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Coyote America

A Natural and Supernatural History

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Coyote America

By: Dan Flores
Narrated by: Elijah Alexander
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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.
Americas Animals Biological Sciences Biology Evolution Evolution & Genetics Nature & Ecology Outdoors & Nature Science Genetics Old West Wild West

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The narrator is absolutely magnificent, the book as well , so glad that I found it

Amazing work

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Beautifully and powerfully written. Sensitively and compellingly narrated. Moving, raw, poetic, but never sentimental. Highly recommended.

Utterly compelling

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Absolutely loved this book. A fascinating insight into coyotes and our interactions with them throughout history. In addition, it was wonderfully narrated, I highly recommend it to anyone with an interest in natural history, and human-carnivore/opportunist interactions.

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I enjoyed this book, very informative and nice story quality- reader is also very good, but I’m not a fan of when he tried to do foreign accents, it comes off more offensive then authentic - not sure why readers do this. But overall very good and informative about the history of the coyote and it’s impact on modern environmental policy etc

Good book

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