[at-l] Coyote Attack

[JPL]

Not to mention that now we've got a new law that says anyone can carry guns in national parks.  How crazy is that?  Anyone have any idea of how to act around someone who is carrying a gun to protect themselves against maybe you? 
Scary.

  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: David Addleton 
  To: jim.stewart at usa.net 
  Cc: JPL ; at-l 
  Sent: Thursday, October 29, 2009 8:48 PM
  Subject: Re: [at-l] Coyote Attack


  oh, can you give more details? Jackals have distinct calls forming a
  hunting party, directing the pack on the hunt, closing for the kill,
  and suppertime is NOW . . . did the acoustics change between passing
  the shelter and the kill? any sense of how many in the hunting party?
  was there a moon? did you find/see the kill/remains the next morning?

  On 10/29/09, Jim Stewart <jim.stewart at usa.net> wrote:
  > had the bajeebers scared out of me last November at Hawk Mountain Shelter -
  > pack went right by the shelter and pulled something down - deer? - about 50
  > - 70 yards south.  Didn't sleep a wink after that....  I will never forget
  > that sound they made...
  >
  > I've also read - on Whiteblaze? - about coyote sightings up near Cowrock.
  >
  > On Thu, Oct 29, 2009 at 19:54, JPL <jplynch at crosslink.net> wrote:
  >
  >>  I've heard them in Shenandoah NP, so I assume they're along the trail.
  >>
  >> ----- Original Message -----
  >> *From:* David Addleton <dfaddleton at gmail.com>
  >> *To:* at-l <at-l at backcountry.net>
  >> *Sent:* Thursday, October 29, 2009 7:31 PM
  >> *Subject:* [at-l] Coyote Attack
  >>
  >> http://www.cnn.com/2009/SHOWBIZ/Music/10/29/canada.singer.killed/index.html
  >>
  >> This attack was in Nova Scotia.
  >>
  >> I've heard coyotes only in Cohuttas, late one night falling asleep
  >> after a long hike.
  >> I heard their calls to chase prey and I heard their foot steps very
  >> close by in a dark, moonless night.
  >> Their calls are not dissimilar to the jackal calls I knew as a kid in
  >> south asia.
  >> I've known ferrel and trained dogs to attack humans, but I wasn't
  >> aware of coyotes doing this.
  >>
  >> Has anyone heard coyotes along the AT?
  >> They must cross it or run near it in some places.
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