There is no reason not to believe the story. This story came from my fellow observer who, I can verify, has been an astute and accurate observer and could even identify individual coyotes in the dark (which I still have not mastered).
He became the owner for the next twelve years until last fall.
Then all families disappeared and only one youngster remained there.
I was told that one of the families was so vengeful that it went after and slaughtered the pups of the rival family. Twelve years ago, before this family claimed it as their own, there had been a territorial battle between two families here. I suppose my assumption that the vast territory had become “hers” is incorrect. That fellow observer ceased appearing because the coyotes had.
Coyote howling full#
The family that left had been there twelve full years I’m told by a fellow observer who knew the Dad from the time he was a mere pup. The field has been totally vacant for weeks. Since their departure, I’ve only seen the extra-male a few times: the beautiful pale blue-eyed fellow below. So, I guess the lady of the house’s new beau came in and swept her off her feet and they loped away into the sunset together to hopefully live happily ever after - isn’t that how these stories are supposed to go? I wonder if I’ll see them again. They are now gone and have been for weeks. And then, within only a few days of that out-and-out play, the pair was gone. It wasn’t long before I observed an all-out, no-holds-barred play session: they were in a sand-pit a long distance off and it was dark, but I got this photo above, showing them playing as coyotes do when they like each other: chasing, wrestling, and play-beating up one another in a teasing sort of way. Note that, although she appeared to have “chosen” her fella early on, the “possessive display” continues, and you’ll see this at the end of these two howling videos. to ‘ her chosen fella’ taking charge and leading the chorus when sirens sounded. Right from the start, though, she showed a preference for the dark-eyed fella: he was the obvious dominant of the two, and maybe this had everything to do with her choice.Īfter the first few days during which she showed them “her domain”, they mostly hung-out on their knolls waiting for dusk to come around, and I watched the relationship progress from her being totally “in charge” and leading the howling sessions (in this first video, you can see him ignore the siren until she reacts): I watched these three for the next few weeks as they became more obviously trusting and comfortable with each other. Dusk is when she’d usually head off trekking alone, and soon I watched as three of them went off together, not with complete confidence in each other as one would expect in an established family, but they were figuring each other out, and figuring out their relationships, through darting eye-glances: coyotes communicate visually and everything they did sent a message and was interpreted as a message. She kept a squinted, wary eye on them as they loitered around fairly close to each other until dusk darkened the sky and enveloped the landscape.
I could tell that she was apprehensive about them for the first little while after they appeared. And then one day, there were two newcomers with her - both males! I thought the vast territory had become hers. For several months, I would find her all alone. An entire family left their long-time claimed territory, leaving one daughter behind.
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