Nothing to Do with Wicker Park
I keep a Google Alert for "urbaine," and it mostly turns up what one would expect: French articles about urban issues (there's been a lot of stuff recently about the cité, or the French housing projects.) So it was not without a little surprise that I found the alert dig up an article about none other than Our Faire City. What interest do the French have in Chicago? Millennium Park? Jazz? Al Capone? Nope, apparently it's our coyotes. "Coyotes?" you say? Indeed, according to Le Nouvel Observateur, scientists from the University of Ohio have discovered that ils sont partout, that they're everywhere here. But fear not. The French paper reports that they are rarely aggressive to people (unlike the stray dogs in the Dan Ryan Woods) and have even been used in Canada to control the barnacle population, as they like to eat the eggs. I wonder how effective they are against Asian Carp.
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