Coyote spotted in Van Cortland Park

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Another coyote spotted in NYC park

(New York -AP, April 19, 2006) - Weeks after Hal the coyote attracted national attention with his adventures in Central Park, another coyote has been spotted in the Bronx. He's been given a more formal name: Jacob Van Cortlandt.

The Department of Parks and Recreation says two golfers reported seeing the coyote at about 3:00 p.m. yesterday by hole Number five on the Van Cortlandt Golf Course.

The municipal course covers more than eleven hundred acres at the northern end of the Bronx.

Parks Commissioner Adrian Benepe said Jacob the coyote was named after Jacobus Van Cortlandt, who served as mayor in the early 1700s and had a hand in the land transactions for the park.

Hal, the Central Park coyote, died late last month as he was being tagged for release upstate.

He had been captured several days earlier after leading police on a wild chase through New York City's largest park.

Benepe says parks officials have no plans to catch Jacob because he posed no immediate danger to humans or small pets.