Coyote America

A Natural and Supernatural History

De: Dan Flores

Narrado por: Elijah Alexander

With its uncanny night howls, unrivaled ingenuity, and amazing resilience, the coyote is the stuff of legends. In Indian folktales it often appears as a deceptive trickster or a sly genius. But legends don't come close to capturing the incredible survival story of the coyote.

As soon as Americans - especially white Americans - began ranching and herding in the West, they began working to destroy the coyote. Despite campaigns of annihilation employing poisons, gases, helicopters, and engineered epidemics, coyotes didn't just survive, they thrived, expanding across the continent from Anchorage, Alaska, to New York's Central Park. In the war between humans and coyotes, coyotes have won hands down.

Coyote America is both an environmental and a deep natural history of the coyote. It traces both the five-million-year-long biological story of an animal that has become the "wolf" in our backyards and its cultural evolution from a preeminent spot in Native American religions to the hapless foil of the Road Runner. A deeply American tale, the story of the coyote in the American West and beyond is a sort of Manifest Destiny in reverse, with a pioneering hero whose career holds up an uncanny mirror to the successes and failures of American expansionism.

An illuminating biography of this extraordinary animal, Coyote America isn't just the story of an animal's survival - it is one of the great epics of our time.

©2016 Dan Flores (P)2016 Blackstone Audio, Inc.

very informative.

This was an awesome book that gives the full history of the coyote. A really good book.

not what expected but enjoy able

was not quite what i expected but i enjoyed it. For me the second half was much better

Very Informational

Very interesting but does not have many hooks to keep you listening. The book sounds very much like a 9hr lecture but the material is very interesting to learn about.

Could not stop listening

Packed with information and showing the survival of one of our most intelligent species while illuminating some of America's most sordid history and brutality towards our wildlife (which, sadly, continues to this day, just not as publicly), this has been one of the most informative, at times hilarious, at times heart-wrenching listens in my library. This book should be listened to or read by every American who gives even just a little bit about the health of our country. You do not have to be a coyote lover or hater to appreciate and be fascinated by their story. Dan Flores remains objective, which, as a wildlife rehabilitator, I know was not an easy thing to do, and Elijah Alexander is a perfect choice to deliver lively and powerfully. I cannot recommend this book hghly enough and would give it 10 stars if I could.

Informative and Enlightening!

This was very informative. I actually learned much that I had not been aware of. If the science is correct that their numbers would level off if we stopped killing them, then why don't we stop killing them? It makes you wonder who is the smarter, the coyote or the human? I vote for the coyote.