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[–] jeffw 67 points 1 year ago (3 children)

In 2022 a study by Stan Gehrt, wildlife ecologist at Ohio State University, was released that revealed the coyotes had been living on a diet of moose rather than their typical diet of smaller animals. It was concluded that the unavailability of smaller prey led the coyotes to become accustomed to large targets leading them to see the young woman as a potential food source.

Fascinating read, albeit sad

[–] Jackcooper 16 points 1 year ago (6 children)

How do coyotes take down a moose? Even if there's 5 of them??

[–] [email protected] 20 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Probably similar to wolves, run it down till its too tired to fight, bite the legs till it can't support its own weight and them go for the throat.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago

It's how they do with deer, I'm sure it would work on a moose. Bite and run bite and run.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago

Crack cocaine, my friend.

[–] boatsnhos931 6 points 1 year ago

How do I eat a whole rotisserie chicken by myself? When you get hangry, you find a way. Thank you Jeebus!!

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

As another poster already commented these coyotes were a much bigger breed than your typical coyote

[–] LemmyKnowsBest 1 points 1 year ago (2 children)

okay but surely the coyotes weren't bigger than a moose. A moose can be bigger than a truck.

[–] Cort 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Yeah they're big, but they don't turn very quickly. If the coyotes can draw blood, they'd be able to make the moose bleed out eventually.

Also, there was an article like a decade ago about America's coyotes and one phrase really stuck with me: canis soup. The researchers used the term to describe all the interbreeding that was occurring with coyotes, wolves, and domestic/tame dogs. I only point this out to say that the 'coyotes' in this story may have had some wolf or pitbull in them.

[–] LemmyKnowsBest 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Has anyone ever caught that on video?? A pitbull dog fucking a coyote? 😳

[–] tym 1 points 1 year ago

No, but I got this sweet video of a coyote fucking a pit bull! /s

[–] shalafi 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Watched a video of a single wolverine taking down a grown reindeer. It was brutal, took some time, but the little guy won.

(Don't watch that if you're not accustomed to nature "red in tooth and claw".)

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago

So again habitat loss caused by humans, ffs.

[–] Omgarm 1 points 1 year ago

Crazy to think that the coyotes got swole, bascially

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago

I'm checking out her album now. I really like the first track, Don't Know How I Got Here.

[–] shalafi 1 points 1 year ago

Dogs are far and away the #1 reason I carry in the woods. We got black bears and panthers, not too worried. Not even sure there's ever been a recorded attack in my county. Oddly, I've never seen a coyote, but hear them in the distance every time I camp. Never imagined they would jump a human.

Dogs OTHO? There was a pit bouncing around my front porch the other night. I have a giant dog door for the pig, so I jumped back inside and grabbed the single-shot shotty over the door. Turns out he was just a dumb puppy running around with a young couple and their kids. I cannot describe my relief.