details78 They look really well-fed, there are no fast food joints for many miles from here though, so I think they eat dried snacks and occasionally barbeque/restaurant food.
I love em too, even tho I've seen them chasing local small pets for food. But, that's our fault. And I live smack in the middle of the massive LA metro area. They get here and probably live on the San Gabriel and LA river channels. Love those rascals...well, all animals.
@@Kenikex poor animals, nobody feed them. Also our dogs would be like this if nobody took care of them. But coyotes seem to be even more sensitive, intelligent and tender than the common dogs
+mangaas Not in this case, they're racemixing with dogs that have lower ammounts of stress hormones. In south they are on average (91%:4%:5% coyote:wolf:dog). It might be enough for them to become semi-friendly with humans.
wow. what a beautiful landscape, so breath taking and memorizing. I don't why people find the North American desert to be "ugly" "boring" and "uninteresting" quite the opposite. love the coyote by the way.
Every landscape is interesting and has its unique geology, flora, and fauna. I love walking around the deserts of the American Southwest and taking my time to examine everything.
Well, NTC is there. It's hot, windy, and if you crew any artillery around there, you're going to piss off bees in the tens of millions. The only shade you will find, is your own shadow. A case of water will only hydrate you for only a couple days, and the only real change in terrain features, aside from rocks, mountains, dirt, and crap shrubs, are in another biome. Its breathtakingly hot, and mesmerizingly boring.
I met these guys (or maybe their ancestors) a few years before I moved from California. This would have been around 2014. One laid down in the middle of the road, while the other approached my car. I did NOT feed them. I did set them a bowl of water out, which they drank.
I would not feed them. It gives them a false sense of security toward humans, cars, and such, and the idea that they can support offspring in the area. Giving animals water is okay because it is a more immediate need if needed, and I don't think it offers the same reinforcement for risky behaviors toward getting close to humans as food does.
I was last there during a rabbit irruption, and the coyotes were snatching enough roadkill to attract them to the area, and not begging as much. Then I watched a pair that seemed to be making themselves photo subjects for, but not closely approaching an SUV. I stopped to watch from a distance, and when the vehicle left they immediately trotted over to drink the pool of water from the air conditioner condensation.
So from their perspective, they have figured out that cars, with their people in them, can mean food at times (roadkill and the occasional treat) and water, if they allow themselves to be visual bait for the stops. Clever opportunists to attract a car to stop and make water for them. Do you see any of them ran over themselves by cars around the area? If not, then they have found their own niche and how to make it work well for them. Thanks for your comment. It is interesting to know what you saw them doing for water.
This pair seems to hang out in this area, waiting for motorists to come by and give them a handout. There are a few other videos on RU-vid of them doing their thing in exactly the same place. You can tell the location by the hills in the background.
meow23 Don't Ever Feed Any wildlife they will associate people with Food and when they Attack They will be Put Down! let The Wild Animals fend for themselves they been doing a great job of it for tens of Thousands of Years Now! Keep Wild Wild!
I swear I saw the same two coyotes the last time I was there. Only in my case, one sat in the middle of the road, and when I stopped my car, they both approached. I didn't feed them, but I had water and a container, so I gave them water. They drank every drop.
Thanks for sharing and the detailed narration. I consider that some creatures sense the kind of "dead end" quality in spirit as they deal with the ever decreasing opportunities for feeding in the wild as man takes more and more territory for exploitation. I wouldn't hesitate to feed these woeful canines and project that I respected the opportunity to interact with them.
Thanks for the intelligent comment...a lot of people gave me grief here over the Looney Tunes humming & whistling in the beginning, not understanding that I did a voiceover after I edited the footage. I thought it was amusing at the time I made the video. This encounter made the whole road trip worth it. My friend and I felt it was a magical encounter. My only regret was that I didn't have a proper camera with zoom to capture the coyote's docility and smile.
This isn't the lowest spot on land in the world... The Dead Sea is lower. By almost 1,000 feet. Don't state things as facts when you don't know what you're talking about.
@@davlor86 Makes them too comfortable. I was reading comments on another video and this person said people were feeding this neighborhood coyote and he started following people to try and get food. This woman started complaining that this coyote was "harassing" her and her dogs whenever she went on walks and eventually a park ranger showed up. The coyote didn't run when being approached by the park ranger so he was deemed aggressive and shot.
It makes me feel sick that it's legal to kill coyotes year round with no limit. These sick people hunting them have no intention of eating or using the animal in any way. My God what in the hell is wrong with our lawmakers?
+Melvin Wei+ I've learned of 6 species of coyotes and these are what they are: 1. Idaho Coyote 2. Death Valley Coyote (that's the species that you've encountered) 3. Yosemite Coyote 4. Yellowstone Coyote 5. Eastern Coyote 6. Western Coyote The death valley coyote is the species that is native to the dry and hot North American location of Death Valley.
Well its dangerous for humans to feed wild animals. It should be noted that before dogs, Humans were able to tame wolves by eventually taking in the ones that were no longer afraid of humans and breeding them. Those lines of wolves became the modern dog. Coyotes which are also a wild canine have likely learned a similar concept by modern humans and thus have adapted to learn to beg and fetch food from humans. Well kinda bad in-case one or the other gets injured or bitten this shows a form of artificial evolution in motion of a wild animal being domesticated first hand. That and humans did a wonderful job of killing off adult coyotes in the past that could have taught younger pups to avoid human predators. So in essence humans are unintentionally creating domesticated coyotes.
eaglerocks123 The bold one had tamer body language than all the dogs being walked in my neighborhood. No noise made obviously to conserve moisture in Death Valley by keeping the mouth closed. It's said that perhaps desperate lone wolves approached human campfires in ancient times and domesticated themselves. Also, wolf pups are really cute and it's possible that humans kidnapped them and raised them, but that somehow didn't happen with coyote pups. I have read anecdotes of people raises coyotes from pups and saying they ended up being the most loyal animals ever.
Those coyotes would eat you if they had the chance. They travel in groups while hunting day or night. When it started walking away when you approached it, it was actually leading you away from the safety of your vehicle towards the rest of the pack. Don't be fooled by these "friendly" dogs. They kill and eat prey twice the size of you all the time. They are extremely smart. It only takes 2 coyotes to kill a full grown buck.
Coyotes are, for the most part, scavengers. They have killed deer but mostly eat rodents and other small mammals. When deer populations drop due to coyotes it's not going to be from killing big bucks but from killing fawns. As far as humans we're not on the menu. There have only been 2 recorded incidents where coyotes have killed people while 25,000 people are killed by dogs each year and 150 people are killed by falling coconuts each year (so even coconuts are more dangerous than coyotes). When the coyote started to walk away from the man that was just typical skittish behavior. When coyotes lead animals away to get ambushed they usually show playful or inviting behavior.
