Coyote America: A Natural and Supernatural History

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Coyotes were likely semidomesticated by various pre-Columbian cultures. Some 19th-century writers wrote of coyotes being kept in native villages in the Great Plains. The coyote is easily tamed as a pup, but can become destructive as an adult. [209] Both full-blooded and hybrid coyotes can be playful and confiding with their owners, but are suspicious and shy of strangers, [74] though coyotes being tractable enough to be used for practical purposes like retrieving [210] and pointing have been recorded. [211] A tame coyote named "Butch", caught in the summer of 1945, had a short-lived career in cinema, appearing in Smoky (1946) and Ramrod (1947) before being shot while raiding a henhouse. [209] In popular culture [ edit ] In coastal California, coyotes now consume a higher percentage of marine-based food than their ancestors, which is thought to be due to the extirpation of the grizzly bear from this region. [132] In Death Valley, coyotes may consume great quantities of hawkmoth caterpillars or beetles in the spring flowering months. [133] Enemies and competitors [ edit ] A comparative illustration of a coyote and a gray wolf Mountain coyotes ( C. l. lestes) cornering a juvenile cougar a b Powers, Stephen (1877). Tribes of California. Washington: Contributions to North American Ethnology.

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Coyotes are primarily carnivores, but will feed on fruits, berries, and seeds, if the opportunity arises. They are generalists, which means that they can and will consume many different types of prey. Some commonly observed kills include rabbits, bison, rodents, deer, sheep, frogs, snakes, insects, lizards, fish, and crustaceans. In 2016, a whole-genome DNA study proposed, based on the assumptions made, that all of the North American wolves and coyotes diverged from a common ancestor about 51,000years ago. [54] [55] However, the proposed timing of the wolf / coyote divergence conflicts with the discovery of a coyote-like specimen in strata dated to 1Mya. [56] The study also indicated that all North American wolves have a significant amount of coyote ancestry and all coyotes some degree of wolf ancestry, and that the red wolf and eastern wolf are highly admixed with different proportions of gray wolf and coyote ancestry. [54] [55] Although Coyotes are completely different species from gray wolves, they do exhibit behaviors that are closely related to gray wolves. Especially when giving birth and raising pups. Like wolves, coyotes give birth in dens. 5. Coyotes breeding with other animals a b c Vonholdt, B. M.; Cahill, J. A.; Fan, Z.; Gronau, I.; Robinson, J.; Pollinger, J. P.; Shapiro, B.; Wall, J.; Wayne, R. K. (2016). "Whole-genome sequence analysis shows that two endemic species of North American wolf are admixtures of the coyote and gray wolf". Science Advances. 2 (7): e1501714. Bibcode: 2016SciA....2E1714V. doi: 10.1126/sciadv.1501714. PMC 5919777. PMID 29713682.Coyotes are famous creatures within the tales and traditions of Native Americans. They’re viewed as wily and clever beasts among the ancient Native Americans and are revered to this day.

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Southern Sonora, extreme southwestern Chihuahua, western Durango, western Zacatecas, and Sinaloa [63] Trending: 'coyote' ". Trend Watch. Merriam-Webster, Inc. October 22, 2020 . Retrieved November 11, 2020.A Maidu myth says that as the Creator was fashioning various creatures out of clay, Coyote tried to do the same. However, as he kept laughing, his efforts did not turn out well. The Creator supposed that if he stopped laughing, he might do better. Coyote denied laughing - thus telling the world's first lie. [16] a b LeClire, N.; Cardinal, G. (1998). Alberta Elders' Cree Dictionary. University of Alberta. p.279. ISBN 978-0-88864-284-4. OCLC 659111819.

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Coyote plays a prominent role in many stories in the Diné ( Navajo) mythos; see Coyote (Navajo mythology). In areas where the ranges of coyotes and gray wolves overlap, interference competition and predation by wolves has been hypothesized to limit local coyote densities. Coyote ranges expanded during the 19th and 20th centuries following the extirpation of wolves, while coyotes were driven to extinction on Isle Royale after wolves colonized the island in the 1940s. One study conducted in Yellowstone National Park, where both species coexist, concluded that the coyote population in the Lamar River Valley declined by 39% following the reintroduction of wolves in the 1990s, while coyote populations in wolf inhabited areas of the Grand Teton National Park are 33% lower than in areas where they are absent. [134] [135] Wolves have been observed to not tolerate coyotes in their vicinity, though coyotes have been known to trail wolves to feed on their kills. [103] He also appears in a legend of the White Mountain Apache, "Coyote fights a lump of pitch" (a variant of the Tar-Baby theme), and in similar legends of the Zapotec and Popoluca of Mexico. [ citation needed]Especially in Canada, if you just call this animal “Ky-aot” then you’re more of a western Canadian. Whereas if you rhyme coyote with a “Wile.E” then you’re most likely to be from Ontario. 10. The meaning of the coyote Before humans decimated the populations of wolves and cougars, coyotes were restricted to much smaller habitat ranges. The larger predators out competed and even killed their smaller counterparts, keeping these canines in areas less inhabited by wolves and other large predators. The role Coyote takes in traditional stories shares some traits with the Raven figure in other cultures.

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C. latrans and C. aureus are closely related to C. edwardii, a species that appeared earliest spanning the mid- Blancan ( late Pliocene) to the close of the Irvingtonian (late Pleistocene), and coyote remains indistinguishable from C.latrans were contemporaneous with C. edwardii in North America. [45] Johnston describes C. lepophagus as having a more slender skull and skeleton than the modern coyote. [46] Ronald Nowak found that the early populations had small, delicate, narrowly proportioned skulls that resemble small coyotes and appear to be ancestral to C.latrans. [47] Hybridization [ edit ] Melanistic coyotes owe their color to a mutation that first arose in domestic dogs. [73]

Neundorf, A. (1983). A Navajo / English Bilingual Dictionary: Áłchíní Bi Naaltsoostsoh. University of New Mexico Press. p.512. ISBN 978-0-8263-3825-9. OCLC 57357517. While the popular consensus is that olfaction is very important for hunting, [93] two studies that experimentally investigated the role of olfactory, auditory, and visual cues found that visual cues are the most important ones for hunting in red foxes [94] and coyotes. [95] [96] A coyote pouncing on prey. Lévi-Strauss, Claude. Structural Anthropology. Trans. Claire Jacobson. New York: Basic Books, 1963. (p. 224)