SAN FRANCISCO - An unusual sighting was caught on video – a coyote swimming in the San Francisco Bay on its way to Angel Island.

The video has sparked questions and curiosity about the coyote population on the largest natural island in San Francisco Bay.

What we know:

California State Parks officials said the video was taken on Aug. 29, as the animal was swimming through what’s known as Raccoon Strait about a quarter of a mile from the shore of Angel Island. And they believe it was making its way back home from Tiburon.

"That's like a one-mile distance, so that's no small feat for any critter," California State Parks environmental scientist Bill Miller told KTVU. "It was absolutely surprising. That was the first I had ever seen that in my, what, dozen years of working here," the lon

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