Food Habits: Coyotes sometimes form “hunting partnerships” with badgers. Because coyotes aren’t very effective at digging rodents out of their burrows, they chase the animals while they’re above ground. Badgers do not run quickly, but are well-adapted to digging rodents out of burrows. When both hunt together they effectively leave no escape for prey in the area. The average distance covered in a night’s hunting is about 4 km.
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“These two black coyotes were photographed on a Wildlife Management Area in Florida.Black coyotes are uncommon everywhere and hardly ever seen in Florida—hunters occasionally post photos of dead animals, but photos of live black coyotes are extremely rare.A recent study at Stanford University on the genetics of melanism (black color morph) in wolves, coyotes and dogs, shows that the genetic mutation for melanism first arose in dogs some 50,000 years ago and was subsequently passed to wolves and coyotes.”
Coyotes with odd coat colors could almost have domestic dog somewhere in their family tree, breeding between coyotes and feral dogs isn’t unheard of.
