Coyote America
account of how coyotes--long the target of an extermination policy--spread to every corner of the United States Finalist for the PEN/E.O. Wilson Literary Science Writing Award "A masterly synthesis of scientific research and personal observation." -Wall Street Journal Legends don't come close to capturing the incredible story of the coyote In the face of centuries of campaigns of annihilation employing gases, helicopters, and engineered epidemics, coyotes didn't just survive, they thrived, expanding across the continent from Alaska to New York. In the war between humans and coyotes, coyotes have won, hands-down. Coyote America is the illuminating five-million-year biography of this extraordinary animal, from its origins to its apotheosis. It is one of the great epics of our time.
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- A few years ago I read Coyote America, by Dan Flores. A large portion of this book is dedicated to Wildlife Services efforts to cull the Coyote. They've been fantastically unsuccessful in this effort, most likely due to behavioral quirk of the species. Coyotes can identify specific individuals by voice, and if one of those voices disappears from the nightly call it causes the females to enter estrus and breed. So if you kill a Coyote multiple more Coyotes literally spring up in their place.
- I highly recommend the book Coyote America: A Natural and Supernatural History by Dan Flores. I had no idea of what coyotes went through in the recent history in America.
- My wife read a book called Coyote America [1] a while back that was really interesting from what she told me of it. One thing that I thought was really interesting is that coyotes responded to population control / elimination efforts by just having a ton more babies, which sort of made the effort completely backfire.
I guess not all that related, but reading your post triggered the memory, so I thought I'd make a comment.
[1] https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/26195972-coyote-america?...
- There is a pretty good book about the history of the Coyote - Coyote America by Dan Flores.
- For those interested on the more-fascinating-than-you-might-assume history of coyotes I suggest you read Coyote America by Dan Flores. There is also a fantastic podcast episode that hits the high points of the book: http://www.themeateater.com/podcasts/episode-033/
- Check out Coyote America by Dan Flores. It's an amazing account of the coyote's spread across the continent in the face of extreme pressure to extirpate it in the west.
