He’s one of the primary reasons I took such an interest in this exact pack above others. He sounds very unique. Plus, I’ve been a railroad fan for 15-20 years, going out day and night, and have never come across another spot where they go nuts at the train horns like this. It...
coyotes in our parks Most parks in San Francisco have one stable resident family, or a loner. Coyotes are not “pack” animals of unrelated individuals. Families “claim” territories which they “own” from which they exclude other coyotes — this is what keeps the population density down. T...
come with “expert hunts” combinations of tones that were created by experienced hunters. These hunts are simple, easy to use, and scarily effective. Calls that are in the running for the title of the best predator call usually come with audio in jacks that let you use your own sounds. ...
This year I’m not sure if the adults in the pack are more than the three in the video. I suppose Mom, who has successfully raised a few litters, is in the habit of leaving newborns behind in their den. I have to assume she knows what she is doing. I think the fact that she ...
Why had the Dad trounced the youngster? Had the pups been playing too “rough”? Had one been trying to dominate the other? Did Dad just need to establish some order, or maybe restore his hierarchy in this pack, the way the mother had in the other family pack I wrote about?
When “disciplining”, the alpha of a family pack gently puts her/his mouth around the snout of a coyote who is out-of-line, and maybe turns the “underdog” on its back for a few moments. This discipline could be reinforced by the alpha placing its paws on the back of the fellow ...
It sounds like the bushes are singing! [audio https://coyoteyipps.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/07/pups-join-the-chorus-7-21.mp3] These pups were just a little over three months old when I made the recording — close in size to those in this photo below, taken elsewhere and at an ea...
Coyotes spend a good deal of their day sleeping. Members of a pack or family may sleep within close proximity of each other, or they may sleep much further apart, but probably within the same couple of acres of each other. They have amazing built-in time clocks, but they also are influ...
There is protocol which must be followed. Parents must be in charge, and youngsters must at all times accept their lower status in a family pack which resides on a territory which is exclusively theirs. This series of photos shows a typical greeting between an almost one-year-old son and ...
Right off I would say that these coyotes probably do not accept you as part of their family pack, as much as they accept you as part of their environment — a safe environment. You have proven to them that you won’t go after them, and they know that. ...