A lone coyote that swam more than a mile across San Francisco Bay to Alcatraz Island is being monitored by scientists and ...
The 1962 Alcatraz escape saw inmates engineer an elaborate breakout, vanish into San Francisco Bay, and leave behind a mystery that remains unresolved decades later.
The coyote struggled onto the rocky shore this month. It is the first documented coyote on Alcatraz since the island was transferred to the National Park Service in 1972.
A coyote was spotted swimming to Alcatraz and now appears to be thriving. Ecologist Christopher Schell at the University of California Berkeley has been following this saga.