What is another word for coyotes?

Pronunciation: [ka͡ɪˈə͡ʊtiz] (IPA)

Coyotes are wild canids in North America, known for their adaptive nature and cunning. They are called by different names in various regions, such as brush wolves, prairie wolves, or American jackals. Other local names for coyotes are yodelers, barking dogs, or tricksters, referring to their eerie howling and sneaky behavior. In some Native American cultures, coyotes are seen as shape-shifters or clowns, symbolizing mischief and wit. In Spanish, coyotes are called coyotes, which derived from the Aztec word coyotl. As a beloved character in many folktales and mythologies, coyotes inspire creativity and imagination in human cultures.

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Usage examples for Coyotes

There were nights of utter desolation, when Manley was in town upon some errand which prevented his speedy return-nights when the coyotes howled much louder than usual, and she could not sleep for the mysterious snapping and creaking about the shack, but lay shivering with fear until dawn; but not for worlds would she have admitted to Manley her dread of staying alone.
"Lonesome Land"
B. M. Bower
Two savage dogs, of the species called coyotes, had followed the prisoners into captivity.
"A Lady's Captivity among Chinese Pirates in the Chinese Seas"
Fanny Loviot
It will only be the coyotes.
"A Prairie Courtship"
Harold Bindloss

Famous quotes with Coyotes

  • On my recent trip to the Mexico border, Border Patrol agents in California told me they have arrested the same coyotes 20 times, but they are not prosecuted.
    Ric Keller
  • I could not have learned to listen to coyotes without having first learned to listen to my unwillingness to sell my hours, then to listen to the signals of my body, then to listen to the disease that has made my insides my home, and thus become a part of me. And I could not have learned to listen to coyotes without having talked to other people courageous enough to validate my perception of an animate world. I talked to the writer Christoper Manes, who said, 'For most cultures through history--including our own in preliterate times--the entire world used to speak. Anthropologists call this animism, the most pervasive worldview in human history. Animistic cultures listen to the natural world. For them, birds have something to say. So do worms, wolves, and waterfalls.' Later the philosopher Thomas Berry told me, 'The universe is composed of subjects to be communed with, not objects to be exploited. Everything has its own voice. Thunder and lightning and stars and planets, flowers, birds, animals, trees--all these have voices, and they constitute a community of existence that is profoundly related.'
    Derrick Jensen
  • If the book is good, is about something that you know, and is truly written, and reading it over you see that this is so, you can let the boys yip and the noise will have that pleasant sound coyotes make on a very cold night when they are out in the snow and you are in your own cabin that you have built or paid for with your work.
    Ernest Hemingway
  • ... We talked while the full moon mounted in the sky, words filling up the narrow space between us, as much a buffer as a link. Hours passed and then suddenly at my foot there was a wriggle of the soil. A kangaroo mouse emerged, a creature that I have never otherwise seen except fleeing at a distance. I put my hand on the man’s shoulder to call his attention to this surprise, and we fell silent and watched the strangely fearless mouse do its work for a long time, then resumed the conversation more slowly and more softly as the creature continued to refine its tunnel entrance and the mound of gravelly earth at its mouth, indifferent to our presence. Bats swooped down and snatched invisible meals from the air, and coyotes began to howl, more of them, closer and more persistently than I’ve ever heard before or since, a whole orchestra of drawn-out cries into the dawn.
    Rebecca Solnit

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