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[–] jeffw@lemmy.world 67 points 11 months ago (3 children)

In 2022 a study by Stan Gehrt, wildlife ecologist at Ohio State University, was released that revealed the coyotes had been living on a diet of moose rather than their typical diet of smaller animals. It was concluded that the unavailability of smaller prey led the coyotes to become accustomed to large targets leading them to see the young woman as a potential food source.

Fascinating read, albeit sad

[–] Jackcooper@lemmy.world 16 points 10 months ago (6 children)

How do coyotes take down a moose? Even if there's 5 of them??

[–] Davidchan@lemmynsfw.com 20 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Probably similar to wolves, run it down till its too tired to fight, bite the legs till it can't support its own weight and them go for the throat.

[–] roguetrick@kbin.social 10 points 10 months ago

It's how they do with deer, I'm sure it would work on a moose. Bite and run bite and run.

[–] burgersc12@sh.itjust.works 11 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (2 children)

They are Coywolf, hybrids that are like slightly smaller wolves or more aggressive coyotes.

[–] BestBouclettes@jlai.lu 9 points 10 months ago

Not sure why you're being downvoted, the term Coywolf is in the Wikipedia article

[–] AThing4String@sh.itjust.works 6 points 10 months ago (2 children)

Sometimes true, but not in this case.

Various other proposed explanations why the unusual attack occurred included that the coyotes might have been larger and bolder than normal coyotes because they were crosses with wolves or domestic dogs, rabid, starving, or protecting a carcass.None of these suggestions were subsequently borne out

They just got tough and mean on their own.

[–] LemmyKnowsBest@lemmy.world 2 points 10 months ago

I imagine they worked hard together to incapacitate the moose then ate him alive

[–] burgersc12@sh.itjust.works 1 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (3 children)

It says "two Eastern Coyote (coywolves) mauled her" in the OP link. Also according to wikipedia they are almost considered a different species and have been proposed to be called Coywolves precisely becuase of how different they are to the regular coyotes you're thinking of

[–] BoastfulDaedra@lemmynsfw.com 8 points 10 months ago

Crack cocaine, my friend.

[–] JeromeVancouver@lemmy.ca 6 points 10 months ago (1 children)

As another poster already commented these coyotes were a much bigger breed than your typical coyote

[–] LemmyKnowsBest@lemmy.world 1 points 10 months ago (2 children)

okay but surely the coyotes weren't bigger than a moose. A moose can be bigger than a truck.

[–] Cort@lemmy.world 3 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (1 children)

Yeah they're big, but they don't turn very quickly. If the coyotes can draw blood, they'd be able to make the moose bleed out eventually.

Also, there was an article like a decade ago about America's coyotes and one phrase really stuck with me: canis soup. The researchers used the term to describe all the interbreeding that was occurring with coyotes, wolves, and domestic/tame dogs. I only point this out to say that the 'coyotes' in this story may have had some wolf or pitbull in them.

[–] LemmyKnowsBest@lemmy.world 1 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Has anyone ever caught that on video?? A pitbull dog fucking a coyote? 😳

[–] tym@lemmy.world 1 points 10 months ago

No, but I got this sweet video of a coyote fucking a pit bull! /s

[–] shalafi@lemmy.world 1 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

Watched a video of a single wolverine taking down a grown reindeer. It was brutal, took some time, but the little guy won.

(Don't watch that if you're not accustomed to nature "red in tooth and claw".)

[–] boatsnhos931@lemmy.world 6 points 10 months ago

How do I eat a whole rotisserie chicken by myself? When you get hangry, you find a way. Thank you Jeebus!!

[–] Evil_Shrubbery@lemm.ee 10 points 10 months ago

So again habitat loss caused by humans, ffs.

[–] Omgarm@lemmy.world 1 points 10 months ago

Crazy to think that the coyotes got swole, bascially

[–] ryven@lemmy.dbzer0.com 6 points 10 months ago

I'm checking out her album now. I really like the first track, Don't Know How I Got Here.

[–] shalafi@lemmy.world 1 points 10 months ago

Dogs are far and away the #1 reason I carry in the woods. We got black bears and panthers, not too worried. Not even sure there's ever been a recorded attack in my county. Oddly, I've never seen a coyote, but hear them in the distance every time I camp. Never imagined they would jump a human.

Dogs OTHO? There was a pit bouncing around my front porch the other night. I have a giant dog door for the pig, so I jumped back inside and grabbed the single-shot shotty over the door. Turns out he was just a dumb puppy running around with a young couple and their kids. I cannot describe my relief.