Coyote Country: myth vs fact

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  • Опубликовано: 19 мар 2017
  • Jeffco Open Space Visitor Services Manager and myth buster, Mary Ann Bonnell, deconstructs the behavior, habits and biology of coyotes as they impact Jeffco residents. Understand this urban predator and how we can better co-exist with them in part 1 of 3 of the series: Coyote Country.

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  • @RealFudd
    @RealFudd 4 года назад +946

    She never explained where coyotes get the money to buy Acme products.

    • @456swagger
      @456swagger 4 года назад +5

      Are you kidding? This Chick is whacked.

    • @outbackeddie
      @outbackeddie 4 года назад +55

      And she acts like coyotes are smart. How smart can they be if they are always out foxed by a stupid roadrunner?

    • @murphmurph2124
      @murphmurph2124 4 года назад +43

      They are paid from Warner Bros

    • @brentfrank7012
      @brentfrank7012 4 года назад +20

      They get paid for acting in these videos

    • @brianpeters7847
      @brianpeters7847 4 года назад +17

      Lol priceless Thanks for the laugh

  • @stevegrooms1142
    @stevegrooms1142 2 года назад +132

    As someone who has dealt with a lot of myths about wildlife, I expected to cringe through this video. Instead, it was superb. Thank you, Ms Bonnell. I had a friend who raised sheep in a brushy part of our state (Minnesota) where coyotes are common. She used to watch them closely. When coyotes on her land went for the sheep, she went after them. When coyotes set up on her land but showed no interest in sheep, she left them alone.

    • @viewerpet12
      @viewerpet12 2 года назад +3

      bs

    • @AzazelsWings
      @AzazelsWings 2 года назад

      @@viewerpet12 why is that BS? You personally know his friend? ... more likely you're just some bitter jerk, possibly grazing your 5 goats for a couple bucks on public land and under the impression that it's your land onto which nothing else can wander, especially since you don't want to exert any energy into actually taking care of said goats. Run along man.

    • @fjb4932
      @fjb4932 Год назад +3

      Steve Grooms,
      Same with drug dealers. Homies at end of block sold out their back door. But since i don't use, didn't affect me. Let sleeping dogs lie. ...

    • @bonesrhodes3762
      @bonesrhodes3762 Год назад

      ---- so the news reports and videos of coyote attacks on pets are all faked - as was the recent videos of the coyote attempting to take a toddler from the sidewalk with the father 5 feet away in broad daylight ?
      --- and the coyote I watched hunting on the side of University Street in Mobile Ala at the entrance to the University of South Alabama medical facilities during evening rush hour traffic wasn't actually there
      the woman giving the talk is a combination of truths and bald-faced Boving Scat

    • @hillbillyheart217
      @hillbillyheart217 Год назад +6

      Coyotes keep their territories in a pretty good balance. They live in harmony with many other species. I’d rather have a nice home turf coyote group as opposed to a rogue dog clan blow through. Coyotes are efficient killers and live within a balance. Rogue or transitory animals don’t have such care for the land and often just take advantage and tear through.
      My husband is a trapper and tanner…and he never traps for anyone seeking eradication. Eradication attempts only create a void in the lands balance…and every animal desiring more land will come in to battle for it. Embrace a healthy population and understand their motives. Ya just might be surprised.

  • @456swagger
    @456swagger 4 года назад +681

    Yes coyotes are hard to identify because they almost never carry I.D. A clear violation of the law.

    • @jazzcatt
      @jazzcatt 4 года назад +8

      Ha ha ha! Good one!

    • @456swagger
      @456swagger 4 года назад +11

      Yes and some of them carry fake I.D.

    • @phillip_iv_planetking6354
      @phillip_iv_planetking6354 4 года назад +10

      It's law to carry ID?

    • @456swagger
      @456swagger 4 года назад +12

      Yes if You are stopped by law enforcement in the U.S. you must show I.D. but the coyotes don't care. They flout the law at every turn. They never carry cash either which makes them vagrants. Coyotes don't believe in marriage and have children with their bitches out of wedlock. Yes they have very low moral standards.

    • @TRUTHISABSOLUTE777
      @TRUTHISABSOLUTE777 4 года назад +12

      @@456swagger no you don't, unless they have reasonable suspicion at least.

  • @chipsutcliffe7110
    @chipsutcliffe7110 3 года назад +84

    We actively follow coyotes in our community instead of just trying to look large and chasing for a few feet. Otherwise, they will learn they don't have to go far when they are chased. But if you continue to follow them as long as you can, they feel like prey instead of a predator. They stop and see if you are still following them. I have obviously hidden behind a bush so the coyote could see me laying in wait, and it absolutely freaked the coyote out. I watched it run away at full speed... This works!!!

    • @eddysegafan6655
      @eddysegafan6655 Год назад +4

      Absolutely mad lad

    • @frankclewisiv8189
      @frankclewisiv8189 Год назад +1

      Yea until you come across a coywolf

    • @chipsutcliffe7110
      @chipsutcliffe7110 Год назад

      @@frankclewisiv8189 Is that like a ManBearPig? 😆

    • @jeremyboushie1123
      @jeremyboushie1123 Год назад +1

      That’s not smart lol I once watched a female coyote come to a hunters dog teasing and playing he took off after her to play and it was a trap a pack was waiting… it was on RUclips can’t remember the dog breed

    • @chipsutcliffe7110
      @chipsutcliffe7110 Год назад +3

      @@jeremyboushie1123 Dogs are prey for coyotes, depending on the dogs size and age. Humans are not. The coyote makes the decision wether a dog is potential prey, or potentialy a preditor. There have been instances where coyotes have tried to get at pets that owners are carrying. Yes, coyotes hunt in organized packs. This is how they are able to take the old and young deer and other small animals that they would eat in a natural environment.

  • @BushmasterRaZ
    @BushmasterRaZ 5 лет назад +316

    I once saw a pack of raccoons beat the shit out of a coyote. It was a sight to see.

    • @jhonfamo8412
      @jhonfamo8412 4 года назад +26

      O yeah. I believe it 100. Raccoons fight to live to

    • @krispalermo8133
      @krispalermo8133 4 года назад +45

      Raccoons are like chimps, they will kill off their own weaker group members.
      Also raccoons are know in my area to quickly leave the edge of corn field and out right kill farm dogs.
      10 years ago I heard a group of five raccoons killed a friendly police dog within 4 seconds, the poor dog was a mess.
      Every year the police department has to do a kill off cause when the grain fields have been harvest the raccoons start living within the grounds of warehouses and factories. Large ones are a threat to humans and house pets.

    • @ronalds.658
      @ronalds.658 4 года назад +34

      Raccoons are no joke. Sharp teeth, long claws and a bad attitude demands respect.

    • @krispalermo8133
      @krispalermo8133 4 года назад +10

      The strangeness of a corn field in coyotes life. The corn field hides and feeds deer, opossum, rabbits, and raccoons. The coyote feeds on these four animals yet the raccoon also feeds on the coyote.
      What goes through a coyote's mind just before it enters a corn field ?
      " I really needs to make this quick before I get jumped !"

    • @three-stripes
      @three-stripes 4 года назад +4

      I'd pay to see this. Note that I haven't felt like paying a few bucks to see the last two star wars movies. Good thing too, sucked.

  • @abstractplace2013
    @abstractplace2013 4 года назад +464

    I seen three coyotes standing on top of each other in a trench coat trying to get into a theater

    • @johnstewart8849
      @johnstewart8849 4 года назад +9

      Adult movies??

    • @shadowjammer9981
      @shadowjammer9981 4 года назад +25

      I saw one push a boulder off a cliff trying to kill a roadrunner !! 😨

    • @456swagger
      @456swagger 4 года назад +6

      Yeah but I guarantee that there was a fourth Coyotes around that you didn't see. They're sneaky and often wear disguises.

    • @samualwhittemore228
      @samualwhittemore228 4 года назад +2

      They sneak into the drive-in theatre down the road from me...the only problem they have is not having popcorn except what they get fed to them by the people that think they are stray dogs.

    • @456swagger
      @456swagger 4 года назад +5

      Ha, That's nothing. Where I live the older ones try to get the senior citizens discount. The bad thing is that they even have the damn Wolves starting to get into the act.

  • @neh214
    @neh214 3 года назад +32

    Thank you. I personally love Coyotes, my neighbours not so much. Every month I see another post in our suburban newsletter stating "the Coyotes are back". I want to scream. I'm a nocturnal animal lover and I know for a fact that the same mated pair have lived in harmony in our area for years. I'm going to send this post to all of our board members.

    • @joshgroban5291
      @joshgroban5291 3 года назад +11

      Agree. Coyotes get so much shit for just being a wild animal. The only animals that got a worse rap are their big cousins the wolves, who were hunted nearly to extinction. Then everyone turned their anger into coyotes because humans killed their natural enemies

  • @mwbrada
    @mwbrada Год назад +6

    I used to work the overnight shift at a small midwestern hospital. Some nights, as I walked into work I could hear coyotes singing, getting ready for the hunt. It was glorious.

  • @chapiit08
    @chapiit08 5 лет назад +133

    Some hate them, some love them. One thing's for sure, that they will still be here after we all are long gone.

    • @eeeelayna
      @eeeelayna 4 года назад +4

      chapiit08 well said. for that, you at least have to respect them

    • @djpoolservice
      @djpoolservice 4 года назад +11

      chapiit08 an old Indian saying says that when the world ends, there will only be two animals left. A coyote and another coyote! We here in Arizona refer to them as “Gods Dog”!

    • @alwaysopen7970
      @alwaysopen7970 4 года назад +9

      Cockroaches and coyotes.

    • @djpoolservice
      @djpoolservice 4 года назад +3

      Yes they will! They are “Gods Dogs”!

    • @joshgroban5291
      @joshgroban5291 3 года назад +3

      @@alwaysopen7970 don't forget mice. Annoying bastards because they know how to persist! I respect that tho

  • @tommywilliams5140
    @tommywilliams5140 Год назад +8

    I came home one night after watching a movie at a friends house and on my front step was a dog that really looked like a Coyote but ended up spending 12 years with me. I miss him he was unbreakable I respected that dog so much.

  • @Atzy
    @Atzy 4 года назад +59

    That's a very urban coyote at 10:03, he even looked both ways while crossing the street XD

    • @johnnyshd8250
      @johnnyshd8250 3 года назад

      Rabies, man !

    • @hydrolito
      @hydrolito 2 года назад +1

      Had to learn to live in an urban area to avoid the wolves.

  • @bobcourtier4674
    @bobcourtier4674 4 года назад +173

    They’re smarter than some people.

    • @martyyoung3611
      @martyyoung3611 4 года назад +29

      They're smarter than most people.

    • @fierceapes
      @fierceapes 4 года назад +13

      If you see a rocket on the back of a coyote, that's definitely a dumb one.

    • @carolyn9andthecats653
      @carolyn9andthecats653 4 года назад +8

      @@fierceapes lol or if you see a coyote w/ ANYTHING made from "Acme" company.....you just know that particular one is stupid, yet determined and never seems die.

    • @taekwondotime
      @taekwondotime 4 года назад +9

      They're smarter than the woman in this video that's for sure.

    • @fleuger99
      @fleuger99 4 года назад +5

      Frogs are smarter than most people!

  • @bsjcook
    @bsjcook 6 лет назад +282

    We live in the mountains of Colorado, and raise a few chickens. We have to completely cage the chicken run due to the many predators that would eat them. Our philosophy is that we live in a zoo, and we are in cages so that the natural wildlife can live in their way. It's worked for us for over 19 years.

    • @stefanodogg280
      @stefanodogg280 6 лет назад +14

      Double chicken wire over deer or plaster lattice steel will keep even a racoon out

    • @bsjcook
      @bsjcook 6 лет назад +28

      Stefano, we have bears and mountain lions too so we used 1.5 x 3 square welded wire and then half inch square mesh going two feet up the 6 ft tall fence and out 2 feet at the bottom. Then hawk mesh over the top of the run and so far so good for 3 years.... Thanks for your input and helping others .... Dick

    • @peterm.eggers520
      @peterm.eggers520 5 лет назад +7

      A flimsy hot wire properly installed keeps all furred predators at bay.

    • @peterm.eggers520
      @peterm.eggers520 5 лет назад +10

      Perseverance13: Chicken wire (2 ft x 150 ft, 2" mesh, ~$20) laid down on the ground at the fence line with the fence over the top, keeps diggers like fox, coyotes, and dogs out. For fox and coyote, it probably smells like a leghold trap to them. Dogs that will dig through rocks and landscape timber seem to have an aversion to getting the wire between their toes.
      Never had to worry about badgers. They could be a serious problem as they are Olympic class diggers.

    • @bluepuppy1139
      @bluepuppy1139 5 лет назад +7

      That is the very best and environmentally resonsible way I have heard.

  • @little_lion_heart9850
    @little_lion_heart9850 5 лет назад +31

    i lived right outside of Death Valley as a kid and the coyotes were pretty scrawny since it was a desert area. In the neighborhood they would show up near any events, neighborhood cookouts and such. They waited a few hundred feet away hoping when the people left there would be food left over but they weren't aggressive and remained fearful of people. They didn't come after pets and children in backyards. now i live in florida and they are a bit bigger here and will take a cat or small dog if they get the chance but still are very people shy and will run if they see you.

  • @travisg1518
    @travisg1518 4 года назад +16

    You can't misidentify a coyote yelp, it's so distinct, almost like a hyenas laugh, and in the middle of the night right outside Superior, Arizona, you'll get woken up to hundreds of thousands of them screaming into the night. It's a very scary experience especially if you camp alone.

    • @joshgroban5291
      @joshgroban5291 3 года назад +5

      Fox screams are also terrifying. I thought people were getting murdered

    • @woozziewooify
      @woozziewooify Год назад +2

      @@joshgroban5291 no a bob cat or lynx has a terrifying scream

    • @nickclark18
      @nickclark18 Год назад +2

      Coyotes don't travel in packs of "hundreds of thousands" quit lyin

    • @chasemathis2016
      @chasemathis2016 Год назад

      Yotes actually don't travel in large numbers at all. Around me they really only travel in 2-3 at most. You'll usually get one doing iconic howl while the others do smaller yips and barks. It all kind of bleeds together and ends up sounding like an entire army of those damn things.

  • @GrnXnham
    @GrnXnham 2 года назад +14

    I live in a rural area. One night after dark while I was jogging on a road near my house, I heard something behind me. I looked back and there was a coyote about 50 feet back that was chasing me. I imagine that it saw me running and that predator/prey instinct kicked in and it gave chase.
    When I saw the coyote, I turned around and charged at it while performing the meanest sounding growl that I could produce. The coyote tucked it's tail between it's legs and took off.

    • @jessiefayne4083
      @jessiefayne4083 2 года назад +1

      A few years ago here in Ohio there was a coyote that attacked someone on a lawn mower that was cutting grass wasn't scared at all it was all over the news

  • @valkimber3706
    @valkimber3706 4 года назад +53

    Everyone knows coyotes are super-geniuses that have a fetish for killing roadrunners and sometimes,rabbits.

    • @RaquelSantos-hj1mq
      @RaquelSantos-hj1mq 3 года назад +6

      They try to kill the roadrunners, but they never quite succeed.

    • @pucklife3370
      @pucklife3370 3 года назад +2

      Everyone knows the roadrunner always outsmarts the coyote!

    • @alymig70
      @alymig70 2 года назад +3

      Wabbits

    • @Foozkillah
      @Foozkillah 2 года назад +2

      You meant Wabbits, Val.... Wabbits....

    • @valkimber3706
      @valkimber3706 2 года назад

      @@Foozkillah wabbits indeed :)

  • @stevenwilson6450
    @stevenwilson6450 5 лет назад +89

    I'll make sure to show this presentation to my Alpha Mule and Donkeys. They seem to think any Coyote is fair game for the "hoof dance".

    • @CajunA79
      @CajunA79 4 года назад +7

      Lol...my horse is mean to them too!

    • @truckert9729
      @truckert9729 4 года назад +5

      My mother has mules for a wagon team ( parades and what not ) ya they have broke through a fence to chase one off.

    • @shank492
      @shank492 4 года назад +4

      Jenny's will stomp a coyote to death if they can catch them. Cattle ranchers in Texas keep Jenny's in a pasture with cattle, especially if they have calves.

    • @CryMeARiver63
      @CryMeARiver63 4 года назад +2

      @@shank492 we do they same in SC .

    • @desotofiresweep58
      @desotofiresweep58 4 года назад +2

      Those must be super skinny welfare coyotes in Aurora Colorado.
      the reason they're so hard to identify is because people are fucking stupid.
      We have a lot of coy dogs here.
      To see a 50 or 60 lb coyote around here is nothing unusual.
      And I love it when they get out in the pasture with the
      calves so I can watch the Jenny mule stop them to death, it's all in good fun to her

  • @jasminewood395
    @jasminewood395 4 года назад +21

    Been preaching the good pack vs bad pack issue.
    Ranchers often just kill any they can but at our farm we managed them carefully and maintained a very useful passive pack but bad ones did need to go, was a crowded area

  • @kevink552
    @kevink552 3 года назад +25

    I love the way they look through a 4x12 Leupold just as the dot settles.

  • @jeffbingaman2754
    @jeffbingaman2754 6 лет назад +127

    So a coyote diet consists of anything in abundance.

    • @holyfreeholy2329
      @holyfreeholy2329 5 лет назад +4

      Jeff Bingaman they always come to the farm. We have lots of dogs here small and big so we keep them inside and have them out only under surveillance. Like we go outside with them. Neighbors fed cats so that attacked them among the wild melons and other plants. And the many variety of fruit and corn here.
      So we watch out. We are in the rural side of town so we see and hear them at night.
      So as long as your careful you should be ok.

    • @Keys879
      @Keys879 5 лет назад +3

      A friend up around Ward keeps a compost pile on the far end of the property he lives on. His animals have never really had problems with the coyotes, who seem to prefer to scavenge the fruits, veggies, and meat scraps tossed out by the family into the compost. He claims they poop and he just mixes it right in. Makes for excellent tomatoes/fruits. Cougars however.....

    • @ralphcraig5816
      @ralphcraig5816 5 лет назад +6

      @@Keys879 We have black bears around too, they mostly behave themselves because of beanbag loads for the shotguns, though one did into my neighbor's big henhouse, start wolfing down eggs. The egg lady took exception, sold the bear meat to a wholesaler who deals in game meat, left the head chained to the fence and has an interesting rug. However, no beanbags for big cats...

    • @chipcatz
      @chipcatz 5 лет назад +1

      Jeff Bingaman yup

    • @chipcatz
      @chipcatz 5 лет назад

      Other than kids

  • @KFrost-fx7dt
    @KFrost-fx7dt 6 лет назад +112

    I like watching them. I used to do security at night and would shoo them off the sites often. It was pretty pointless though. The workers left food and trash everywhere and this attracted mice, which attracted the coyotes. They would just come inside after I left the immediate area. I took it as a good sign. If the coyotes were acting normally that probably meant there were no theives or vandals around.

  • @russellthompson8414
    @russellthompson8414 3 года назад +8

    I lived on Mather AFB in the Sacramento, Ca. area in the very early 1990s. We had lots of grasslands, Jack rabbits, and coyotes. Our worst problem with the coyotes is they would sun themselves on the runway. An acquaintance learned a bit about how they hunt rabbits. He was in the tall grass with his dog off leash. He heard some Coyotes coming, and grabbed his dogs collar, just as several coyotes came buy. They had formed two lines. The ones in the back were making noise to scare the rabbits. The ones in the front were silent looking for the rabbis trying to make a hasty retreat. I worked in environmental management there for a year and a half, we really never had a problem. But then, we had plenty of rabbits.

  • @kelseymardlin2375
    @kelseymardlin2375 2 года назад +5

    Here in rural Michigan, coyote season is year round. I've lived outside of town about 5 years now and have only ever heard them, never seen one. But boy can you hear them during mating season! The woods get loud

  • @michaelsanders8799
    @michaelsanders8799 5 лет назад +20

    This is a really great video. A lot of this is already very familiar. Reviewing that which I was familiar with was equally refreshing. I have subscribed to your youtube channel. Please continue posting these videos.

  • @Mr.CliffysWorld
    @Mr.CliffysWorld 2 года назад +6

    I stopped hunting about 7 years ago (due to health issues). When I stopped, coyotes were so numerous in west central Ohio that they were considered varmints and subject to open season, year round .

  • @nicholasplesko533
    @nicholasplesko533 2 года назад +3

    Two coyotes ripped my cat's jugular. I watched him bleed out, on the way to the vet. That cat was an excellent hunter, and I'm going to make a coyote blanket.

    • @solowstang9821
      @solowstang9821 2 года назад

      Hope you got your blanket bro

    • @rebeccahicks2392
      @rebeccahicks2392 2 года назад +1

      I'm sorry for your loss, but the coyotes were following the same hunting instinct that your cat had, neither is better nor worse than the other.

  • @vincentw4881
    @vincentw4881 4 года назад +42

    I love this lady....shes so real and loving.

    • @FixingCrappyCars
      @FixingCrappyCars 4 года назад +3

      Yeah I'd hit it

    • @tomrose6292
      @tomrose6292 3 года назад +2

      She's paid to express the states opinion. Kill them all.

    • @tomrose6292
      @tomrose6292 3 года назад +1

      @@FixingCrappyCars I would too.

    • @malcolmt7883
      @malcolmt7883 3 года назад +1

      That's both a fact and a myth

    • @tomrose6292
      @tomrose6292 3 года назад

      @Jerry Davis lmfao

  • @kiddykatnesscorral4613
    @kiddykatnesscorral4613 5 лет назад +14

    I'm on the back side of a neighborhood and they have been yipping it up for years but low and behold, a young one got stuck in the top of my chain link fence for a few uncomfortable minutes but after one last snarl it got loose. Now I couldn't figure out what had changed to attract it till two days later when I investigated another strange noise and there was a armadillo, that had to be the extraordinary attraction it was after. Each year its something wild and for some reason my neighbour's on either side never have anything abnormal happen.
    Who knows, next it will be Bigfoot dropping by...ah Nature, gotta love it.!

  • @HarleyChapin
    @HarleyChapin 4 года назад +32

    i live out in the wooded country - we have packs of coyotes - for the most part they leave ppl alone - every now and then one will get out of line and attack a pet or try to grab a chicken or young calf or goat but 95% of the time they stay away from ppl - I enjoy watching them and love to hear them talk with each other

    • @kholbrook203
      @kholbrook203 4 года назад +5

      Harley Chapin I agree with you. I also love hearing wolves howling. I dispose people that trap because it is so inhumane. Live and let lice. Where I live, we have coyotes coming in. I think they are being chased away from where they originally lived because of development. Now when you go to the feed store you’ll hear some jerk boasting about the one he just killed. I’m excited about them but afraid for them too.

  • @ridedaily23
    @ridedaily23 Год назад +4

    Facilitating and extremely informative. Thank you for creating and sharing this content.

  • @tomrose6292
    @tomrose6292 3 года назад +4

    It was so cold here yesterday,I saw two yotes running with a pair of jumper cables trying to get a rabbit started

  • @o2boutdoors
    @o2boutdoors Год назад +3

    Great presentation! I've been around coyotes in suburban and rural environments for most of my life. Learned several things in this video.

  • @georgecollins9388
    @georgecollins9388 2 года назад +40

    Loved coyotes all my life since I was 6 years old, when I had to feed and water a "pet coyote", (I was given that chore by my dad) It was scary and I never knew what to say or do when I approached him. He wasn't really a pet. He was a coyote in captivity and confined against his will. In a dream I had, he finally escaped. I ran to his pen and he was gone. I'm 73 now but I will never ever forget him and deeply love coyotes to this day. Sometimes I run into them around here and hope that we understand each other.

  • @pychohobo1832
    @pychohobo1832 4 года назад +39

    This is funny.
    First I'm really rural.
    I've had coyotes 20 feet from me, at the same time 20 feet from dogs. They, the coyotes just keep digging.
    I though it was odd. My dogs didn't attack them, and they didn't attack me or the dogs.
    The coyote around me travel in 2s and 3s, but there are far more then that. My guess is around 50 of them. At times I hear them 360 degrees around. But now seem to stay at least a half mile away. A few months back I seen some feral dogs, I think they are pushing the coyote back. Which I'm not happy about since they coyotes seem to have a live let live attitudes with me.
    Ones around me appear to live on rodents and rabbits.
    Someone may ask why I don't mind the coyote. Here is why. Coyote eat rodents. Less rodents means less snakes. I have a lot of rodents and snakes.
    I use to have a couple eagles around but haven't seen them in about 3 years. When the eagles disappeared the snake population boomed. Last eagle I seen was a little one that flew into my house.

    • @SgtHawk13
      @SgtHawk13 Год назад +1

      I just encountered 6 of them near my park. I was walking my lab and they didn't do anything, they were so chill, just watching us, and my dog didn't care as well lol. but I was thinking they was planning an attack on us so I just walked away, I kinda wanted to stay there a bit longer lol

    • @bison2022
      @bison2022 Год назад +1

      Snakes curb rodent growth.

  • @jerrybobteasdale
    @jerrybobteasdale 4 года назад +9

    I have never seen a coyote so accustomed to urban environments as those in the video. It looks REALLY strange.

  • @jarvisfamily3837
    @jarvisfamily3837 4 года назад +13

    Like almost everyone we live in coyote country. We raise goats and brought up three kids here. Used to have one 'yote sit out over the rise behind the house who'd just watch the house in spring. I think it was a female making sure we weren't going to mess with her kits. Trail cameras pick them up on a regular basis. Never had problem #1 with them. Never figured out where they den up, but I know they're there. Like 'em a whole lot better'n some of my human neighbors...

  • @ohokay4663
    @ohokay4663 3 года назад +33

    I love coyotes! I grew up on the edge right between suburban and rural NC, and there was a pack of coyotes that I never really got to *see,* but I heard them pretty often- and pretty close a few times. They helped me fall asleep :)

    • @brentwilliams102
      @brentwilliams102 2 года назад

      "What's interesting is to watch coyote poo throught the seasons. It's kinda fun"
      I laughed out loud on that one.
      No it is not.

    • @Sugarsail1
      @Sugarsail1 2 года назад +1

      coyotes suck, they chew on our irrigation lines and eat our chickens.

  • @Vernbubba
    @Vernbubba 2 года назад +6

    Coyotes and cockroaches the last things standing. I’ve caught lots of coyotes in snares and it never gets old. Very smart critter

    • @wreckitjax
      @wreckitjax Год назад

      The only cockroach is you. Leave the freaking wild dogs alone.

    • @Vernbubba
      @Vernbubba Год назад

      @@wreckitjax caught 5 this week thanks for giving me the incentive to keep catching them

    • @wreckitjax
      @wreckitjax Год назад

      @@Vernbubba it’s ok I’ll just bang your wife on the side like I’ve been doing for the past 5 years. She’s fat but she’s freaky. You keep killing animals like a little Pansy.

    • @Vernbubba
      @Vernbubba Год назад

      @@wreckitjax only thing you’ve ever banged was your dick with your hand Move out of your moms basement so you quit fantasizing about her and get on with your gay life

  • @IMCcanTWEESTED
    @IMCcanTWEESTED 2 года назад +8

    Without coyotes, my neighborhood would be nothing but wall-to-wall small rodents, squirrels, jack-rabbits, and stray cats. God bless the coyotes. They maintain balance. Besides the puppies are so cute! My 90 pound Shepherd/Pitt went bounding into a thicket and I heard a scatter of motion close by and a scared and disoriented pup came flying out. He saw me and went right back into the brush. Evidently he/she was more afraid of me than my dog.

  • @rush2124u2
    @rush2124u2 5 лет назад +4

    Thanks that was very informative Mary Ann Bonnell,

  • @SunChaserWildlife
    @SunChaserWildlife 5 лет назад +8

    Well done, Mary Ann! Thank you!

  • @brucekingsbury1674
    @brucekingsbury1674 2 года назад +2

    EXCELLENT Presentation and information!!! Everybody should listen to this one.

  • @karenbuchert3377
    @karenbuchert3377 2 года назад

    Great speech! Thanks. Extremely well supported by photography. Charismatic and talented host. It was very informative!! Awesome!

  • @nafuregal1288
    @nafuregal1288 5 лет назад +6

    Saw a documentary on the SUPER COYOTE. They have bred w wolves and become larger in many areas.

  • @VirtuesOfSin
    @VirtuesOfSin 6 лет назад +381

    So uh... I'm 99.99% sure that Identifying a Coyote is easy.... At least for me and my family.

    • @jazzcatt
      @jazzcatt 6 лет назад +37

      It's very easy for me to tell the difference in a 'yote, dog and wolf, even in very dim light. Their shape is different and the way they move is different.

    • @wadopotato33
      @wadopotato33 5 лет назад +30

      She is talking to a bunch of generational city folks. In the country they are treated like pests and are rightfully not tolerated on farm property.

    • @theresamacdonald6319
      @theresamacdonald6319 5 лет назад +8

      @@wadopotato33 this is true! But u never no when they will turn on u also. It only takes a sec to attack!

    • @linguinepast3743
      @linguinepast3743 5 лет назад +2

      Me too

    • @RU-zm7wj
      @RU-zm7wj 5 лет назад +25

      Their norm is not to attack humans. I live in close contact with them daily, They attack if it's advantageous to them. Things that are small and will put up no or minimal resistance. Lapdogs are at risk but medium to large dogs are not. There are many advantages to having them around for pest control, but in the U.S. all predators are killed, so you'll never convince a rural person of tolerating wolves, coyotes, bears or any other predator on four feet. I work on a golf course, and one female Coyote follows me around to all the holes I am working on, she never comes closer than 3 meters, they are just smart curious animals, co-existence is easy with her and the other Coyotes that inhabit the area, their main diet is rodents, rabbits, and insects. I respect them but feel no fear when they are around, I enjoy them and feel safe, in fact.

  • @kristenlandon1538
    @kristenlandon1538 2 года назад +1

    This was very helpful and informative. Thank you.

  • @markkubiak8296
    @markkubiak8296 3 года назад +1

    Thank you, Mary Ann Bonnell! Excellent presentation.

  • @coleparker
    @coleparker 2 года назад +4

    Nice video. Historical note, back in the mid 19th century and earlier coyotes were pretty much contained in the west and southwest regions of the US and Northern Mexico region. As the young woman points out, the removal of the larger predators like the wolves allowed them to expand their territories. Also as of this year 2022, there have been more brazen attacks on young children in So. Cal where I live.

  • @melissacollins6679
    @melissacollins6679 4 года назад +6

    She is the coyote lawyer

    • @BernadetteColognne
      @BernadetteColognne 3 года назад

      Maybe she should take them home with her so she could have an up close and personal experience and show us how she can mitigate with them!

  • @RSTI191
    @RSTI191 2 года назад +2

    My wife and I have a Coyote/Husky (Coyusky) she's about 1 year old and the sweetest thing.
    She came running over to us in the Mojave Desert, nothing but skin and bones at the time.
    She gets along great with our senior Basset, G/shepherd, and 2 small terriers.
    She's great, recommend one highly..

  • @s.patrciabrady
    @s.patrciabrady 11 месяцев назад

    Great Job explaining and educating folks about Coyotes. Thank You 👍😊

  • @grimsonforce7504
    @grimsonforce7504 4 года назад +6

    When she said its a parenting problem not a coyote one. Subscribed. People are stupid. Give me a coyote any day.

  • @mrderinheaven
    @mrderinheaven 5 лет назад +11

    Dude this only plays in my right ear with my headphones I got so pissed I thought I broke mine😂🤦‍♀️

  • @thomasnugent7602
    @thomasnugent7602 4 года назад

    Very informative and educational. Thank you very much

  • @montysonful
    @montysonful 2 года назад +1

    Great presentation. Thanks.

  • @coyotedocumentaries5028
    @coyotedocumentaries5028 7 лет назад +52

    This is a really nice and educational video about coyotes. I'll be looking forward to seeing the other parts of this series.

    • @donbaxley5530
      @donbaxley5530 6 лет назад +7

      That lady is full of shit! I live in Riverside. Coyotes are much bigger than 30 lbs. We have already had verified reports of them jumping 8 foot fences and attacking pets and small children! You go ahead and think they all are 30 lbs and will leave your kids alone!

    • @TheBarefootedGardener
      @TheBarefootedGardener 6 лет назад +6

      Don Baxley They live in Colorado, and are talking about the Western Coyote. If you live in the eastern or central USA, we have coywolves or Eastern Coyotes which crossbred with wolves decades ago. They are much bigger, about 75 pounds.

    • @googlesucks2940
      @googlesucks2940 6 лет назад +4

      Coyote Documentaries: damn mangy Coyotes are killers

    • @spizz6744
      @spizz6744 6 лет назад +1

      I love coyotes

    • @bertanelson8062
      @bertanelson8062 6 лет назад

      Yes. Coyotes are smarter than people. Let's put hubris aside & learn, if we can!

  • @geraldherbst5069
    @geraldherbst5069 Год назад +9

    As a Trapper I can guarantee it’s one of the most sustainable things in the world and has been for as long as mankind has been around. Controlling its numbers is vital to its health, if you notice many of the coyotes in this story are impacted by the mange that is a slow death.

    • @karendegraaf1146
      @karendegraaf1146 Год назад +2

      Trapping is a painful, prolonged, cruel death, too...

  • @leedee4968
    @leedee4968 4 года назад

    Very interesting and high-quality video thanks

  • @drizler
    @drizler 2 года назад +1

    I was a Corrections Officer At FCI Englewood in 1982-84. We only manned one tower and that was only in the evening. We used to sit up there and watch those yotes roam through the neighborhoods nearby constantly. They were completely at home in peoples back yards.

  • @mrpatriot8279
    @mrpatriot8279 6 лет назад +76

    We have lots of coyotes out here in the Arizona desert and I hear them howling often. Often the dogs will join in the singing including my brothers wolf-dog hybreds. I've been around them all my life but the javalina or pig-like critters are more dangerous out here. It ticks me off when transplants from urban areas complain about the coyotes and other predators out here. These outsiders moving out here are pushing the wildlife out as more out of staters move here, mostly retirees for our warmer weather. The coyotes are shy here but we do have an occasional mountain lion and bob cats. A pack of coatimudi related to racoons killed my neighbors goose and several chickens. If transplants don't like that then stay in town or the city.

    • @nowahblanco9935
      @nowahblanco9935 5 лет назад +5

      True. I use to live in pima county and javalinas are very dangerous. Travel in packs to.

    • @countessratzass5408
      @countessratzass5408 5 лет назад +11

      The transplants are dismissive of the rhythm of nature and don’t care to learn. We were raised in the Appalachians and respect wildlife, learning to be aware at all times. Those javelinas sound nasty. I live in a large city now and the predators are more ruthless and 100 times more stupid.

    • @grimsonforce7504
      @grimsonforce7504 4 года назад +5

      Agree! Tired of citidiots ruining quiet living. Stay in the damn city if you hate the slow pace and wildlife.

    • @CSDonohue11
      @CSDonohue11 4 года назад +3

      Yea, I’ve always been able to just scare them off as they’ve started coming into the city more with the city coming out to invade in their territory as well, so I always just scare them off so they aren’t comfortable in the neighborhoods.
      I don’t ever try to hurt them and I’m always carrying , so that gives me extra security but I don’t want them getting to comfortable around the neighborhoods with the pets and children.
      They don’t attack children usually but they will eat anything they can if they’re starving so It’s best to just keep them @ bay.
      It’s surprises me sometimes when I see how far down into the city they come a lot of times.

    • @Paul-gz5dp
      @Paul-gz5dp 4 года назад

      @@countessratzass5408 They also think the police are there to protect them, when facts are they are there to enforce the laws and we have to for the most part look our for our own safety.

  • @jopalo31675
    @jopalo31675 5 лет назад +38

    Here’s a funny story. I was in the US Army’s National Training Center. I was in an observation post and we were swarmed by coyotes( approximately 25-30). These Coyotes came from the hills and caves... it was a little hairy. They must’ve thought we were dead. Oh... this was our desert warfare center. We fought them back. Yes... it must’ve been a good 10 minutes of hazing(including the firing of blank rounds. Yes... they can be aggressive one hungry... like anything else!

    • @mrs.schmenkman
      @mrs.schmenkman 4 года назад +1

      jopalo31675 I think you actually ended up in the middle of mating season where they gather up at night....?

    • @funkmonster
      @funkmonster 4 года назад +2

      Sounds like a bullshit story but ok

    • @PT3VIDZ
      @PT3VIDZ 4 года назад +6

      I've been there with the 2AD and the coyotes have no fear of soldiers. We had a few close encounters ourselves. I was with C Co. 3/41st INF. I went twice. Saw coyotes both years.

    • @CSDonohue11
      @CSDonohue11 4 года назад +9

      Yup. Exactly, people are acting like they don’t attack humans but they’ll eat anything they can when starving , especially little humans.

    • @tavspop
      @tavspop 3 года назад

      @@CSDonohue11 How about showing some statistics, you s*** talker.

  • @JK-cz6bu
    @JK-cz6bu 4 года назад +13

    It is crazy looking at coyote scat and seeing the teeth and bones of little rodents.

    • @jackvoss175
      @jackvoss175 2 года назад +1

      That is exactly the same thing you’d see in a owl pod. We can thank both coyotes and owls for thinning out rodents. In India, they use cobras for that job. I prefer coyotes and owls.
      Courtesy of Half Vast Flying.

  • @audreygreen-hite2075
    @audreygreen-hite2075 4 года назад +1

    I've been around rural coyotes have studied them for years however this was very educational I have only guessed on urban behavior and she showed I was wrong on a couple of my theories thanks for the info. Luca

  • @josephbourque1032
    @josephbourque1032 5 лет назад +5

    Thank you for an informative, dispassionate well-researched discussion of coyotes and their behavior. They are an essential part of the ecosystem as are foxes, wolves, big cats and other predators. The more we understand about them, the less we have to fear and the more we will have safe interactions with them.

  • @JasonJBrunet
    @JasonJBrunet 4 года назад +6

    I live in Jefferson Parish in Louisiana, and how I wish my Jefferson was like yours. We have no public employees who care about anything like this.

  • @davemurdock7727
    @davemurdock7727 3 года назад +1

    Great video 👍🏻 very informative

  • @pomeranianserenader9238
    @pomeranianserenader9238 4 года назад

    Nice video. Thankyou for all the coyote info. I’ve seen a few with mange. Scary animal

  • @austynstevens6641
    @austynstevens6641 4 года назад +8

    I am from Pueblo West and coyotes are ramped out there! It’s actually scary hearing them cry at night especially when you hear them calling to each other and you hear how many are really in a pack!

  • @andrewchadwell2759
    @andrewchadwell2759 5 лет назад +15

    Here in dallas there have been 3 coyote attacks on fully grown adult humans. One literally jumped on a man jogging and bit him in the neck

    • @susanolson3611
      @susanolson3611 5 лет назад +1

      check this out
      ruclips.net/video/NqVE9qfg7yI/видео.html

  • @SuperCinemaCraft
    @SuperCinemaCraft 2 года назад +2

    If you don't train your dog to stay off the couch will it get on the couch? Absolutely! This is a very informative video

  • @LassieFarm
    @LassieFarm Год назад

    I was in the youth work program 30 years ago. Was an amazing experience. Helped build several new parks. Dude named Kim was the director

  • @KFrost-fx7dt
    @KFrost-fx7dt 6 лет назад +47

    Great info about their interactions with dogs. Some people don't get that wildlife doesn't want to play with their dogs.

    • @joemcmurry7768
      @joemcmurry7768 5 лет назад +4

      They want to kill them and eat them.

    • @theresamacdonald6319
      @theresamacdonald6319 5 лет назад +2

      I totally agree with u guys they want to eat them lure them in the woods then the pack attacks

    • @mr.x2567
      @mr.x2567 5 лет назад

      People usually hate wild animals because they are not like them

    • @stephensaines7100
      @stephensaines7100 5 лет назад +1

      Actually some do! Wolves especially have been known to play endlessly with domestic dogs. And carnal interest too...

    • @ginidontthinkso4282
      @ginidontthinkso4282 4 года назад

      @@joemcmurry7768 Well small dogs, large dogs are a different game

  • @v.skeggjoar7307
    @v.skeggjoar7307 Год назад +2

    I invested in my own pack, to deal with my coyote problem. 5 Rottweilers made very quick work of them all, and the neighbors loss of his lambs stopped as well. To date there have been 0 problems for 9 yrs now.

  • @jeffsiegwart
    @jeffsiegwart Год назад

    Great information. Thank you.

  • @richardkev3077
    @richardkev3077 7 месяцев назад

    Excellent. I’ve had to deal with rural and suburban coyotes many times over the years. This was all great information.

  • @sector69102
    @sector69102 5 лет назад +20

    A coyote almost attacked me today. I screamed at it and it ran away though 👍

    • @countessratzass5408
      @countessratzass5408 5 лет назад +8

      Lower your voice and get big but don’t run.

    • @browningmaxus5360
      @browningmaxus5360 4 года назад +7

      Good girl

    • @laylabono4035
      @laylabono4035 4 года назад

      Did you had your hamburger in your hands..

    • @percyhawkins716
      @percyhawkins716 4 года назад +1

      They always run when I try to put the leash on them.

    • @tavspop
      @tavspop 3 года назад +2

      When you say attacked you, you actually mean it looked at you. Correct?

  • @mikeleikam2892
    @mikeleikam2892 6 лет назад +160

    If you can't tell the difference between a coyote and a wolf you should just stay home! The face is different ,the ears are different. The pelt markings are different.

    • @ralphcraig5816
      @ralphcraig5816 5 лет назад +17

      And the hybrids? Thing is in the East, there is extreme surplus of deer, and coywolves are big enough to take a whitetail. We don't have those in the West, and mule deer can protect themselves, packs will go after fawns and yearlings. When they do in my neighborhood, we all hear them yelping it up...

    • @theresamacdonald6319
      @theresamacdonald6319 5 лет назад

      @@ralphcraig5816 what country r u from like where is east and west for u!

    • @BobGymlan
      @BobGymlan 5 лет назад +4

      You gotta learn sometimes.

    • @ralphcraig5816
      @ralphcraig5816 5 лет назад +3

      @@theresamacdonald6319 Anything east of the Rockies is the East to many in my part of the world, I'm a little more parochial, Sierras is my dividing line, except for Reno. My coyote alarm system is a flock of wild turkeys and a covey of California quail. I had a bobcat attack a couple of raccoons that were harvesting the acorns on my roof, the raccoons held their own, I went to see the deal, the cat took off, then the neighbor's dogs got after it. Big excitement in the hills...

    • @theresamacdonald6319
      @theresamacdonald6319 5 лет назад +1

      @@ralphcraig5816 ok thanks. Im from canada

  • @gonefishin2271
    @gonefishin2271 3 года назад

    came across a western diamond back too wow amazing. The wild animals in my backyard which happens to be a few thousand square acres of prairie land are thriving, I know they feel my vibration of love and compassion

  • @stevenkaskus6173
    @stevenkaskus6173 2 года назад

    Great info and speaker thanks.

  • @babettelewis5771
    @babettelewis5771 5 лет назад +4

    Very informative story here, just moved to Colorado and I do hope to see coyotes and learn from them also. Thank you so much for your sharing!

  • @CompactCowboy
    @CompactCowboy 5 лет назад +33

    Man my left ear feels great

    • @johnstewart8849
      @johnstewart8849 4 года назад +1

      Liam Pitney Somebody scratching you behind it?....making your leg bicycle?

    • @JSWilliamssr
      @JSWilliamssr 4 года назад +3

      Mine too! I stream video into my hearing aids, and this video only plays in my left ear. :D

    • @Life_Is_Hilarious
      @Life_Is_Hilarious 4 года назад

      LOL !!

    • @Life_Is_Hilarious
      @Life_Is_Hilarious 4 года назад

      I thought my right ear bud fell out. LOL

    • @MrCpete84
      @MrCpete84 4 года назад

      My left ear has a head ache lol

  • @oscar3eyes
    @oscar3eyes 2 года назад

    Thanks for posting.

  • @annalawson9989
    @annalawson9989 2 дня назад

    great information, thanks for sharing ❤

  • @Treehouse1730
    @Treehouse1730 5 лет назад +7

    Link the other two programs in this series in the description so we can find them...

  • @coiledsteel8344
    @coiledsteel8344 4 года назад +18

    The more we try to eliminate them the faster they rebound - a natural survival response to their demise.
    Leave good ones alone, or not so good one roaming may take it's place! Coyote Math 1-1 = 1!

    • @rutee4614
      @rutee4614 4 года назад +1

      Thank you! Its like the rare color phase ones. They are like "wow these are so rare and we want tk understand more because we dont know about it."......ok so logic says don't shoot it, if you want to understand it, because now its not just rare, its extinct.

    • @plooker39
      @plooker39 4 года назад

      Like I said, 1-1 equals another pelt.

  • @megangray7769
    @megangray7769 5 лет назад +2

    Thank you! VERY HELPFUL 👍

  • @got2kittys
    @got2kittys 2 года назад +2

    My dog is 80 lbs. Burly and strong. He beats the crap out of coyotes, he has driven off whole packs.
    They are not the monsters people think, they're just little wild dogs. But I have respect for them, they are very smart, and very good at what they do.

  • @radagastbrown9001
    @radagastbrown9001 3 года назад +5

    In suburban Cleveland they always travel in pairs.
    There are hundreds of coyotes in urban Chicago.

    • @ontherocks23
      @ontherocks23 3 года назад

      A few years ago, there were some coyote sightings in downtown Manhattan (I guess they were usually seen on nighttime security cameras)..

    • @coopthefootlicker3265
      @coopthefootlicker3265 3 года назад

      Well yeah you have a major rat problem it's a year long buffet for predators

  • @mcmptn
    @mcmptn 3 года назад +4

    Good to know I'm not the only one who pronounces "coyote" as two syllables instead of three. I was beginning to wonder if you really could say it that way or if my entire family was mistaken.

    • @WanderingLoner1
      @WanderingLoner1 2 года назад +1

      Pronounce it however you like man...

    • @jonathanstein1783
      @jonathanstein1783 Год назад +1

      Depends on where you live. Out here in central Washington, most of us say cai-oh-tee.

  • @barbbirdyard
    @barbbirdyard 4 года назад +1

    Great lecture.

  • @michaelholt8590
    @michaelholt8590 2 года назад +2

    I live in Northeast Tennessee and have coyotes around my land. Usually they leave people alone and stay away but at night they are everywhere. Sometimes in large packs they can become bold and aggressive but not often.

  • @carolyn9andthecats653
    @carolyn9andthecats653 5 лет назад +3

    Hey! Mary Ann is a gorgeous forest ranger!

  • @brandoncruise6398
    @brandoncruise6398 5 лет назад +5

    To be fair, many wolves don't all have the characteristics of the typical grey wolf. For the red wolf this is very true and can be easily confused for a large coyote from many lengths of distances. Even the shape of the head can be very similar. With that being said adult wolves and coyotes usually are easy to tell apart just by size.

    • @Joe-bh4vz
      @Joe-bh4vz 2 года назад

      Red Wolves are all but extinct.

  • @paulhailey2537
    @paulhailey2537 2 года назад +2

    In Phoenix Arizona I regularly see Coyotes using Traffic Lights to cross the Street

  • @dstone8354
    @dstone8354 Год назад

    Great video, thank you

  • @robertsophiea05
    @robertsophiea05 5 лет назад +3

    I had a pack (i only saw 3 but heard more) Follow me back to my truck in bow hunting season this year. It was very strange, i think they were responding to my rattling antlers. When they realized i was a person they didn't run off. Yelling at them did not work. It was a 1/2 mile walk back to my truck and they had a circle around me the whole way. They were acting nothing like what you would expect. I am 6' tall 230 pounds and with all my warm cloths on i must look 300 pounds to them. Northern lower Michigan.

    • @oma2635
      @oma2635 4 года назад

      F good bye Faraacin good morning 🌞 S5 koko 55 farati wayoo fafa

  • @josemaravilla1871
    @josemaravilla1871 3 года назад +5

    Coyotes and Wolves, they all are beautiful animals, most of the time when I arrive home from work I see coyotes near by my house, greetings to you guys all from The HI-desert area in Indio,California, animal lover forever❤️❤️❤️‼️

  • @MartyMoose1611
    @MartyMoose1611 Год назад +1

    I have no problem with wolves, bears or coyotes: they don’t like my Sasquatches. Great video.

  • @peacewillow
    @peacewillow Год назад

    very informative, thank you. 🤗