The girl was attending a day camp at the Botanical Garden at the time of the bite, which left a 'substantive but not serious' injury, according to California Department of Fish and Wildlife spokesperson Patrick Foy.
The hunt for an adult coyote that attacked a 5-year-old girl in San Francisco's Golden Gate Park is over after DNA tests confirmed it was among three killed by state wildlife trappers over the weekend, officials said. The girl was attending a day camp Friday at the Botanical Garden when she was bitten and suffered a 'substantive but not serious' injury, according to California Department of Fish and Wildlife spokesperson Patrick Foy.
In a bid to find the animal responsible for Friday's attack on the girl, trappers killed two coyotes on on Saturday and another on Sunday. Forensic scientists with the California Dept. of Fish and Wildlife confirmed that one of them matched the DNA taken from the girl's bite wounds, Foy said. The results of a rabies test will take several days and were not available on Tuesday, according to Foy. It's unclear what led up to the attack or if any dogs were involved in the situation.
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