More pictures of box trapped coyotes

First capture of Casper (#9804 in publications). One of the first coyotes captured on Cape Cod in 1998. She was 51 pounds and very fat when first captured. She has given birth 4 years in a row during early April making it nearly impossible (according to the literature) to be a coydog - without a doubt she behaves very much like a coyote. We have found her about 1,000 times since she was first collared (she was given a second collar in 1999 and we hope to give her a third in the near future). Note how submissive she is.

Another coyote, captured spring 2002, "Glif"

Picture of Jog, a 40-lb male, captured December 2001. Unfortunately he was hit and killed on the mid-Cape highway in early June 2002 (within his territory).

Picture of Kett, a 44 lb male, captured in 1998. He, along with Casper, was one of the first coyotes collared in this study, and is still alive as of summer 2002. A story of a radio-tracking event is featured on Kett's (#9805) group.

Another picture of Kett

A picture of Kett's son, Sill, who stayed with Kett's group until January 2001 (at 1 yr 9 mo. of age) then dispersed and established a territory adjacent to Kett's group and another radio-collared group. The interesting thing about Sill's group's territorial establishment was the fact that they fit it between two existing territories and it is much smaller (~4 sq. miles) than a normal territory (>10 sq. miles). They successfully produced pups in spring/summer 2002.

Note Sill's submissive posture in the trap, typical of all box trapped coyotes.

 

Snix (#9802), the first adult (female) captured and radio-collared on Sandy Neck Beach, Cape Cod, Massachusetts. She provided many examples of the incredible regular 10-15 mile daily movements that coyotes routinely do. She would nightly leave the 10 km beach and would occassionally be >5 km away from it by the following morning.

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