Howling is a great way to locate a coyote. After all, a group of coyotes will howl to assemble, especially after hunting. Family groups will also howl to advertise their presence in an area to other ...

After visiting with friends who own a small farm along the edge of a mountain, my wife Karen and I were preparing to climb into our pickup when the first of several hair-raising howls disrupted the ...

A while back I happened to be sitting quietly in my easy chair reading an outdoor magazine when I was suddenly shocked out of my chair. Out of nowhere was an indescribable clamor of hair-raising ...

A coyote stands in Mount Auburn Cemetery in Cambridge, Mass. Coyotes have lived in the East since the 1930s. Credit: JOSH HARRISON / via AP A few weeks ago my friend, fellow Monitor columnist and ...

This month’s column is inspired by a Facebook post I saw recently, warning neighbors about a coyote seen passing through a local backyard. Coyotes often trigger this kind of instinctive alarm on ...

Many easterners first became familiar with the singing canines when they howled and yipped through the speakers on our televisions in the 1950s and ’60s. It happened often on Rawhide, where Rowdy ...

For decades a debate has raged over the nature of the canids colonizing the eastern United States. Are they the spawn of wolves and coyotes; of dogs, wolves, and coyotes; of dogs and coyotes; or ...