Imagine shopping for groceries and stumbling upon a wild coyote in the frozen food aisle. That's exactly what happened in a Chicago Aldi store today.

Coyote mating season is in progress from January through March, and coyotes are now more visible as they search for mates and establish territory. Marissa Sulek reports.

After several high-profile and unusual coyote encounters in the Chicago area, experts are offering explanations on why such incidents are occurring. On Monday, a coyote managed to enter an Aldi’s grocery store in Chicago’s Humboldt Park neighborhood,

Animal appeared uninjured and will be assessed before being released back into the wild if that is deemed appropriate.

Police officers pulled a coyote out of the refrigerated section in an Aldi grocery store outside of Chicago. The popular weather forecaster is gone with no explanation from the station beyond a statement thanking her for keeping viewers safe and informed.

An officer eventually grabbed what appeared to be a furry tail and furiously pulled before the wild animal shockingly emerged and landed on the market floor.

Customers gasped as officers made several attempts to yank the coyote out of the shelf, finally pulling the animal out by its tail.

Officials gave an update Tuesday on a coyote pulled from a refrigerator shelf at an Aldi in Chicago, a moment that was captured on now-viral video.

A video of authorities removing a coyote from an Aldi grocery store in Chicago has gone viral.Police, who worked with Chicago Animal Care and Control, said no people were injured in the incident, and the adult male coyote was uninjured,

"A coyote walks into an ALDI"sounds a lot like the start of a cheesy dad joke, but that's exactly what happened in a Chicago, Illinois ALDI store this week. And lucky for us, the mayhem was caught on camera.

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