“There they are!”
A hush fell over three humans with cameras, as a doglike shape emerged from the shadows, followed by another, smaller dog shape. For a nanosecond the creatures were silhouetted by a streetlamp.
It was just after 8:30 p.m. on a footpath in Central Park, not far from the Delacorte Theater, where “Twelfth Night” was in progress, and the coyotes had appeared.
The couple, named Romeo and Juliet by their fans, have been living together in the park for over a year.
Juliet was the first to arrive, and there have been regular sightings of her since 2020.
In the summer of 2024, she was joined by a male coyote, a little darker and slightly larger, and their love story made headlines.
(Previous reports have erroneously identified the genders of the coyotes, but the larger, newer coyote is the male.)
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