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- dominant guy in back approaches sibling
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- submissive sibling, head down & ears back, leaves
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- dominant guy pursues submissive guy
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- noses touch: dominant guy to right w/tail out & standing tall; submissive guy leans back with ears back
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- dominant guy overpowering submissive sibling, Mom watches in back
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- dominant guy moves between mom to the right & submissive guy to the left
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- submissive guy to the left kisses dominant guy in the middle – a supplication
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- this I don’t understand: Mom allows dominant guy to smell her inner leg ??
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- submissive guy in the middle, ears down, solicits acceptance from Mom
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- same as the last slide
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- maybe submissive fellow didn’t get what he wanted — ears are dejectedly down
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- A tenuous respite from the interactions
I found this family of three coyotes together — a rare sighting lately, but I’ve seen it several times in the last few days. There is a mother and her two 21-month-old male offspring who are working out their relationships.
