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

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!!!

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.

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

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

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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".

They’re smarter than some people.

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.

So a coyote diet consists of anything in abundance.

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.

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

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

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.

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...

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.

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.

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

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.!

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.

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 .

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.

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

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

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.

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!

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 :)

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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..

Great video. We live in rural sw ND , does anyone know if they use the same den year after year? Do they just use dens for pups, or shelter too ?

Well done, Mary Ann! Thank you!

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.

Thank you, Mary Ann Bonnell! Excellent presentation.

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

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

Thanks that was very informative Mary Ann Bonnell,

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

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

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

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

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

I hear this things for one week once a year. Are they migratory? I ask since my family member who lives on the other side of the state has them live in their region year round.

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

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!

This was very helpful and informative. Thank you.

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.

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

I was attacked by a coyote when I was a kid. I have had hundreds of encounters with them both as a child and an adult but that one event was the only time a coyote behaved even remotely agressive. They normally keep their distance. However I had no idea that coyotes could act passive around humans. Seeing that coyote walk down the sidewalk with those people bothered me a little but it was neat to see 😕😅

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.

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

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!

What about the "CoyWolf" / Brush wolves ,,, We are seeing more & more of the hybrid all over so the distinction between them is becoming harder & harder - Especially when they really do look to be 80# !!! I had a coywolf that would sit at the edge of my neighbors property during hunting season & would wait out the hunting pressure before returning. It never Came close to my dogs & never posed a problem whatsoever.... It was a perfect example of mistaken identity - It looked like a healthy small/young wolf.

Very informative and educational. Thank you very much

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

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.

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

I wonder what this educator would have to say about the recent rash of attacks on humans by coyotes in Vancouver's Stanley Park.

I had just moved into my mobile home park in Scottsdale, AZ which is on the edge of the city and the Indian reservation when coyotes killed a fox at 2am in the morning right behind or on top of my mobile home. I had just finished work and was home relaxing. They all made a hell of a racket especially the poor little fox. I've seen the mini pack of 2 or 3 coyotes two or three times. The last time I saw them they had gotten a Lot bigger. It made me wonder if they were not actually coywolves.

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.

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

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.

Your coyotes are so much smaller than ours! I live in Massachusetts, on Cape Cod. I have spoken with naturalists who actually measure and weigh wild coyotes and they say they average 42 lbs as adults, give or take a pound or two. I put out trail cams every night and watch them pass through or hunt or sometimes just hang around. They are active at all hours.

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.

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.

Am I missing something here or does the sound cut off a few seconds into this video. All I witnessed was a video with a coyote called in the very beginning then a bunch of pictures and videos moving with no sound and only one descriptive text for one scene

In the 1970s NYC was having a rat problem. It wouldn't have surprised me if a number of coyotes moved into the city around this time and got mistaken for stray dogs. Rats are a problem with humans but to a coyote they're a buffet.

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

Do the westerners actually think they are the only ones with coyote problems. I live in the suburbs of Atlanta, GA and we have coyotes. The reality is they have begun to eliminate the feral cat population. I was walking my springer spaniel and my little peekapoo when I saw a small coyote running toward us. I instinctively grabbed my little dog and the little coyote left my springer alone. It tried several times to grab my little dog while I'm screaming and kicking at the coyote. It followed us home, so I went through the gate to the rear garden area. When I safely had my dogs inside, I went looking for the coyote (no more than 30 seconds). It was nowhere to be found in mine or my neighbors yards. I believe what the western native Americans call them "ghost", because they can disappear in an instant.

Very interesting and high-quality video thanks

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

I'm from Denver, and used to be a JeffCo Deputy, but have lived in Northern Virginia for 28 years. The Coyotes in the east are not like those in the that I used to see in the West. They are larger (Coy-wolf) and exhibit strong pack behaviors. I hunt them (in rural areas) with my friend (a local hunting legend) as they have been depleting the local deer populations. The animals that have been taken by hunting and trapping have averaged between 40 and 65 lbs.

Coyotes can and will kill domestic Dogs. They also will mate with them and produce Coyote-Dog Hybrids. Where I live, they den right across the road from the house I live in. On my own land, the few trees that are around, if the limbs droop all the way to the ground and provide cover they will den under them. I have lived on this land I live on since I was a boy in 1958. I have observed them doing all kinds of notable and interesting things, but I am not an expert on them. I have had packs of the cut a path about 40 feet from the house, just after dark they will march right by, I can flip on a flashlight and their retinas will reflect, looks kind of like a small train going by at low speed. It seems they don't mind being close to humans and they observe humans, but they don't like the opposite, humans observing them. Their "scat" contains most anything that has a calorie in it. Grass, seeds, insects, cattle feed, anything a calorie, they are also scavengers when it comes to road kill, and other detritus. That is if the Fire Ants don't get the carcass first. They will make dens in tall Johnson Grass by turning in a circle over and over, similar to a dog before he lies down, but they do it in a more agressive manner and it will make a surprisingly good "den". I have mowed those things up with a tractor and rotary mower. Many years ago before the demise of agriculture in this area, we did not have as many coyotes and there was so much less "cover". But since Speculators have bought all the land around and started NEGLECTING IT and of course "claiming" an Ag Exemption on Property taxes, they have flourished. We have a LOT of them now. People SWEAR they have seen WOLVES here, but there are NONE, that, I know for sure. Unless, a PRIVATELY OWNED Wolf escapes from the owner, there are NONE. It is legal to OWN WOLVES and people do have them, they have to have a permit in City Limits to own them as a rule, but I do NOT know if there is a STATE permit for them. I knew a man once that did own some wolves, and he said he had a permit, but I don't remember the nuances with that. Coyotes, since they EAT ANYTHING are very good at surviving. Hard to wipe out an animal that will eat anything and sleep anywhere almost, kind of like Feral Hogs, however Feral Hogs multiply so fast, and do a lot more damage. I do NOT like them Denning close to the house, otherwise I leave them alone. I can keep them away from my house pretty much on my land, but the land across the road is much harder, as I have to get premission to set foot on it and since no one farms it anymore it is all grown up in Brush and TRASH TREES. A black and tan German Shepherd can be mistaken for a coyote at a distance by people that are not used to seeing coyotes on a regular basis. One thing to me that is unmistakable is the "crook" in the side of a wild Canine's jaw. Looks like a crooked smile, a domesticated Dog, does not have that, or I have never seen one that does. A domestic dog, his "smile" or mouth profile on the side is Straight. They can be interesting to watch, if I am mowing or plowing, i continue to work for hours in a defined area, they will walk up right on the side of the Tractor and just stroll by as long as I do NOT sot at them or get off the tractor. they SEEM to "judge" the man on a tractor as not a threat after they have observed him working in a defined space for a long time, usually a few hours. I have photographed them this way a number of times. BB

The coyote that was eating my chickens weighed at least 50 pounds. He was the same size as my Border Collie /Lab mix. In fact all of the Coyotes that live near me are this size. They feed upon the millions of cottontail rabbits in the area. Their pelts are full and thick, they are fat. I know because I skinned one. They are Very smart, very hard to even get a shot off. A simple click or rattle from your rifle is enough to alarm them...even at 200+ yards(ask me how I know). That said, they visit my backyard multiple times a week - very stealthily. They even visit having two full grown labs and the border collie/lab. My Labs bark, but I've caught my Border Collie nose to nose with one. For some reason he is more social for whatever the reason. And no, there has never been a violent confrontation. He will be 13 in March 2020. So he has been at this game for a long time. Even though my chickens are attacked(and eaten) I hope they stay around. Every year you can hear the pups that live in the heavy thickets, near the creek at the back of my pasture. Hearing the gaggle of little ones is a lot of fun. I often howl back and forth with the adults. Sometimes I get the entire area in an uproar. LoL 😁 I downloaded an app that has many of their howls -- I do my best to emulate. Edit: I live in Central Texas

I saw a out 5 coyotes around Joliet and Romeoville, Illinois along the DuPage river area. There were 3 running together on Larkin Avenue just north of I-55. Then I saw a dead one by a little stream in Shorewood, Illinois. That was sad.

She is the coyote lawyer

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❤️❤️❤️‼️

Great presentation. Thanks.

I grew up in Arvada and when I was young at 62nd and Wadsworth there was corn fields across the street from where we lived. This was before it was built up north of 62nd. Arvada High School wasn't built yet the entire area was built up at the same time as the School was and in the late 60's and early 70's it all began to get built up further north and further west, like Ward Rd. was the end of the line and corn fields where beyond that my son was conceived out past Ward Rd. in the corn fields, just a little love for Jefferson County I miss it, I left in 79 went to the Navy. I never heard or saw Cyote's at all where I grew up.

I know this is old but I just stumbled onto it. I am in the Midwest and have hunted coyotes all my life since I was 12 , I am now 53. Coyotes are easy to identify but around here they get much bigger I guess. I have taken females as big as 40 lbs. and males as big as 70 lbs. It doesn't happen all the time but they are out there. We also sometimes get the weird ones that are crossed with stray dogs. Those are hard to identify from a distance.

Agreed with absolutely everything she said ofcourse except for the "shouldnt leave your kid in the backyard by themselves, thats a parenting issue" - when I was that age I was outside all the time with a bunch of kids all over un supervised and everything was always fine

I have a question, I carry also pepper spray so if I will walk in the street and see a coyote should I pepper spray him?

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