I’m no fan of these guys, but…

Even I have to give this coyote a little respect.

In today’s NY Post:

“The adventurous coyote that has been living on Alcatraz since paddling more than a mile across the San Francisco Bay is growing “much fatter” thanks to the former prison island’s all-you-can-eat bird buffet.

The yet-to-be-named canine is “well and thriving” on the 22-acre island — and has been feasting on fowl, whose carcasses he is apparently littering across the state-run grounds.

“He not only survived, but he is well and thriving,” Janet Kessler, a “self-taught naturalist,” reported on her Instagram account that documents San Francisco’s urban coyote population.”

You have to wonder how the coyote got his big idea. Were there rumors in the coyote community of The Buffet in the Bay? Coyotes are canines and so have an excellent sencse of smell, but could he possibly have gotten a whiff of dinner from all the way across the bay?

Or was this guy just a bold dreamer, a coyote Christopher Columbus who believed the promised land was out there and turned out to be right?

I bet Disney has the movie in development right now.