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Officials are asking the public to help identify a woman photographed feeding apparently raw meat to coyotes in the San Francisco neighborhood of Bernal Heights, ABC affiliate KGO reported Wednesday.

So far, the shelter has not managed to find the woman but is optimistic “somebody in the public can tell us who she is, so we can reach out to her and get her to stop doing this,” Virginia Donohue, executive director of San Francisco Animal Care and Control, told the outlet.

Officials are looking for this woman, who they said was feeding coyotes in a California town. (San Francisco Animal Care and Control)

When coyotes expect food from humans, as with any wildlife, they “lose their natural wariness of people,” Donohue explained to the outlet. “They begin to see people as a source of food.”

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Regarding potential attacks, Donohue noted the animals “are pretty reserved. We don’t really think they will attack somebody.”

Coyotes viewing people as a way to get food is the reason behind federal officials’ decision last month to euthanize a coyote, which had continuously approached toddlers at the San Francisco Botanical Garden, KTVU Fox 2 reports.

“That’s not natural behavior,” Donohue told the outlet. “A coyote should not be walking up to a child in any circumstance. I don’t know what the coyote’s intent was, but it’s certainly a dangerous situation. … By just not feeding them is probably going to take care of a lot of the problems we have.”