Feral dogs and coydogs are also more likely to kill in a manner similar to coyotes, possibly as a result of experience in killing for food. |
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Today Wyoming's Bighorn Basin, home to pronghorns and prairie dogs, coyotes and rattlesnakes, is nearly a desert. |
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Eagles, rattlesnakes, deer, pronghorn antelope, foxes, coyotes, and mountain lions roam the area. |
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Other predators are red foxes, coyotes, wolves, bear, mountain lions, lynx, bobcats, eagles, and great horned owls. |
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Mating between eastern Canadian wolves, red wolves, and coyotes is possible, he said, because they share a common ancestor. |
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The North was to send 16 animals, including Asiatic black bears, lynx, coyotes, African ponies and Siberian weasels, zoo officials said. |
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Portable receivers and hand-held 3 element Yagi antennas were used to radiotrack coyotes. |
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And outside the window are the distant cries of coyotes, yelping and yapping out on the shadows of the countryside. |
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Sure, coyotes howled during the night, their yips and yowls bouncing off the mountains and across the valley. |
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Cale let out a yowl of pain that the coyotes in Arizona could hear and envy. |
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For instance, by choosing to hunt at a different place or time, coyotes avoid wolves, cheetahs avoid lions, and leopards avoid tigers. |
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The Spanish Inquisition rides again, coyotes call in the darkness, and, just for a little while, all is right with the world. |
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On a winter's night in the deserts of northern Mexico one might expect to hear the chilling cries of coyotes or solitary wolf baying at the moon. |
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Unlike the wolves the coyotes preferred to scavenge the dead carcasses left behind by others. |
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While desert predators, particularly ravens and coyotes, can't do much damage to adults, they can easily penetrate the shells of young tortoises. |
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It's about selective hunting seasons, pest control, cutting the grass the right height, bird dogs, falconry, outsmarting coyotes, and tons more. |
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But more important, the keen sense of smell of foxes, shrews, and coyotes means any meat left unguarded is fair game. |
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In summer you can relax on a deck while watching for moose, deer, coyotes, or foxes to meander by. |
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And neither the feces of bobcats nor the urine of foxes, coyotes, and bobcats discouraged voles from attacking seedlings. |
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North American river otters are sometimes taken by bobcats, coyotes, birds of prey, alligators, and other large predators. |
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All kinds of critters like to dine on poultry, including raccoons, skunks, opossums, weasels, foxes, coyotes, dogs and feral cats. |
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With his hunting experience, he introduced trapping lures for mink, muskrats, fox, beaver, bobcats, coyotes and wolves. |
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Major predators of the otter include sharks, killer whales, coyotes, brown bears and even eagles. |
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They say coyotes have in some places become habituated to humans and human environments. |
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Sometimes falling prey, on land, to wolves and coyotes, the otter's principal enemies are humans. |
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Farmers who pastured llamas with sheep discovered that fewer sheep were lost to coyotes. |
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Suburban patchworks of cover, such as small wooded areas and brush, combine with open areas to provide coyotes with good hunting grounds. |
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The chapter about coyotes and canid coexistence in Yellowstone contains the best discussion of coyote social organization I have seen. |
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In Central and Eastern Oregon, coyotes take 90 percent of the antelope fawns. |
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Canyons and creeks ran to the river down gullies 200 feet deep and were full of quail, and cottontails and coyotes and jack rabbits. |
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Their predators include great horned owls, bobcats, cougars, coyotes, and foxes, so wariness is in their blood. |
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Grizzly bears and bison were exterminated, and coyotes and prairie dogs were shot on sight and poisoned. |
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Predators, such as coyotes, swift foxes, and skunks, are a major problem for ground nesting birds. |
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The virus is carried by a number of wild animals, including coyotes, foxes, and some wolves. |
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Also, coyotes were often observed hunting rodents in the cranberry bogs at the rendezvous site. |
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The coyotes and the bewildered souls kneeling in the headlights know that the border war cannot be fought like this forever. |
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After the law was passed, and border control was stepped up, the coyotes began to charge more money. |
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Once in Sasabe, the migrants will break up into smaller groups and head out with their coyotes along the many smuggler trails. |
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Over time I was also able to use non-American friends as coyotes to smuggle refills. |
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In addition to prosecuting so-called coyotes, he also plans to charge the illegal aliens they smuggle with being co-conspirators. |
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His remarks were typical of the government to attribute the death toll on the border to the coyotes. |
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As the government's operations grew more sophisticated, so did those of the smugglers, or coyotes. |
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They are called coyotes, the men and women who offer to sneak illegal aliens across the border. |
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A Denver television station recorded the coyotes transporting van loads of illegal aliens in broad daylight. |
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When raccoons, coatis, foxes, coyotes, skunks, or bears bit the models, they left tooth marks in the plasticine. |
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Their chief predator is the mink, but while on land they also fall prey to foxes, coyotes and lynx as well as some of the larger avian predators. |
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Quite oblivious to their presence was a pair of coyotes cuddled close together on the sand next to the cliff. |
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On their own, coyotes in Yellowstone hunt voles and deer mice year-round along with ground squirrels in summer. |
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Something in my memories hints that there were rumors that the Hellhound was mixing his purebreds with wolves or coyotes. |
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We now have a Great Pyrenees, who will greet intruders the way her mother, a working ranch dog, greets coyotes. |
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Proverbially wily, coyotes are also a little demonic, and their dogginess only adds to the sense of lurking menace. |
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There are 36 species of Canidae, including dogs, wolves, coyotes, jackals and foxes. |
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Voles are an important source of food for many predators, including snakes, hawks, owls, coyotes, weasels, foxes, mink and badgers. |
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Desert woodrats are vulnerable to predation by coyotes, raccoons, owls, gopher and rattlesnakes, and hawks. |
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The surrounding area is a haven for shorebirds, raptors, herons, deer, coyotes, and other wildlife. |
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They may be preyed upon by larger animals, such as large owls, coyotes, or large snakes, such as eastern massasauga rattlesnakes. |
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Dogs and coyotes have been injured and even killed by llamas. |
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The black bears that once roamed Point Pelee National Park are now gone, but coyotes, red foxes, raccoons, opossums, weasels, and muskrat are still around. |
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The drought killed off owls, snakes, coyotes and foxes, natural predators of the native deer mouse, which then enjoyed a 10-fold population increase. |
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In some places we want cows but not bison, or mule deer but not coyotes, or cars but not elk. |
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Neighbors may include hawks, coyotes, or the occasional rattler. |
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And lots of animals, from coyotes to common pigeons, mate for life. |
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This 137,400-acre expanse supports prairie dogs, coyotes, foxes, black bears, mountain lions, bobcats, elk, mule deer, and over 200 kinds of birds. |
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Bears, coyotes, and pine martens, for example, frequently ingest berries when available and then move the seeds considerable distances by virtue of their large territories. |
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Participants allow the recolonization of the gray wolf on their private lands and will not use lethal controls on coyotes, wolves and other predators. |
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They are hunted by coyotes, badgers, foxes, owls, and wolverines. |
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And typically when hunting small-game like woodchucks, prairie dogs or coyotes, you are in a fixed position with an adequate rest so that shot placement is very controlled. |
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Black bears, grizzly bears, mountain lions, bobcats, and wolves have been effectively removed from most U.S. farming areas, leaving coyotes as the top livestock predators. |
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What about the businesses, the companies, the legitimate American companies that are working with these handlers, these coyotes, these fixers and giving people jobs? |
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Instead of sweating underneath monstrous loads, moving as slowly and ponderously as beasts of burden, we cruised the trail like coyotes, heads up, alert, eyes on the horizon. |
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Residents have complained that the coyotes are getting too close for comfort, possibly attracted by a few neighbors setting out bologna to feed the animals. |
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Will they push coyotes back and ease pressure on pronghorns? |
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Wordlessly, he rides through the wilderness, until he hears the yaps of coyotes in the distance, which to anyone who has watched a lot of Westerns means one thing, Indians. |
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The rifle served to defend cattle from coyotes and feral coydogs. |
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Because of the scarcity of water and succulent vegetation in the desert, rural gardeners often find everything from skunks to javelina to coyotes nibbling at their crops. |
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I've seen bear, mountain lions, bobcat, wolves, coyotes, coydogs. |
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A mixed pack of coyotes and wild dogs had found the open gate. |
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Can you trace those kills back to coyotes, or are these canids simply scavenging road kills from a nearby highway? |
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We can hear the low, moanful bawling of Longhorn steers settling down for the night and the barking of coyotes in the hills a round us. |
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Cross of the ROM's mammal section, coyotes or brush wolves as they were then called were at that time restricted to northwestern Ontario. |
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The principal cause of this separation is believed to be active avoidance of coyotes by the foxes. |
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In North America, foxes and coyotes are probably the most common predators, with bobcats and lynx also preying on them in more remote locations. |
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Unlike the red and eastern wolf, the gray wolf does not readily interbreed with coyotes. |
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Wolf pups begin play fighting at the age of 3 weeks, though unlike young foxes and coyotes, their bites are inhibited. |
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This is in contrast to young foxes and coyotes, which may begin fighting even before the onset of play behavior. |
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In North America, incidents of gray wolves killing coyotes are common, particularly in winter, when coyotes feed on wolf kills. |
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There are no records of coyotes killing wolves, though coyotes may chase wolves if they outnumber them. |
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They are used most commonly in the western regions of the United States, where larger predators, such as coyotes and feral dogs, are prevalent. |
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Wildlife is found mostly in the most rugged and inaccessible areas and includes deer, coyotes, eagles and rattlesnakes. |
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Wildlife abounds with elk, mule deer, big horn sheep, antelope, eagles, pheasant, chukars, coyotes, mountain lion, and even a bear now and again. |
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Surveys of coyotes and other canid populations may be warranted in the WMDs of origin to establish the source of infection. |
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Kelly's team recommended culling hybrid species when possible, as has been done for the offspring of red wolves and coyotes in the United States. |
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However, coyotes tend to be less challenging intellectually, as they offer a straight line hunt instead of the convoluted fox line. |
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When one decides to raise sheep, he accepts the fact that coyotes come with the territory. |
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Diablo includes coastal black-tailed deer, gray foxes, bobcats, mountain lions, badgers, and coyotes, as well as the red-legged frog and the rare Alameda whipsnake. |
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Studies in California urban areas showed that coyotes reduced cats in some habitat fragments, which then resulted in an increase in nesting success for songbirds. |
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Laws regulating the hunting of coyotes might alternatively be explained as the outcome of interest group competition between woolgrowers and fur trappers for political favors. |
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Haas found that measurable characteristics of the road influenced frequency and probability of use of underpasses and culverts by bobcats and coyotes. |
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Just bald eagles, golden eagles, pronghorn antelope, mule deer, elk, quail, prairie falcons, coyotes, chukars, gopher snakes, ravens and great horned owls, to name a few. |
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We documented the widespread presence of coyotes, striped skunks, and raccoons, and the localized presence of bobcats, gray foxes, and Virginia opossums. |
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Nowadays, many of these hybrids have backcrossed with coyotes. |
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About 2,000 coyotes are thought to live in and around Chicago. |
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Usual animal sources for fur clothing and fur trimmed accessories include fox, rabbit, mink, beavers, ermine, otters, sable, seals, coyotes, chinchilla, raccoon, and possum. |
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In wild canids like foxes and coyotes, mom and dad bring food in their stomachs in a semi-digested form and regurgitate it for the pups from the fifth week on. |
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The nights were now cold, gemmed with a multitude of bright stars, uncanny with the querulous wail of coyotes and the occasional deep voices of wolves. |
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From the darkness came the howls of routs of wolves and bands of coyotes, the rumbling growls of a sleuth of bears or the bugles of a gang of elk. |
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