Maybe you've seen it, but this was new to me.

Just under 3 minutes video - impressive to watch. Keep a good eye when the coyote and wolf is in the pic together and you'll get an appreciation for the size difference:

Coyote and Wolf pack meet

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Did you see the collar on one of the wolves.

With a pack that big they could take down most any thing.

Wolves were the reason why the coyote’s historical range wasn’t much farther north then the Mexican border prior to the westward movement of white men. As you see in the video, wolves don’t care much for coyotes.

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Wolves were the reason why the coyote’s historical range wasn’t much farther north then the Mexican border prior to the westward movement of white men.

Thank you for posting that. One of the biggest misconceptions people have about predators is what they will and won't eat.

The larger the predator, the greater the prey base available to them, and Big predators, kill and eat Smaller predators!

That is why when you get into the bears, african lions, and tigers, humans are no longer the top of the food chain, they are just a rung on the ladder.

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Did you see the collar on one of the wolves.

I believe two of them were collared.

that first yote, came on that carcass like he was he top dog. The wolves showed him different.

very cool vid, anyone know where it happened?

This looks like a documnetary I saw on a wolf pack in yellowstone.

The explanation given was that the wolf pack leader had just been replaced by a younger wolf.

In the past, the old pack leader would allow this pair of coyotes to come in and feed after they were done.

The new leader was not as forgiving.

In Alberta it's pretty well known that you either have wolves or coyotes in an area. Not usually lots of both as the wolves won't tolerate coyotes.

I can't post pictures but if anyone wants to see the size difference in an Idaho wolf and a coyote hanging together in a tree send me your email and I'll send the picture to you, or if somone wants to post it thats fine with me.

I have seen coyotes kill fully grown buck deer and only last week I was sent a filming of two coyotes killing a huge whitetail buck..I have seen them kill Mule deer and antelope..

I also know that preditors do not kill the weak and poor as National G would have you believe. The are pretty good judges of good meat and they have more intelligence than to eat a sick animal unless they are pretty hungry..On our ranch in the Big Bend of Texas the Mt. Lions wer bad about killing big mule deer bucks during the rut..Dad told me the Lions could find the big bucks by their smell and the bucks were stupid at that time..I observed this phenomina many times as I grew up on that ranch. the rest of the year they mostly killed does and fawns, nice fat ones.