Outdoors column: Coyotes a Growing Nuisance

This week's Star-News Outdoors column is about coyotes. It'll run in Thursday's print edition and is online now.

Aooohhhhhh....

Excerpt:

The sun falls into the west and as it does the darkness comes and the moon rises into the sky, and there, in the night, the sounds start. The howling. The baying. They sound like something more than dogs, but not quite like wolves.

“Coyotes,” says Ben Meyer. “They get to calling, and it sounds like the old Wild West, or something.”

He shudders. “I've seen them, dead in the road and out sometimes at nighttime. But I hear them more than anything.”

Coyote. The word comes from the Aztec word “coyotl,” which means “barking dog” and is a familiar character in Native American stories as “the trickster.” The species, “canis latrans,” is native only in North America and has the widest range of all wild canines.

And they are coming to dominate North Carolina.

Click here for full story at starnewsonline.com. 

(Update: Online version corrected to include David Cobb's full name and title. Sometimes things wander off when a story is getting edited; they found these and plugged them in just in the nick of time. Little rascals.)