Coyotes ate well last summer after digging deep into the beach on Sanibel Island when sea turtle hatchlings were still developing in their shells.
This year, researchers at the Sanibel-Captiva Conservation Foundation have been trying to frustrate the animals into losing interest in sea turtle nests on Bowman’s Beach by using decoys with no reward buried in the sand underneath.
As things are turning out it is the researchers who are getting frustrated…