{"id":1203,"date":"2009-06-06T15:30:55","date_gmt":"2009-06-06T19:30:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/iomaire.com\/?p=1203"},"modified":"2009-06-06T15:32:58","modified_gmt":"2009-06-06T19:32:58","slug":"coyotes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/iomaire.com\/index.php\/2009\/06\/06\/coyotes\/","title":{"rendered":"Coyotes"},"content":{"rendered":"

I’m catching up on my back issues of Acres, U.S.A<\/a>. and read an interesting article about something called Conditioned Taste Avoidance (CTA) that can be applied to predators, including coyotes. The idea of CTA has been around for quite some time – it was apparently first investigated by Carl Gustavson in 1974. Because coyotes are territorial, if you “teach” the coyotes whose territory overlaps yours, they will not attack your livestock and will prevent other coyotes from coming into their hunting grounds. For those interested in learning more about CTA, please visit this website<\/a>. It has everything you need to know, and then some!<\/p>\n

At the end of the article in the magazine, there was an interesting link<\/a> to a researcher who studies the Eastern Coyote. I don’t have the time right now to pursue this, but perhaps one day …. Jonathan Way studies coyotes and coywolves in urban and suburban areas and has written a book, Suburban Howls<\/em>, that documents his research and adventures. From the little that I read, it seems a fascinating field of research. Some might complain that Dr. Way is engaging in an enterprise that romanticizes wolves and coyotes, but I disagree. If we are to live more in balance with nature, as we must, we need to learn that we can adapt to coyotes as they have to us, instead of labeling them as “predators” that must be exterminated.<\/p>\n

Permaculture, after all, is all about learning from nature and applying the lessons learned so that we live a more ecologically sensitive life. The mindset in this video needs to be changed through education:<\/p>\n

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