Posted on 05/23/2016 8:36:06 AM PDT by w1n1
I’m a big fan of coyotes. I enjoy seeing them, hearing them and hunting them. I think the reason I like them so much is that I’ve always had a lot of respect for a underdog, which the coyote surely is compared to its more media divisive cousin the wolf, or other charismatic megafauna like the bear. Similar to Rodney Dangerfield, coyotes “don’t get no respect.” Unlike wolves there are no national groups crying for their protection, no one is pleading their case on the steps of the capital. In spite of this, coyotes are without a doubt one of the most successful predators in North America. They are ultimate survivors.
Here are some facts to give you a better understanding of the coyote and maybe help you put a couple extra pelts on your wall this year.
1. General Description
Coyote males typically average between 18 and 44 pounds, while females average between 15 and 40 pounds. Northern subspecies tend to grow larger than southern populations.
2. They've been in North America a long time
The modern coyote shows up in the fossil record during the Middle Pliestocene about 450 thousand years ago, after they diverged grey wolves about 1.5 million years ago.
3. They're speed demons
The coyote can run up to 40 miles per hour. Its animated enemy the roadrunner can only run about 20 miles per hour, making Acme Rockets completely unnecessary in the real world.
4. Coyotes are very mobile can be found almost everywhere.
The 19 subspecies of coyote are found throughout North and Central America, ranging from Panama to the northernmost parts of Canada. Males will travel up to 100 miles to find food and new territory when their current location is overpopulated.
5. Native American mythology Coyotes play major role in the mythology of many Native American tribes. While their description varies, they are often seen as a crafty and intelligent trickster with a voracious appetite. Read the rest of the facts and trivia on coyote here. What are some other facts about coyote that you come across?
A friend of my Dad's used to tell people (including us) about the time he and his Dad saw a game commission truck out in their field. They approached just in time to see some coyotes released from cages in the truck. His Dad told them to get off is property, and to get those animals out of there too. The PGC employees just looked at him, got in their truck, and drove away.
The older, hunting generation NEVER saw a coyote till after that. Now, they are everywhere. There a several that wander across my property - apparently they are breeding with dogs too, from the look of a few of them.
Where are the invasive species nuts on these???
It’s very rare to hear them here but when we do it’s usually then but yes, I agree.
I know they buy most of their stuff from Acme.
My sister lives in a suburb of Seattle - lots of houses all around for blocks/miles. There are ravines in back of at least some of the houses as well as some wooded areas.
I’ve sat outside in the early morning drinking coffee and have seen deer walk through her front yard to the neighbors’ and one time saw a doe, buck and fawn saunter right down the middle of the street. One morning I saw a very large coyote (wasn’t sure if it was a wolf or coyote, but think the later) - scared the dickens out of me and I ran back inside. Only 1 I’ve seen there, but I suspect there are others. My BIL says there have been other coyote sightings in the neighborhood. A few year years ago, there was a cautionary bear sighting. They’re about 15-20 miles from the Cascade foothills, but apparently the bear made it’s way down from there. We’ve had other bear sightings and issues in numerous areas of the Seattle area over the past several years.
So, leave ‘em alone unless they become pests or threats? Or strike preemptively?
If you shoot a coyote “just right” it’ll hop up in the air and then fall down dead.
The More You Know.
You nailed it. A donkey is about the smartest, meanest, nastiest creature on the face of the earth and the Bible even asks if man is up to taming the wild ones. Ought to tell people something, but they don’t get it until they see a Coyote (number 2 on the list of smartest, meanest, nastiest) after it’s been torn up by a donkey.
I was driving through suburban Seattle one very early morning and a coyote crossed over the four lane road with a huge cat in it’s mouth, legs drooping halfway to the pavement from either side of the coyote’s mouth.
Sorry cat lovers (and I like cats), but I had to chuckle at the thought of that big cat stalking the neighborhood and thinking it was at the top of the food chain. And yes - one of the reasons ours is an indoor cat.
I live in Chicago, and coyotes hide out in the forest preserves that ring the city. At night though, they travel along the nearby freight train tracks all the way into the city, then scoot back up the tracks before dawn.
My father put several packs of anti freeze spiked hot dogs about a 100 yards into the woods to hopefully get it. He was quite mad it took his baby
I know a farmer in NW Kansas who hunts them with greyhounds......
He had one magnificent hunter that was part wolf, part Russian Wolfhound and part greyhound....
I have lots and lots of them in my neighborhood.
I live two blocks from the L.A. River ... and 1 block from Griffith Park which is the largest city park in the USA. Very rugged. The coyotes are all over the park and walk down the river and into my neighborhhod. They kill lots of pets.
Of course you are pro-coyote.
You government stooge you.
3. They’re speed demons
The coyote can run up to 40 miles per hour. Its animated enemy the roadrunner can only run about 20 miles per hour, making Acme Rockets completely unnecessary in the real world...........................................
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So, the media has been lying to me my entire life?
They are nasty predators to live around.
A neighbor has a small dog that was on their porch. 4 coyotes lured it out and attacked it. The owner was at the kitchen table and heard the commotion and got to his dog just in time. However the dog ended up needing about 120 stitches and it will now forever be extra timid and afraid.
These coyotes lured the doh away for lunch.
They come I my yard and Daisy & Jasmine will have them for a snack.
They are all over around here as they take a route between my house and my neighbors to get ti the creek in the Summer dry Months.
My GSs keeps them and everything else out of our yard.
Caught this picture of one north of Dallas two years ago, as I was pulling into a grocery store parking lot. It was late summer, around 10:00 a.m. The coyote was headed for a sunken drainage area at the front of the grocery parking lot, which connects under a major roadway with a 36" concrete culvert. On the other side of that drain pipe - a "green belt" area loaded with a cornucopia of rabbits, squirrels, house cats and small stray dogs.
I love to listen to song dogs around my rural property in West Central Missouri. This year we have a population peak of cottontail rabbits and the ‘yotes are raising all their pups.
My feeling is that if you see them much out during daylight, they need some hunting pressure to make them fear us and stay away from the pets and livestock. I had to shoot a sickly looking dog ‘yote last winter when he started to hang about my place.
Something that keeps most of them well away from the farmhouse is to make sure a large carnivore (me and my yellow lab Raylan) marks the perimeter a couple of times a month.
Coyotes jumping fences.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WO4p76uzse0
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