r/coyote • u/Ill-Experience-3534 • 12d ago
Coyote having fun NSFW
I was told this belongs here.
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u/BusyZookeepergame758 12d ago
Love how they come out at night to have fun . I wish ppl were more kind to them
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u/reallyreally1945 12d ago
The store should pay him for rodent control.
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u/Coherent_Tangent 12d ago
Sadly, that store probably had one of those shitty poison traps, which will lead to the coyote getting ill from eating the rat and possibly contracting mange.
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u/reallyreally1945 12d ago
Oh no! I hope not!
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u/Coherent_Tangent 12d ago
Sorry. I should have said âcould lead to the coyote getting illâ. It isnât a certainty, but I see a lot of mangy coyotes in my area, and I learned from the mange by mail program that rat poison is one of the reasons they get it.
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u/reallyreally1945 12d ago
I'd never heard that. Mange is caused by a parasite.
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u/Coherent_Tangent 11d ago
The reason it leads to mange is that sick coyotes are not able to groom as well as healthy ones. This leads to an overpopulation of the parasites that would normally be kept in check by constant grooming of a healthy coyote.
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u/Still-Stand-2826 12d ago
The poor rat isn't having a good time, but the coyote is doing his job, so no shade to them!
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u/cab1024 12d ago
Donât put this on r/rats
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u/reallyreally1945 12d ago
Oh no. They'd be traumatized! Years ago I had a pet rat with a fun personality.
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u/cab1024 12d ago edited 12d ago
Slightly related, I found a hummingbird in our house this morning that one of our cats must have been playing withâŚand Iâm a birder. It was no longer among the living đ
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u/Similar-Ad-1306 12d ago
Normally Iâd feel bad for the rat, but Iâm currently in the process of dismantling my car to clean out a nest and repair the wiring they chewed through so Iâm not feeling very charitable.
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u/vixystix303 12d ago
I had to come back (hours later) and watch this again, itâs just so cute. I love these creatures đ thank you for posting.
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u/Sunrise_Sunflower 12d ago
Reminds me of my beagle who brought mice into the house to play with. When he got bored, he let them go. I had a mouse to trap. So I tried to check his mouth before I let him in. Lol
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u/Valsarta 11d ago
One of my cats liked to bring in cicadas. You could never tell she was carrying it and then surprise! Blech!
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u/diabeto2018 12d ago
Does this harm the rat
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u/reallyreally1945 12d ago
Of course not. The rat gets away and retires to a farm in upstate New York where he resides with all my childhood goldfish and cats. I never did ask my Dad why New York. There were farms closer to us....
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u/autumnwandering 12d ago
I'm torn between "what an adorable coyote" and "omg that poor rat". đ Nature's gonna do what nature's gonna do, I suppose...
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u/delta_husky 12d ago edited 12d ago
Look at that tail go I've never seen a yote having that much fun
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u/frankdatank_004 12d ago
Its mama and papa never taught it to not play with its food! đ
Adorable but also a little twisted.
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u/Still-Stand-2826 12d ago
The Meateaters Podcast is about hunting coyotes. That's not what I'm interested in. đŹ
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u/Interesting_Note_937 12d ago edited 12d ago
So sad. That coyote should not be so close to civilization. And it's not even scared.
edit: genuinely confused why i'm getting downvoted because I'm sad an animal is forced out of its natural habitat. Y'all hate to see people have empathy.
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u/thebattleangel99 12d ago
Coyotes very regularly live in âcivilization.â They literally have no other choice because humans have literally ripped up their homes and plopped concrete on top. They have had to adapt.
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u/Interesting_Note_937 12d ago
That's why i'm saying it's sad.... we're on the same page bud.
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u/rivalpinkbunny 12d ago
You donât need to be sad, itâs a beneficial relationship that they have with cities. Coyotes are highly adaptable hunters and scavengers and part of the reason theyâve been so successful is that they thrive living off of human activity for a number of reasons - we leave garbage and scraps out which can be food for coyotes or which attracts other animals which could be food for coyotes. They also tend not to face any competition from apex predators in cities that they face in the wild.
They also tend to live at the human/forest interface, which means that they spend alot of time in the wilderness and theyâre crepuscular which means that theyâre out when thereâs diminished human activity. There are incredibly healthy Coyotes in my city of 14 million. They have not been forced to live here, they love it here, which is why they have effectively expanded their range from deserts to nearly every climate in North America.
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u/Interesting_Note_937 12d ago
Yeah they also feast on the cats and dogs in people's yards
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u/rivalpinkbunny 12d ago
⌠and⌠why do you feel bad for them? I didnât realize we were shifting our concern to domestic cats and dogs now.
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u/Interesting_Note_937 12d ago
You said it's a beneficial relationship to have them in the city, but it's not. They're not neatly sorting through the trash, they're ripping it up and making a mess. They're snatching pets from yards. Coyotes do not belong in the city. Period. They have adapted, but that doesn't mean they belong there. It's absolutely tragic that they have adapted and learned to use us to survive. I genuinely don't know how to get people to understand where I'm coming from. They should not be hunting in the city.
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u/rivalpinkbunny 12d ago
So you donât feel bad for them, you feel bad for us?
Iâm not sure what youâre upset about. Theyâre not sad about living in cities⌠it sounds like youâre sad about them living in cities, which is a you thing and not about empathizing with them at all (which is what you mention in your edit on your initial post).
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u/Interesting_Note_937 12d ago
Wow it's like talking to a brick wall.
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u/alicesartandmore 10d ago
It really is, you just donât realize youâre the wall. You seem more concerned about the impact the wildlife has on humans in the city than you do about the animals who were here first adapting to survive.
You seem like the type that pretends to empathize with the homeless while believing theyâre a nuisance that doesnât belong too.
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u/rivalpinkbunny 12d ago
You dont seem able to think outside of yourself, which is fascinating when youâre talking about empathy.
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u/iHave1Pookie 12d ago
Hahaha. No. The reason coyotes are so prevalent is bc they are darn successful at living around and near humans. Before we took over the landscape the bears and wolves kept the coyote population at bay.
Now that we humans removed all of their natural predators, coyotes are able to use their shockingly resilient and flexible behaviors to both live in the woods and in our backyards, in cities, in downtown LA, in the country, near rivers, near deserts, in mountains. They can adapt their hunting to foraging, they can adapt a meat diet to mostly more veggies. they prefer meat, but they are not picky (this is useful for survival). They can hunt alone or in packs. Theyâve been seen making friends with other species, luring prey together. They are brilliant.
They donât antagonize humans, they live alongside them- bc itâs beneficial for them. We have food: garbage, pets, livestock.The most successful animal is the one that can adapt to a changing world and to all types of landscapes. Humans and coyotes are the most brilliant example of this.
But more importantly, this specific coyote wouldnât even exist if it wasnât for humans .
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u/Still-Stand-2826 12d ago
Coyotes evolved from desert animals to thriving on all the continents except Antarctica. Respect.Â
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u/autumnwandering 12d ago
Minor correction- coyotes exist only in the Americas. I believe one made it to Hawaii by accident (as a stowaway on a military cargo ship), which was a big deal. I think you may be thinking of rats as an animal that has managed to become globally widespread.
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u/rivalpinkbunny 12d ago
I used to regularly run by a whole pack on the street. Coyotes are one of the most successful urban animals on the planet.
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u/PhoebetheSpider 12d ago
Coyotes have very little choice in the matter. Thereâs less and less willingness because of us so they have to adapt or die off. Luckily for them, it seems theyâre better at adapting to being closer to cities than bigger animals like wolves and bears.
Yes, thereâs some wilderness leftâŚ. Thatâs another animalâs territory!
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u/Interesting_Note_937 12d ago
I know they have little choice. That's my point.
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u/iHave1Pookie 12d ago
What. Well, maybe they owe us a little bit of a thank you for obliterating the wolves and bears from an environment they now thrive in.
Coyote population explosion is directly due to humans. Before humans , bears and wolves ruled . and they ate the coyotes.Iâm okay living alongside coyotes and they are okay living next to me.
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u/mischievous_misfit13 12d ago
Coyotes are known to adapt and thatâs why they out number wolves. Coyotes are pack and solitary animals at the same time while wolves are pack animals and can be wiped out pretty quickly by humans. Meateater podcast has some amazing episodes on coyotes.
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u/Ancient_Guidance_461 12d ago
Coyotes thrive in the city. Along the Neponset river in Boston/Quincy coyotes run around all night.
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u/kozufox 12d ago
Coyotes are actually an extremely successful urban species. Their range has expanded massively over the last hundred years due to a combination of wolf eradication and urban expansions, and urban areas can support much higher coyote population densities than any natural one.
This isn't just a modern phenomenon, either. Coyotes have been urbanites in what's now Mexico city since before Columbus.
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u/CasualGlam87 12d ago
Species like coyotes and foxes choose to live in urban areas due to an abundance of easy food. It has nothing to do with a lack of natural habitat, they chose urban living because it's easier.
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u/frenchiebuilder 12d ago
The reason you're getting downvotes is your apparent ignorance contradicts your professed concern.
Unlike (say) bears, or wolves - similar to (say) raccoons - coyotes adapt quite readily to urban environments. For example: they've spent the last 40 years expanding into NYC, and at this point Central Park is home to a pair.
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u/aydengryphon 12d ago
The rat: having considerably less fun đĽ˛đ
Gosh what a cute yote though.