Information and stories about San Francisco coyotes: behavior & personality, coexistence & outreach, by Janet Kessler: Unveiling first-hand just how savvy, social, sentient and singular coyotes really are!
22 Jul 2010 Leave a comment
by yipps:janetkessler in coyote behavior, playing
Spinning is what happens when you try to catch your own tail. You end up going round and around, faster and faster. No matter how fast you spin, your tail remains out of reach. So you change directions, hoping that this might be the right solution, but you get no closer than you did before. Dogs do this. Today I saw a wild coyote do it!! I watched for dizziness when the coyote had finished, but I didn’t see it!
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This website reflects my 13+ years of intense, careful, and dedicated field-work — empirical observations — all photo-documented without interfering or changing coyotes’ behaviors. Be welcome here, enjoy, and learn!
Coyotes reappeared in San Francisco in 2002 after many years of absence, and people are still in the dark about them. This site is to help bring light to their behavior and offer simple guidelines for easy coexistence.
Note that none of the coyotes I document and photograph is “anonymous” to me: I know (or knew) each one of them, and can tell you about their personalities, histories, and their family situations. There have been over 100 of them, distributed among over twenty families, all in San Francisco. Images and true stories have the power to raise awareness and change perspective.
© All information and photos in my postings come from my own original and first-hand documentation work which I am happy to share, with permission and with properly displayed credit: ©janetkessler/coyoteyipps.com.
(A crash course in SF coyotes!)
(Another crash course in coyotes generally!)
