We’ve got coyotes here, too. Right on the coast of NC. They’re bigger than the western coyotes. These look like mangy, starving German Shepherds. I’ve read it’s becasue they cross bred with wolves.
Have also seen pics of the smaller ones here. Almost foxlike in appearance. Reddish colored, you have to look close to see the difference.
Favorite coyote quote:
“It is my personal belief that when the last human has fallen, and the last skull lies on the irradiated earth, a coyote will come trotting out of some safe place. Don’t ask me where he’ll come from; but I believe that he will survive as he has always survived. The coyote will trot in his furtive, skulking manner, to the skull. He will approach it carefully with the caution borne of millenia of avoiding steel traps and snares and pitfall. He will cautiously sniff it. His educated nose will tell him that he no longer has anything to fear from the bleached remnant of a once great civilization. Taking a few short steps to get in the exact position, he will lift his leg.”
Charles L. Cadieux
Coyotes: Predators and Survivors
This and much more at http://www.coyoterescue.org/
To hear the sound of coyotes, go to this site: (#6 is what I hear, almost every night)
http://www.soundboard.com/sb/Wild_Coyote_sounds.aspx