I’ve had a number of coyote encounters. They’re unlike any other animals; they seem to tune into you, like they half-way want to play. Trickster of the Miwok people. Poem of Jaime de Angulo, from Coyote’s Bones:
Coyote, ululating on the hill,
is it my fire that distresses you so?
Or the memories of long ago
when you were a man roaming the hills.
(Ululate=howl)
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I have suspected they often do want to play. they seem to show up a lot in human habitation/human situations. not much reason to fear humans, these days…
Maybe these coyotes are stoned..
http://www.newser.com/story/219686/coyotes-staring-down-calif-drivers-may-be-trippin.html?utm_source=part&utm_medium=usatoday&utm_campaign=syn
Coyotes Staring Down Drivers May Be Stoned
They may have consumed hallucinogenic mushrooms
Newser) – In Canada, coyotes build snowmen. In Marin County, Calif., they get high on mushrooms—or so it seems. At least one and possibly two coyotes have been spotted acting a bit oddly along Highway 1 near Bolinas, reports Pacific Sun. Residents describe an animal forcing nighttime drivers to stop on the twisting highway, staring them down, and attacking their vehicles before taking flight