

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!
20 Sep 2017 4 Comments
in coyote behavior, diet, foraging, poisons
Sep 20, 2017 @ 00:16:09
I had a coyote mix who loved to eat a certain berry from a specific bush we’d pass often on our walks. As soon as the berries appeared, she’d start “testing” them with her little front teeth. She didn’t eat them until they easily pulled off the bush. Sometimes that took six weeks or more, but she never ate them until they were very ripe. Then she LOVED them!
Sep 20, 2017 @ 03:51:43
Hi Bobbie — Very interesting! Do you know what plant it was? Janet
Sep 20, 2017 @ 09:35:14
Hi, Janet, it’s Charles. What a great story. Wheew.
It must be that a coyote goes by taste, I think so anyway. And the fruit becomes edible when it is about to drop its seeds. So I think that, if the fruit were tasty before the seeds were mature, the plant’s seeds wouldn’t get to mature because coyotes and others would eat them. So we can say that a coyote is smart about what it eats. And I would like to think that a plant is a sort of “discriminating” producer.
Sep 20, 2017 @ 12:46:27
Smart plants! :))