[calex59]

I live in Massachusetts, I have seen a coyote in broad daylight in my daughters neighborhood which is surrounded by woods. I have also seen a coyote on a farm not farm from my street. My daughter said that one night she heard coyotes killing a deer—they could hear the death cries of the deer. Could this have been a coyote/wolf mix since a poster says that pure coyotes cannot take down a deer?

Actually pure coyotes, regardless of what some FReepers think, do hunt in packs of two to four animals. I have seen them here in Northern CA. When you call in coyotes with a predator call they usually come in pairs and sometimes up to 4 or more. They are quite capable of killing a deer. The western coyote is smaller than its hybrid eastern cousins but still deadly. The distress call of a deer, which is seldom heard, sounds similar to a goat or sheep.

[JRandomFreeper]

And a bugling elk sounds like a chupacabra.

Once again, at 7000 ft, cutting firewood, we all stopped the chain saws for provacative maintenance, and we heard... that sound.

I heard a horny elk. I nodded my head, said 'chupacabra' and started the chain saw.

We were supposed to be finished by 1400. We finished at 1100.

/johnny

[Gargantua]

Here in western Mass we've seen packs of 20-30+ hunting deer nearly every winter since we've been in this house (tens-of-thousands of pristine acres abutting the completely undeveloped Quabbin Reservoir watershed).

The trills, shrieks and ululations as they close on the usually hamstrung victim sound both hysterical and primal. Goosebump central.

;-\

[Monkey Face]

It is not uncommon for coyotes to be seen in our neighborhood. They like the small dogs and the cats.

:o])