Coyotes

Coyotes COYOTE: SCIENTIFIC PAPER Most of the general population would be able to recall that coyotes are members of the dog family, and that they generally inhabit the northwest United States. Other than that, not much attention is paid to this particular canine. It will try to avoid man, as man will try to avoid it. There is, however, a very complex science behind this wild dog of the northwest. The habitat, physical nature and instinctive behavior of this animal make it easy for an onlooker to become uninterested, but those traits are also what have made it almost a symbol of the Native American and Western cultures. The coyote is an animal that is called by many names. The term “coyote” itself, meaning “little wolf,” comes from the Native Americans, more specifically the Aztecs (Bansfield 286). These are peoples that have lived and co-existed with the coyote for as long as their cultures have been around. Their terminology reflects not a scientific view of the dog, but a natural view of its existence within the ecosystem. Following its’ genealogy, it is in the class Mammalia, order Carnivora, family Canidae, and it is coyotes, coyote, one, wild, pups, dog, bansfield, animals, weeks, several, scientific, its’, hunting, habitat, found, forsyth, commonly, united, toes, states, northwest, native, make, however, group, family, diet, den, canis, canine, been, animal, after, 169, within, view, two, try, travel, three, term, survive, small, six, seen, range, prey, pounds, play, physical