WATCH: Coyote pulled out of shelves after being found hiding inside Chicago Aldi store

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no injuries were reported in this
incident including to the coyote one
Wildlife ecologist says with this being
coyote mating season that Amorous animal
may have been looking for love this
adult male coyote is now in caring hands
after a star turn on social media watch
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shows police yanking the Animal by the
tail from the produce section of this
Aldi in Humble Park Witnesses say the
animal had been roaming the parking lot
at 800 North Ki when it somehow ended up
inside the store police and Chicago
animal care and control safely removing
that coyote who'd been hiding in a
cooler beneath a selection of fine
cheeses it picked an odd location and
they do this sometimes they make a
mistake they're trying to avoid us
they're trying to hide from us Stan
Garrett has been studying coyotes in
Chicago for a quarter century and says
they're everywhere like in this case
hiding in plain sight probably trying to
find a new area to hide ended up inside
the store and this has happened in the
past in April 2007 this coyote and a
cooler Drew an audience at a downtown
sandwich shop where a camera captured
the animal sauntering in and making
itself at home alongside some beverages
in this case our coyote with his dark
inviting eyes may have been looking for
love January through March is mating
season when coyotes are especially
active some of these animals the ones
especially that make a mistake and they
find themselves into a building often
are what we call transient animals so
these are animals that actually don't
have a mate yet the coyote is now the
care of the group Flint Creek Wildlife
Rehabilitation which will make sure the
animal is okay before perhaps releasing
it back into the wild
