Coyote

[Egon]

The Coyotes of Cape Breton strike again.

Fortunetly unsucsesfully.

CBC News - Nova Scotia - Coyote attacks girl in N.S. national park

 

[irvingj]

Ugh. I did some research on those critters after I lost one of my chickens a few weeks ago... right in the middle of the day with people outside within 75 feet! The only track I could find it the area was --apparently-- an eastern coyote.

It seems our eastern variety has a fair amount of wolf DNA mixed in, which, compared to the western variety, makes them larger and heavier overall, with a much wider and stronger jaw... and they are going after larger prey than traditionally ascribed to coyotes...

Have you folks been hearing similar?

 

[jimmyj]

That's crazy. Bites on her scalp while sleeping. So it seems that a coyote came into her tent and bit her? I'd love to know more but a cull is in serios order there.

 

[Egon]

She was sleeping outside of the tent.

Should those nasty Grizzly Bears in Nation Parks be culled??

 

[daveshoot]

The cull is already scheduled, according to that story.

National Geographic just had a short article on the eastern coyote "coy-wolf" phenomenon. These are what we saw explode back in Michigan.

As a kid in the 60s, coyotes were unheard of except in the upper peninsula. Now the whole state is crawling with them. The wolf gene, and natural selection favoring larger, longer-legged animals that can hunt in winter, create a super 'yote who is surrounded by abundant large game (deer).

Out here in CA I am surrounded by coyotes, but they are sneaky, mangy little things and nothing like the ones hunting deer back east. There is certainly no shortage of them, lest anyone worry.

 

[wvpolekat]

Open season on 'yotes year round here.

 

[brin]

I am told we have Coyotes here in Georgia now and I think my wife and I saw one crossing a field the other day, it sure was not a fox or a dog...When I let my dog out early ( still dark ) some mornings I hear some howling not far from us...Is that what coyotes sound like ?

 

[sweettractors]

We have plenty here in Ky, They have made it hard on the Rabbit population. At night, I can hear 3 packs of them howling. One north, one south and one east of me. Hardly ever see one in the daytime. Ken Sweet

 

[Thomas]

Not good when the fear factor no longer...wildlife pushing back???

 

[merrickvilleguy]

We have a ton of them here. I catch them on my trail cam daily ... sometimes a single one, sometimes 5-6 in a group ...

People have to realise that wildlife is wild ... unpredictable and very dangerous. We all need to respect it. That being said ... there is no need to fear it.

It's just like how every year we get dopes freeze to death playing survivorman at -40 ... no respect for the outdoors. Thats the problem with city folks coming to the boonies ... they have no idea what they are getting into.