Coyote
by John Telfer
Title
Coyote
Artist
John Telfer
Medium
Photograph - Photograph
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While going through the Queens Zoo, located in Queens, New York on the old Worlds Fair Grounds from the 1967-68 Fair. I saw this beautiful coyotoe who had been running back and forth but then heard some birds in the back sancturary and stopped dead to check it out. The beauty of this zoo is that the animals are promarily from North America, Canada and Scotland and are animals found in the cold weather or mountains. The coyote maintained this aggressive stance for several moments waiting to see if anything was going to show up for him to chase. The Queens Zoo does an excellent job at presenting the animals in their natural habitat you rarely see caged animals. The coyote (US /kaɪˈoʊtiː/ or /ˈkaɪ.oʊt/, UK /kɔɪˈjoʊteɪ/ or /kɔɪˈjoʊt/;[2] Canis latrans), also known as the American jackal, brush wolf or the prairie wolf, is a species of canine found throughout North and Central America, ranging from Panama in the south, north through Mexico, the United States and Canada. It occurs as far north as Alaska and all but the northernmost portions of Canada.[3]
Currently, 19 subspecies are recognized, with 16 in Canada, Mexico and the United States, and three in Central America.[4] Unlike the related gray wolf, which is Eurasian in origin, evolutionary theory suggests the coyote evolved in North America during the Pleistocene epoch 1.81 million years ago (mya)[5] alongside the dire wolf.[6] Although not closely related, the coyote evolved separately to fill roughly the same ecological niche in the Americas that is filled in Eurasia and Africa by the similarly sized jackals. Unlike the wolf, the coyote's range has expanded in the wake of human civilization, and coyotes readily reproduce in metropolitan areas.
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