City Coyotes

[RidgeHunter]

Yuppies post missing posters for their rat dogs all the time out here. I really want to make poster of a coyote with a talk bubble that just says "LOL my bad" and post it below these signs.

I like how the news does stories to make it seem like the "coyotes are moving in on developed areas". It's the other way around, Jack.

 

[OKCShooter]

I regularly see coyotes running across the golf course in my neighborhood...they are getting pretty bold.

 

[Dale00]

Coyotes have killed toddlers in southern California. You can't eliminate them but shooting them keeps people safer by making them afraid of man.

 

[Hobbes]

3 years ago I moved out into the country, east of lake tbird, and haven't seen or heard from a single coyote in all that time.
I've seen deer, turkey, foxes, owls, racoons and every other varmint in OK just about but no coyotes.

I drive to work on the outskirts of Norman, but inside the city limits, and I see them all the time.

 

[HMFIC]

You can't eliminate them but shooting them keeps people safer by making them afraid of man.

This is how we should deal with space aliens too...

 

[jstaylor62]

Great...a study that the pansies in Edmond will cite when they lockdown their schools every time they see a Coyote on the playground...

 

[specialist3]

You can't eliminate them but shooting them keeps people safer by making them afraid of man.

How is the animal you shot going to make that animal afraid of man?

Coyotes already have a natural fear of man, shooting them only makes them dead and disrupts pack hierarchy causing unregulated breeding and/or causing larger litters due to the decreased competition for food and habitat. Also causes the population to disperse to other areas since, again, you disrupted the hierarchy.
Also largely reducing their predators and adding enticing environmental advantages, (corn plots, bird feeders, ponds, pet food, not containing your livestock) you're likely to help spread the population. Coyotes aren't natural to Florida, or any state remotely close, yet I see them all the time.

Basically, we're the problem, but we like to point our fingers.

 

[HMFIC]

It's not my job to judge the yotes, I just arrange the meeting...

 

[Dale00]

How is the animal you shot going to make that animal afraid of man?

If the coyote you shot does not die, it learns to be wary of whatever happened immediately before it was shot. Simple behavioral conditioning. Likewise for other coyotes in the pack that are close to the one that is shot.

Coyotes and mountain lions used to have a fear of man and dogs because they were hunted. When you do not hunt them they lose their fear of people. I've seen videos of coyotes in southern California neighborhoods in broad daylight ignoring the humans around them. Mountain lions now stalk dogs instead of running from them.

A limited amount of hunting of predators is a good thing because it instills a fear of man in them. Behavior is plastic. Coyotes do not have an innate fear of man.

Trying to eliminate predators is a bad thing - predation is what keeps prey species population size at healthy levels.

 

[ignerntbend]

How is the animal you shot going to make that animal afraid of man?

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He got taken out of the gene pool. Natural Selection plain and simple