Janice,
I agree. Is that even a coyote? It looks like some ferocious beast, like bigfoot or something.
Part of the problem I have with some of the lone coyotes howling at the moon is that they are just that...lone coyotes. Here we are talking about an engagement, two people together...not apart. But even so, I did like some of the coyote designs that were posted.
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Actually they usually howl in family packs---the leader starts it, and everyone of the pack members answer, and that is how they comunicate to form their hunting parties, and they join up and take off, Dominate male, Dominate female and whatever pups young and grown that are still around and haven't split off into mating pairs. IF the female is denned up with little pups, then the male will hunt alone for family.
And they also will howl to attract a mate, if they are single and have been driven out of the family. Lets everyone in the neighborhood know someone new is around. We hear them a LOT esp. in the spring and fall, saw one jump out ahead of my horse just last week.