1205hg+Predator+Essay

Crepuscular Coyote

The directors of the Hunters of the Wild Lands Museum, HOWL for short, are seeking ideas for different type of predators for their exhibits. What would you think about when I say the word predator, lions, wolves, maybe even a shark? Well, have you considered coyotes, brothers of the wolves? So in this essay I am going to persuade the directors that coyotes deserve a place in the museum.

One of the coyote’s important features is its speed. Without its speed the coyote can not capture it’s main prey. Its main prey is the Rabbit. So now do you get why the coyote needs its speed. The coyotes average speed is 30 mph for female and 40 mph for male. Also other prey it eats is the dear, small animals, and sometimes fruits and insects.

Coyotes have unique hunting habits. Hunting habits is just another great feature coyotes have. Coyotes are diverse eaters which means they hunt at night and sleep all day,because humans will hunt them during the day. Another word is crepuscular, which means they hunt at day and sometimes they will hunt very early in the morning. If coyotes are desperate they will eat fruits and insects, but other choices are farm animals and domestic dogs and cats.

The last amazing feature that a coyote has, which a lot of other animals also have, is there pack. The pack is very helpful to a coyotes life because what if the coyotes are trying to catch a deer or another big animal. Coyotes, of course, hunt in packs. The pack that hunts is mostly made up of male coyotes and the pack that stays back at the den is mostly made up of female coyotes and pups. A coyote pack will never interfere with another mans pack. So lets say coyote packs live right next to each other, the coyotes will never talk to them or even go close to to the pack. Like wolves coyotes has an alpha.

There you have it, coyotes are unique animals. This is why I think coyotes belong in the HOWL museum. I mean it is sad that coyotes will eat your pets, but they are magnificent predators. Here is a little fun fact about coyotes, there population is increasing not decreasing. Make a coyote an exhibit in the HOWL Museum.