Coyote

Photography by Gerald and Buff Corsi

© California Academy of Sciences

This is a coyote skull object rotation done by the students in Kathy Link's technology class at Fairfield High School.

Scientific name: canis latrans

Size : 40-50 inches

Coyotes are like dogs except that they are hard to keep as pets. Also they only look a little like dogs.

Description: Coyotes have a long, pointy nose, and big ears that stand up. Their fur is yellow-gray, but when I look at pictures it looks like white and black mixed with gray. The tail has a black tip on it. The coyotes' fur is unkempt and looks like someone ruffled up their fur.

They mostly hunt their food at nighttime. This means they are nocturnal! . Coyotes usually hunt in two or threes. Coyotes are good hunters They are good hunters because of their sharp hearing. They have ears like dogs except that coyotes have a little better hearing.

Food: They eat rodents, rabbits, berries and carrion. Carrion is dead animals that coyote finds (like road kill!).