Product Description: After the sun sets, many coyotes come out to hunt, eat, and play. Words to Know, fun facts, accessible text, and safety tips inform readers about the different ways coyotes communicate, their hunting skills, their family life, and even how to stay safe around coyotes, while full-color photos illustrate the coyotes habits and environment...read more

When city girl Shreve Stockton set out to ride her Vespa from San Francisco to New York, she never imagined she would end up making a log cabin in Wyoming her home, falling in love with a trapper, and working as a ranch hand. She also could not have predicted adopting Charlie, an orphaned coyote pup. In a world where coyotes are hunted as killers, Stockton and Charlie have faced challenges—as well as joys—throughout their first year. Operating Instructions meets Marley and Me in this charming life-lesson book about life, love, and the bond between humans and nature. The Daily Coyote was inspired by Stockton's blog of the same name. Wildly popular and praised by Rosie O'Donnell, James Wolcott of Vanity Fair, and the Los Angeles Times, the site receives over a million hits per month and was nominated for a 2007 Weblog of the Year Award only a month after its inception. Numerous media outlets, from People to NPR, can't wait to feature Stockton and Charlie.

The result of more than two years of research, this study explores the life of the North American coyote, providing more than fifty photographs of this fascinating, endearing, and maligned wild animal

A rancher and a coyote seem unlikely friends, but in this very personal story, the rancher learns from the coyote that there is a strong alliance to be formed to protect the land. On his Oregon ranch, the author befriends and adopts several coyotes who show him the bond between predator and pest in the managed landscape. Reprint.

Here reprinted, this is a classic of the canid literature. Originally published in 1978, Coyotes: Biology, Behavior and Management pulled together much disparate research in coyote evolution, taxonomy, reproduction, communication, behavioral development, population dynamics, ethology and ecological studies in the Southwest, Minnesota, Iowa, New England and Wyoming as well as studies on livestock damage and research on other canids. "At its best in those chapters that draw together widely dispersed information". Science 202, pp. 424 "The book presents an abundance of useful tabular material and cites a great majority of the most significant literature. It is a work that no serious student of the subject can afford to be without". BioScience 29, pp. 312 "A most welcome comprehensive review of coyote research and an introduction to the far-flung literature". Journal of Mammalogy, 60, pp. 658 "I recommend this book to everyone interested in coyotes and the current controversies surrounding this extremely successful predator. A thorough understanding of this animal is crucial and this book is surely a step in the right direction". J. Wildlife Management 43, pp. 279 Marc Bekoff is Professor of Biology at the University of Colorado, Boulder, and is a Fellow of the Animal Behavior Society and a former Guggenheim Fellow. He recently was awarded the Exemplar Award from the Animal Behavior Society for major long-term contributions to the field of animal behavior. Marc is also regional coordinator for Jane Goodall's Roots & Shoots program. He and Jane have recently co-founded the organization Ethologists for the Ethical Treatment of Animals: Citizens for Responsible Animal Behavior Studies (www.ethologicalethics.org). Marc also is on the Advisory Board for the conservation organization, SINAPU, and is part of the international program, Science and the Spiritual Quest II (www.ssq.net). Marc's main areas of research include animal behavior, cognitive ethology (the study of animal minds), and behavioral ecology, and he has also published extensively on animal issues. He has published over 175 papers and 15 books, the latest being Species of Mind: The Philosophy and Biology of Cognitive Ethology (with Colin Allen, MIT Press, 1997); Nature's Purposes: Analyses of Function and Design in Biology (edited with Colin Allen and George Lauder, MIT Press, 1998), Animal Play: Evolutionary, Comparative, and Ecological Approaches (edited with John Byers, Cambridge University Press, 1998) and Encyclopedia of Animal Rights and Animal Welfare (Greenwood Publishing Group, 1998). He has also recently published The Smile of a Dolphin: Remarkable Accounts of Animal Behavior (Discovery Channel Inc.), Strolling with Our Kin (Lantern Books)and Minding Animals: Awareness, Emotions and Heart (Oxford University Press).

Product Description: "The Songdog sings an ancient song. It echoed over the Western plains and deserts long before man was there to hear it. The singer and the song have survived the mastodon, the mammoth, the elephants and the camels that once roamed this continent...read more