Valley Forge, Pennsylvania

I was hoping he'd step out from the brush pile he was rooting around in ... right there!

Unlike red foxes, who run from people not long after emerging from the maternal den, these guys appear to be palpably more calculating. In the absence of wolves, I suppose, coyotes are an apex predator. I had the distinct impression of dealing with a canid intelligence situated at one end of a spectrum whose opposite pole is occupied by the Labrador retriever.

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Catalina State Park, Arizona

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Theodore Roosevelt National Park

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Badlands National Park, South Dakota

We had this lovely encounter with a young male coyote hunting by the roadside at dusk.

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Valley Forge, Pennsylvania

I'm sure he already knew who I was, but he let me see him for the first time today. I watched him watch his surroundings for a while, and he missed nothing. He could hear bicycles before they had crested the hill a quarter mile away. I would see them 5 seconds later.

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