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Posted by Leonard (Member # 2) on February 09, 2003, 10:23 AM:
THAT COYOTES NEVER DIE A NATURAL DEATH!
They prefer to be run over on a highway, or shot.
In all my time, I have never stumbled across a dead coyote. Everything else imaginable, but never found a coyote that died of old age.
Who has?
Good hunting. LB
Posted by Terry Hunter (Member # 58) on February 09, 2003, 10:31 AM:
You are correct.Except you forgot trapping.
Posted by Lonny (Member # 19) on February 09, 2003, 12:45 PM:
I've never came across a coyote that died of natural causes either. I doubt they ever do really. Too many ways for them to die and it only takes one mistake.
If I remember right,(and I could be wrong cause its been awhile) didn't Steve Allen when he was heading the bio forum at PM say that in all the years of tracking radio collared coyotes they never had one die of old age? I thought I remember him saying they almost all caught a bullet or had an accident eventually. Some did get up in years before they were killed though.
Posted by UTcaller (Member # 8) on February 09, 2003, 01:03 PM:
I have to agree I have never seen a coyote that died of old age.I guess I never thought about it before.GOOD HUNTING Chad.....
Posted by Krustyklimber (Member # 72) on February 09, 2003, 01:26 PM:
I think it would be rare to actually find a wild animal that died of natural causes, they would den up and pass away, with their carcass eventually becoming part of the bones and hair the litter a den.
Much like the Grizzly Bear, or Mountain Gorilla, both of which were "mythological beings" for many many years before proof of there existence. And both of which are never found in the wild after passing from natural causes, as most would.
I think if you were on a quest for transpired coyotes it would not be done by walking, but by digging and tunneling into old dens.
Just my two cents...
Jeff 
Posted by Leonard (Member # 2) on February 09, 2003, 06:13 PM:
Krusty, that's the point. I have stumbled across many different dead animals and birds, cattle sheep, horses... you name it.
I did see a coyote that made a serious miscalculation, once. It was a very cold morning, and we saw the steam rising from a hot spring from a mile away. When we got up to it and got out, went over a checked it out. This spring was a perfect funnel shape, clear water bubbling out and a very small creek feeding a small marsh with a bunch of ducks.
Right in the middle was a complete coyote skeleton, pure white bones in excellent condition. My partner reached in to get it, and promptly scalded his whole hand before he realized that the merry bubbles coming up from the hole at the bottom were because it was boiling hot! He really blistered bad.
What a way to go, huh? Poor lobsters!
Good hunting. LB
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