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Grizzly bears, black bears, wolves, coyotes, cougars/ mountain lions,bobcats, wolverines, lynx, foxes, fishers and martens are the suite of carnivores that originally inhabited North America after the Pleistocene extinctions. This site invites research, commentary, point/counterpoint on that suite of native animals (predator and prey) that inhabited The Americas circa 1500-at the initial point of European exploration and subsequent colonization. Landscape ecology, journal accounts of explorers and frontiersmen, genetic evaluations of museum animals, peer reviewed 20th and 21st century research on various aspects of our "Wild America" as well as subjective commentary from expert and layman alike. All of the above being revealed and discussed with the underlying goal of one day seeing our Continent rewilded.....Where big enough swaths of open space exist with connective corridors to other large forest, meadow, mountain, valley, prairie, desert and chaparral wildlands.....Thereby enabling all of our historic fauna, including man, to live in a sustainable and healthy environment. - Blogger Rick

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Friday, July 29, 2011

The COYOTE YIPPS blogsite had these great pics of our TRICKSTER "DIVING FOR DOLLARS(DINNER).......I think the coyotes would record perfect "10"s in the Olympics!





Ups and Downs 


Hunting has its ups and downs. This coyote
slowly and carefully approached its target,
gingerly extending an arm in the gopher's
direction. Ahhhh, the timing looked right.
 So up she jumped in a beautifully executed
 n-curved dive, which landed exactly on target:
 nose into the ground and feet flying high! But
I can't tell if the coyote hurt its nose or if the
gopher bit her -- notice her expression after
the dive in the center photo. She then attempted
 to reach for the gopher, but then suddenly
trotted off a short distance where she stood
 just looking at the gopher hole. She did not
leave with a gopher, and she did not approach
this gopher hole again. Hmmm.

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