It’s very clearly an AI image to me. Just look at the road lines. A double solid yellow line on the right side of the road is not something that happens in the USA. The double yellow line would be in the center of the road. And if this was a divided highway with the coyote being in the center median, then the yellow line would be a single solid line.

The language/sentence structure and account name are also very suspicious. I want it to be real so bad though

The road has a solid middle stripe and a double-yellow line at the shoulder.

100% fake.

Cursed timeline 😔

All the text is AI blobs.

Lane markings all wrong.

Slop Xing

Is the Internet over?

No... it's totally legit.

Here is another image of the same coyote from a different angle that I totally didn't just render on my PC in 30 seconds.

Beyond that, this, "wildlife cam," photo looks like it was taken from a phone held at face level.

I think this is fake and an AI generated image.

Didn't even need to study the picture. The premise alone is ridiculous

Its ai look at how the coyote is standing and pressing the button. It doesn't look natural.

Was about to comment that if this story was true and not all made up, it'd be really funny.

However my bullshit meter was also blaring because of how many youtube shorts nowadays are about animals acting like humans and people just eat it up without questioning it.

It's a wild coyote repeatedly and flawlessly using a pedestrian crossing, of course it's fake lmfao

I looked as well, Gemini said it was real, then I asked for sources and it said it was not true and just a meme.

Same query except asking for sources:

At this point I just end up blocking people who post this dumb shit.

Early morning walking to work, I took a shortcut over a highway. Saw a hare that stopped, looked both ways, and then crossed when the road was clear. It got to the elevated section between the lanes (not sure what this is called in English), stopped, looked both ways, and then continued when the road was clear.

The story is fake on its face. It involves so much more than a wild animal waiting until it’s safe to cross the street. A coyote supposedly learned the difference between the crosswalk symbols, understood the connection between the button and the symbols, and learned and bothered to use them. Then, when humans gathered hours of video footage of this miracle, they only showed us a single grainy still image.

I’m disappointed in some of the comments here (not you - the whole comment section). People need to be more skeptical.

Lol as if Arizona in any way accomodates pedestrians.

I had a deer trot out of the woods and up close to the shoulder of the road. As I'm pumping the brakes, she's waiting for me to pass while craning her neck to look down the highway, both ways. It was a bit surreal.

Didn't even have to look at the image. It's written in the same exact manner as any other "then they all clapped" bs posts

Oh bravo.

wAIly cAIote

Nope. AI.

I can't find anything about it but this same deep fried image

'Moonlit Sentences' seems like a credible source, no?

Just because the image is made up doesnt mean its impossible. I have witnessed on several occasions different stray dogs walking down the footpath and using pedestrian crossings to cross the road after looking both ways.

If livestock can figure out gate latches from watching people its not completely unreasonable that a coyote might have concluded "The humans do this and I've never seen a splattered human on the highway" and m I mimicked the behavior.

It’s amazing the amount of things we’ve never observed before suddenly having endless videos now that AI sludge is clogging up the world.

Remember the old meme of "paranormal/bigfoot sightings" per year timeline... with a point where there's an enormous drop at "camera invented", and then bounces back with "photoshop invented".

An LLM lawl

I'd believe it with evidence, but this would absolutely get coverage from real journalists if it was real and directly involved academic researchers and a government agency like claimed, and that coverage doesn't seem to exist.

From the olden times in the era before the plague (COVID) there were tales of stray dogs who had learned to utilize public transit infrastructure to move throughout a city. I believe the city in question was said to be Moscow? My memory is fuzzy, what with 2020 through 2024 being the longest continuous year I've ever experienced in my life (so FAR...).

It's crazy how 2016 feels like "a couple years ago" right now even though, concurrently, 2019 feels like "a couple decades ago" ._. maybe the doctor was right; Maybe time really is made of wibbly-wobbly timey-wimey stuff.

I miss when AI as we presently know it was not yet a thing...

Coyotes are smart.

I've watched a crow check both ways for traffic before flying low across the road.

It's not implausible at all. Are you familiar with the idea of a cargo cult?

But it's cute and I want it to be true! Fuck AI

You mean dogs can't be taught things?

Alas, neither the researcher, interns, not coyote exist.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TVHgfcyMz9A

There is legal precedent!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Animal_trial