Understanding Coyotes

The Comprehensive Guide for Hunters, Photographers and Wildlife Observers

By: Michael Huff

Narrated by: Cliff Weldon

Length: 3 hrs and 6 mins

Publisher's summary

The most comprehensive book about coyotes ever. This best book award winner is easy to understand and a very enjoyable listen.

The author invested years studying current coyote research and has thousands of hours observing coyotes in the wild. He is a rare expert on this very elusive and complex animal.

Listening to this book will give you a deep understanding and appreciation of the most intelligent and adaptable animal on earth. Whether you are a coyote hunter, deer hunter, photographer, wildlife observer, or predator enthusiast, you will find this book fascinating and beneficial. It will give you a true appreciation of the coyote and teach you how to better understand and get closer to coyotes in the wild.

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Definitive guide to the coyote

I actually have this book in print and was happy that it became available in audio. I wanted to download because I can listen in the truck and each time I do I’ll
Pick up another useful piece of information. Mike has really done a terrific job above anyone lease I’ve ever read. The book covers the coyote in all aspects and is a must if you truly want to understand this incredible animal. It’s a must buy.

More mispronounced words in a chapter than I have heard in five years

The book is good and has some great info but whoever is reading it is a moron. It’s almost like a Saturday night live skit! This idiot will have stings of back to back mispronounced words that would make you laugh if you had not payed money for the experience. It takes you out of the book and wrecks the experience.
Hearing that manny mispronounced words might actually make you dumber.

Terrible narration!

Very excited about this book but I cannot understand what this man is saying. Enjoyed Michael Huffs other book. This is painfully.

Lots of good information about coyotes

I wanted to lean more about coyotes in order to hunt and trap them more efficiently. I also just wanted to understand the animal better. I got all that from this book. I realized how many things I was doing wrong which contributed to me not seeing coyotes. This book has lots of good information. The author lives in my area so that was a plus. The narration was not good. This is the first audio book I've ever had to complain about the narrator. Usually the narrators Audible uses are superb. I mean excellently matched. Unfortunately, not here. Many, many, many, mispronounced words. It felt like a person from the inner city that never stepped foot in the woods ever in his life was narrating this book. You can tell the narrator doesn't even know what the words mean. I tried to listen to this book a second time to help remember some important information, but I just couldn't do it. The narrator can't even pronounce common words correctly. I hate to say it Audible, but I know that most people won't like the narration. The author did a great job and I'm sure the printed book comes off as an excellent book on coyotes worthy of prominent display on the bookshelf.

Coyote America better

More about the tracking of coyotes, than the history and nature of coyotes. I thought Coyote America was a much better book.

terrible reader and editing

very informative book. I wish I had just spent the time to read it myself instead of choosing audio

Needs different speaker/reader!

I think the information in this book is probably very good. However, the person reading it is not right for the job. He's difficult to understand many times, mispronces words, pauses at the wrong times mid-sentence, and I don't feel like he has a grasp on what he is reading. I couldn't listen anymore, so I had to stop. I feel bad for the author. Clearly, he had no say in who read his book.

The narrator’s pronunciation issues force me to question the author’s credibility

The reading level of this book exceeds the narrator’s vocabulary.

I would breakdown the narrator’s issues pronouncing words into three categories.

The first and most common is best described as swallowing multisyllabic words. “Probably is prolly” and so on. While this by itself could be considered regionally colloquial, it detracts from the scientific nature of the content. It’s annoying, but it’s the least of the issues.

The second pronunciation issue is improperly pronouncing words like photography. I’ll assume the narrator actually knows how to say this and is simply suffering from some misspeaking issues that can happen to anyone reading out loud. But as an audiobook experience, its underwhelming.

The third and frankly most unforgivable is a clear unfamiliarity with the word being read. And we’re not talking about some esoteric terminology that would stump the layperson. We’re talking about words like “decimated” (pronounced by the narrator as “deXimated”.). It goes on like this at least every paragraph, if not more.

It really is awful. The content itself seems very well researched and I think well written. But it’s really really hard to get past the narrator. After all, when someone is telling me about the differences between coyotes and “woofs”, I begin to doubt the facts themselves. Truly a shame. The book seems to deserve better than this amateur is capable of.

Great book

Very informative for such a short book. The reader mispronounced many words. Overall good listen.

Great Book, Great Author. Horrid Narrator

Michael Huff wrote a great book about coyotes. It includes a lot of data, studies, and credible personal observations about coyotes and their behavior. I listened to the book to improve my understanding and make me a better coyote hunter.
However, I would highly recommend actually reading the book.
The narrator absolutely killed the enjoyment of listening to the book. The publisher should be embarrassed and Mr. Huff should be angry with the accented, mispronunciations, and gross incompetence of the narrator. Narration should be done by someone who speaks clear and precise English. For instance, wolves are not "wuffs". Through is not "frew". Ask is not "ax". World is not "wurl". The horrid narration by Cliff Weldon made it extremely difficult to focus on and absorb the valuable information that Mr. Huff has spent a lifetime compiling. Mr. Weldon needs to find a different career and apologize to the author.