently nominated in the category of “2009 Young performer of the year” by the Canadian Folk Music Awards (CFMA). Taylor had just begun an East-Coast tour to promote her debut album, “For Your Consideration,” and her stunning vocals prompted Exclaim magazine to comment, “When George Bernard Shaw so famously noted that youth was wasted on the young, he hadn’t heard Taylor Mitchell sing.”
Coyote attacks are extremely rare. Indeed, in the USA there has only been one documented death attributed to a Coyote in the last three centuries. In 1981, a young toddler in Glendale, California was killed by a coyote as a consequence of her parents feeding the animal on a regular basis. The Coyote (Canis Latrans) with its distinctive brown coat and white belly is found in all forty-nine continental states - there are large Coyote populations in both Yellowstone and Grand Teton National Parks.Although the Coyote usually hunts at night, it can become habituated to humans and can be extremely aggressive, especially if it is fed by humans either deliberately or accidentally, notably via trash cans and scraps left behind on picnic tables.
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