It s usually the animal that gets punished. When coyotes and other wild animals get too tame, they tend to live closer to people. People s cats and dogs start disappearing, because they re easy pickin s for a coyote. Understandably, people get upset and want to get rid of them. Coyotes remind me a lot of the jackals that live in Africa.
Jackals look very much like coyotes.
Like coyotes, they eat rabbits and mice, but they are also very happy with a few live chickens from a farmer s pen. Though this often makes them unpopular, I think they are also respected for their cleverness. Listening to coyotes howling among the glowing rocks on a full moon night at Joshua Tree is a magical experience. We enjoyed it so much that the team and I tried to make our own coyote calls when we recorded the audio for this report. In Africa, I've heard the animals there are even more exotic and fascinating to me.