Customers could be heard gasping as officers made several attempts to yank the coyote out of the shelf—finally pulling the animal out by its tail.

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, according to reports from WLS.

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.

It was not known how a coyote found its way to the Aldi at 800 N. Kedzie Ave., but police officers and the city's animal control department helped out, Chicago police said. The coyote will get a health assessment before it's released.

Because it’s coyote mating season, the critters are “more active and may be seen more frequently,” experts say.

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

Image via Instagram Over the years, Walmart has garnered a bit of a bad rap for being a bit of a lawless land where anything goes. But at least it doesn't have a wild coyote. No, that distinction belongs to Aldi.

When video footage showing an officer working to get an animal out of a shelving unit at an Aldi store in Chicago's Humboldt Park began, no one could have predicted what would eventually come out.

Chicago police said officers responded to the Aldi store in the 800 block of North Kedzie Avenue at 9:42 a.m. to a call about an animal inside the business.