Coyote indulges in endless bird buffet after making daring 1.25-mile swim to Alcatraz

The adventurous coyote that has been living on Alcatraz since paddling more than a mile across the San Francisco Bay is ...

Coyote scrambles onto Alcatraz Island after perilous, never-before-seen swim

Experts have reacted to a viral video of a coyote swimming to Alcatraz Island in what is a surprising first for the San ...
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Inside Alcatraz: True Stories of the Prison’s Most Notorious Inmates

In August 1934, the first group of inmates arrived at Alcatraz, the maximum-security prison perched on a small island in San Francisco Bay. The Big House on the Bay was the ultimate destination for ...

Coyote makes astonishing swim to Alcatraz — the start of a prison-island pack? We asked experts

A video taken by a tourist shows the first documented instance of a coyote swimming to Alcatraz, scientists say. It came ...

Coyote Spotted On Alcatraz For The First Time After Swimming To Shuttered San Francisco Prison

Each year, more than one million people make the trek to Alcatraz Island to visit the site of the prison that was home to some of America's most hardened ...
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A history of Alcatraz, its famed prison inmates and an island's uncertain future

Alcatraz Island, a military fort turned an army prison in the San Francisco Bay, is most well known for operating as a federal prison from 1934 until 1963. That distinction is being challenged after ...

Wayward Coyote stuns tourists by paddling ashore at Alcatraz: ‘This is impressive’

He should have been trying to make his escape. A coyote doggie-paddled ashore at Alcatraz on Sunday, leaving stunned guests ...
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A history of Alcatraz, its famed prison inmates and an island's uncertain future

The maximum-security, minimum-privilege prison operated for nearly 30 years but shut down because it cost three times more to run Alcatraz than other federal prisons NBC Universal, Inc. Alcatraz ...