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Show Page 32 THE HERALD. Provo. Utah, Thursday, December 3, 198? Bold coyotes maul horses, "I can't remember in recent years a plane hitting any animal on the runway," he said. At the Sons of Val Horse Farm in Waterloo just outside Omaha, three coyotes mauled a thoroughbred horse valued at $30,000. The horse had to be destroyed. Theresa Samson, who works at the farm, said another horse, a yearling, had to be destroyed about 10 days later after it broke its back in an attack, probably by coyotes. Both attacks took place about a month ago. The coyotes apparently forced the first horse into a fence and mauL-it, Ms. Samson said. The horse lost a leg and an eye, had cuts all over its upper body and the body was swollen with blood, she said. son. Maybe hunger forced them out or there's a large population." The coyote weighs an average of 30 pounds and resembles a dog but with more pointed nose and ears. Like any wild animal, the coyote could attack humans if sick or trapped, Nicholls said. A coyote ran onto a runway at Lincoln Municipal Airport Nov. 24 as a Boeing 737 jet was beginning its taxi to take-ofsaid Wayne Andersen, the Lincoln Airport Authority director. "The coyote ran across the runway as a opossum would run across the road and ended up under the aircraft's front wheels," Andersen said. "The pilot stopped and inspected the By CAROL ZUEGNER Associated Press Writer - OMAHA, Neb. (AP) The elusive coyote has become a bold menace in southeastern Nebraska. A pck of the animals there is blamed for mauling horses and another coyote caused a commercial jet to abort its takeoff. A federal coyote expert said he's not sure why the coyote, a cousin of dogs and wolves, has become so brave. "It's unusual because they are a shy and secretive animal. That doesn't mean they are not there," said Tom Nicholas, assistant regional director of the U.S. Department of Agriculture's animal damage control program. "When you do start seeing them, it wheels and tires. The plane was means they are braver for some rea cleared mechanically and went ahead. f, To stave off more attacks, ranch hands began going out at night to see if they could scare the cyotes away, she said. "They saw the coyotes and shot at them and now the coyotes haven't come around," she said. "I think they have moved off." "Like any predator, the coyote is an coyote population to curb the animals': attacks on livestock. Nicholls said. Budget cuts two years ago forcei Nebraska to drop out of a statewide." animal control program, Nicholls said; Now the counties with the most need, cooperate with the federal government in the control program. Nicholls said he had no estimate on" opportunist," Nicholls said. "It feeds how many of the animals are ' in" on whatever is most readily available: Nebraska, carrion, livestock, grasshoppers, watwildlife hinlndist Randv Stutheit of ermelon or wild plums." 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