[ExI] Coyotes (Re: I love the world. =)

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On 11/9/10 6:45 PM, Darren wrote:
> Coyotes are a huge problem. They grow
> sleeker and braver and more numerous with each passing year, glutted on
> domestic cats and injured deer and human garbage carelessly stored. So
> people might find that predation was once again an issue,

Well, that's what we get for killing off all the wolves: a vacant 
ecological niche.

I think part of the success of coyotes is because, unlike wolves, they 
have adapted to inhabited areas -- where discharging of firearms is 
prohibited.  A coyote is much safer in an urban area than it is out 
West, where it will likely be shot or poisoned (frequently at taxpayer 
expense).

Factoid: the extinct "dire wolf" (Canis dirus) was actually more closely 
related to the modern coyote than the modern wolf.

Mike Dougherty wrote:
> I imagined "sleeker and braver" coyotes as futuristic gold-foil-clad
> computronium-enhanced beasts with a hivemind and an insatiable thirst
> for small children.

In other words, furry versions of Dick Cheney, Hank Paulson, and Rahm 
Emmanuel.