A coyote bit a 14-month-old girl in the buttocks as she played in a San Bernardino County park Friday, authorities said.
The little girl was with her nanny at Altura Park in Chino Hills when the caretaker heard the child scream around 10:30 a.m., sheriff's spokeswoman Arden Wiltshire said.
The nanny saw the coyote with the child in its mouth, grabbed the child and was able to pull her away, Wiltshire said.
The coyote then ran off.
The child was taken to Chino Valley Medical Center where she was treated for multiple bite wounds and released, director of nursing Anne Marie Robertson said. She was later transported to Loma Linda University Medical Center to receive the rabies vaccine.
San Bernardino County Animal Control and the State Department of Fish and Game were searching for the animal, Wiltshire said.
