14 Facts About Coyotes

Coyotes living at high elevations tend to have more black and gray shades than their desert-dwelling counterparts, which are more fulvous or whitish-gray.

Coyotes have hybridized with wolves to varying degrees, particularly in eastern North America.

Coyotes have been observed to kill porcupines in pairs, using their paws to flip the rodents on their backs, then attacking the soft underbelly.

Coyotes kill rattlesnakes mostly for food by teasing the snakes until they stretch out and then biting their heads and snapping and shaking the snakes.

Coyotes that are killed are sometimes not eaten, perhaps indicating that these comprise competitive interspecies interactions, however there are multiple confirmed cases of cougars eating coyotes.

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Coyotes rarely kill healthy adult red foxes, and have been observed to feed or den alongside them, though they often kill foxes caught in traps.

Coyotes have been known to occasionally kill bobcats – in most cases, the bobcats were relatively small specimens, such as adult females and juveniles.

Coyotes have been documented to directly kill Canada lynx on occasion, and compete with them for prey, especially snowshoe hares.

Coyotes can be infected by both demodectic and sarcoptic mange, the latter being the most common.

Coyotes is sometimes depicted as a womanizer, responsible for bringing war into the world by seducing Xochiquetzal, the goddess of love.

Coyotes are often attracted to dog food and animals that are small enough to appear as prey.

Coyotes being the light and agile animals they are, they often leave a very light impression on terrain.

Coyotes were occasionally eaten by trappers and mountain men during the western expansion.

Coyotes sometimes featured in the feasts of the Plains Indians, and coyote pups were eaten by the indigenous people of San Gabriel, California.