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- dominant guy finds a vole
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- dominant guy toys with the vole
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- less dominant guy watches dominant guy with the vole
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- dominant guy eyes less dominant guy
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- dominant guy w/hackles up approaches less dominant guy
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- dominant guy w/hackles up intimidates less dominant guy
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- dominant guy w/hackles up intimidates less dominant guy
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- dominant guy makes less dominant guy hit the ground
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- dominant guy stands over the less dominant guy who has hit the ground
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- dominant guy stands over the less dominant guy who has hit the ground
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- dominant guy stands over the less dominant guy who has hit the ground
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- there is a distraction — possibly dogs on a trail
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- less dominant guy uses the distraction to slither away
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- but dominant guy comes at him again
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- dominant guy is again overpowering his sibling
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- less dominant guy back up with ears back
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- dominant guy remembers his vole and goes to look for it
The sequence of photos for this posting is long: 35 photos, so I have divided them, along with the posting into two parts, “a” and “b”.
In these photos, various things are occurring. First, the dominant sibling coyote has caught a vole. The less dominant coyote sibling watches from only a few feet away as the dominant one toys with the vole for a moment. But then the dominant guy decides to show his sibling his place by overpowering him — notice that his hackles are up. The dominance seems to be less based on strength than on a powerful personality — a willfulness. I say this, because the smaller coyote is the more dominant one.
Maybe the dominant guy saw that the less dominant coyote might want his vole? See One Coyote Filching The Other’s Lunch! I don’t know if this was the case here, it is just a thought that later occurred to me. The less dominant coyote falls to the ground and remains there until the dominant one’s attention is diverted, at which point the less dominant one slips away — but he is overpowered again, until the dominant guy thinks of the vole he caught a few minutes earlier.
Continued at: Sibling Rivalry #4b: Bullied Three Consecutively Times Before Snapping
