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Understanding Coyotes: The Comprehensive Guide for Hunters, Photographers and Wildlife Observers
2017 Best Book Award - 1st Place Winner Pennsylvania Outdoor Writers Association The most comprehensive book about coyotes, presented in a format that is easy to read and enjoyable. The author spent years studying the collective body of coyote research and thousands of hours in the field. Now you can become an expert on the most intelligent and adaptable animal in North America by reading this book. Whether you are a coyote hunter, deer hunter, photographer, wildlife observer, or enthusiast, you will find this book fascinating and beneficial. It will give you a true appreciation of the coyote. Order a copy today and expand your appreciation of this amazing animal and learn how you can apply the knowledge in this book to get close to coyotes in the wild!
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Published October 24, 2015
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April 23, 2017
Coyotes are one of my favorite animals, partly due to how the Native American Indians revered them along with Wolves and the more I read about them the more I realized how important they are to our ecosystem.
I live in a rural area in a subdivision, so they are around nightly and guaranteed to see them at least every full moon. One interesting thing is if, I see Bobcats around on my street at night, driving home from work. I'm less likely to see the Coyotes. We do have a neighbor with geese and chickens, so it could be that it's attracted a bear or panther to the neighborhood.
I never have called them or trapped them, but the one thing the author never really mentions is that people can have Coyotes around them and never realize it. Especially health ones, are the most elusive to see.
At my work, I had a lone Coyote brush past me, it ran between me and horse loading ramp and growled at me, as it continued to run away. At the time I was working a 8:30PM to 7:00AM schedule for 4 years, did see a pack of 3 Coyotes that grew to 5, they just about nightly punctually or close 2:30AM in the morning they would cut across the property. They had what I presume was the male leading them, the rest would follow and almost like he would make sure the coast was clear. I only noticed that since one night I was in the maintenance shop hammering on a door latch to straighten it and they just happened to come by. After that I would sit out in the open storage shed built off of the maintenance shed and would observe them.
While my schedules changed now, I have ask several co-workers, they still see them cutting through the property, although they try to avoid them and aren't as fascinated by them to watch them like I did.
I knew of a Thoroughbred Farm that would put out an extra feed tub 0f grain to feed a pregnant Coyote who had a den near one of their pastures, she never bothered the horses, wasn't a nuance for the farm, and got to see her bring the pups to eat with her. Interestingly the same farm had a lone nuance one that they hired a hunter, to trap or shoot it.
Probably the only thing wrong with this book, was the author saying that Coyote's basically are the sole reason the Deer population numbers are down in the Southeast. Was surprised that he made no mention of Ticks, Sasquatch, climate change, poachers, the lose of doe's or fawns while giving birth, and the encroachment of humans moving into their territory.
Not a researcher, but one can easily google enough information to realize the effect of ticks on deer in some areas, Moose in New England, Alaska and just seems like Huff is pushing that Staples easy button saying the growth of the Coyote population in the Southeast causing the deer population decrease.
I work in the Thoroughbred horse industry, can't say what part due to my employer. I'm going to tie in the Sheep, Goat, and Cattle farms with my experience going to these horse farms and seeing how they are run.
You might have a farm that invests into it's horses, has a barns with stalls for everyone of their horses, has sufficient employees to care for them, gives them the best possible care, handle them daily, stall them when they are injured or sick, due to foal and have night watch person at night. Then you'll see a farm that's just a husband and wife, no employees, horses are kept out in pastures, have pen should they need to care for them, or they have a limited number of stalls for them if injured or sick, due to foal, they are only handle when they get fed and are at the mercy of them seeing any injuries on them.
So I'm going to assume that you'll see the same thing with the goat, sheep and cattle farms but I have no sympathy for them, if they have predator's around their livestock, do nothing to protect them and seems educating them would work better, than just giving them a check yearly for their losses.
Removing Coyotes will not solve the problem, unless your going to educate farmers also and make them change how they operate.
Let me add, that I do know farms from all three of these livestock animals that are in Coyote areas, that take care excellent care of them and have zero predator problem's.
I liked Understanding Coyotes, definitely if you have them around you do read it and it'll give you a better understanding of them and why they are vital part of our ecosystem.
I live in a rural area in a subdivision, so they are around nightly and guaranteed to see them at least every full moon. One interesting thing is if, I see Bobcats around on my street at night, driving home from work. I'm less likely to see the Coyotes. We do have a neighbor with geese and chickens, so it could be that it's attracted a bear or panther to the neighborhood.
I never have called them or trapped them, but the one thing the author never really mentions is that people can have Coyotes around them and never realize it. Especially health ones, are the most elusive to see.
At my work, I had a lone Coyote brush past me, it ran between me and horse loading ramp and growled at me, as it continued to run away. At the time I was working a 8:30PM to 7:00AM schedule for 4 years, did see a pack of 3 Coyotes that grew to 5, they just about nightly punctually or close 2:30AM in the morning they would cut across the property. They had what I presume was the male leading them, the rest would follow and almost like he would make sure the coast was clear. I only noticed that since one night I was in the maintenance shop hammering on a door latch to straighten it and they just happened to come by. After that I would sit out in the open storage shed built off of the maintenance shed and would observe them.
While my schedules changed now, I have ask several co-workers, they still see them cutting through the property, although they try to avoid them and aren't as fascinated by them to watch them like I did.
I knew of a Thoroughbred Farm that would put out an extra feed tub 0f grain to feed a pregnant Coyote who had a den near one of their pastures, she never bothered the horses, wasn't a nuance for the farm, and got to see her bring the pups to eat with her. Interestingly the same farm had a lone nuance one that they hired a hunter, to trap or shoot it.
Probably the only thing wrong with this book, was the author saying that Coyote's basically are the sole reason the Deer population numbers are down in the Southeast. Was surprised that he made no mention of Ticks, Sasquatch, climate change, poachers, the lose of doe's or fawns while giving birth, and the encroachment of humans moving into their territory.
Not a researcher, but one can easily google enough information to realize the effect of ticks on deer in some areas, Moose in New England, Alaska and just seems like Huff is pushing that Staples easy button saying the growth of the Coyote population in the Southeast causing the deer population decrease.
I work in the Thoroughbred horse industry, can't say what part due to my employer. I'm going to tie in the Sheep, Goat, and Cattle farms with my experience going to these horse farms and seeing how they are run.
You might have a farm that invests into it's horses, has a barns with stalls for everyone of their horses, has sufficient employees to care for them, gives them the best possible care, handle them daily, stall them when they are injured or sick, due to foal and have night watch person at night. Then you'll see a farm that's just a husband and wife, no employees, horses are kept out in pastures, have pen should they need to care for them, or they have a limited number of stalls for them if injured or sick, due to foal, they are only handle when they get fed and are at the mercy of them seeing any injuries on them.
So I'm going to assume that you'll see the same thing with the goat, sheep and cattle farms but I have no sympathy for them, if they have predator's around their livestock, do nothing to protect them and seems educating them would work better, than just giving them a check yearly for their losses.
Removing Coyotes will not solve the problem, unless your going to educate farmers also and make them change how they operate.
Let me add, that I do know farms from all three of these livestock animals that are in Coyote areas, that take care excellent care of them and have zero predator problem's.
I liked Understanding Coyotes, definitely if you have them around you do read it and it'll give you a better understanding of them and why they are vital part of our ecosystem.
December 2, 2017
Informational.
A lot of information is stating the obvious to the average coyote hunter. I did like the biology lesson on coyotes and the comparisons of their senses to humans. Knowledge is power.
A lot of information is stating the obvious to the average coyote hunter. I did like the biology lesson on coyotes and the comparisons of their senses to humans. Knowledge is power.
January 25, 2018
On the thin side. And there's a reason "for Hunters" is listed first in the subtitle ...
January 18, 2017
Pretty decent
I thought it was pretty informative in discussing the home ranges of coyotes and social pecking order and breeding habits of a family group
I thought it was pretty informative in discussing the home ranges of coyotes and social pecking order and breeding habits of a family group
July 6, 2019
This book every ineffectively turns a Wikipedia article into a boring novella.
July 28, 2019
Having several coyotes visit us almost daily I found this book full of useful information. I am not a hunter.
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