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Last week I decided to volunteer for Project Coyote, a local nonprofit. The people at Project Coyote educate the public about coyotes, wolves, and other native carnivores, striving to create fundamental and systemic changes in the ways wild carnivores are viewed and treated in North America. In my new role as a volunteer wildlife photographer, I worked on my first assignment today: a coyote had been spotted in Bernal Heights, San Francisco. So I drove to Brewster street first thing in the…

I hear coyotes howling. Does that mean they have just killed something? / Why do coyotes howl and yip? -

This Coyote just came across the field after coming out of the bushes by the cafe. I saw some people around the bushes where the coyote was hiding. I stood away as not too have him feel trapped and waited for him to emerge once the other people left. He finally came out and started for the squirrels by the duck pond but there were too many people around. I took pictures of him coming out of the bushes and then followed him from a distance to the squirrels by the arborertem. Before I got…

Native Americans are the first people known to have named what we now call Coyotes. The Cherokees of this Coyote's region - the Smoky Mountains - called them ᏩᏯᎭ (pronounced wa-ya-ha). The Spanish later called them various names - such as "Spanish Foxes" or "Jackals" Coyotes, before settling on Coyote (which is seemingly derived from the Nahuatl name Coyōtl). Coyotes have long been considered particularly intelligent, an attribute I think this portrait reveals well.

Coyote