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The New Jeep Grand Cherokee – Now with up to 707 Horsepower!
March 8th, 2018 by State Line Chrysler Dodge Jeep Ram
Jeep has done it again; the 2018 Grand Cherokee for sale in Kansas City and Missouri is among the best midsize SUVs available today. Previously it was known for roominess, comfort, reliability, and competitive pricing, and the newest iteration is even better.
As is expected with Jeep; this SUV continues the history of a smooth city ride that can transform into rugged terrain with ease.
The Grand Cherokee provides several options to create a great off-road experience. These include all-wheel drive.
The new Trackhawk version offers a crazy 707 horsepower, far above the already-raucous 475 hp for the SRT model. Other new features include a 7-inch screen, which is 2 inches over last year's model. Tech lovers will enjoy the additions of Android Auto and Apple CarPlay smartphone integration.
Off-road capability is among the best in the business; design both interior and exterior provides a high quality and luxurious feel; the driving dynamics continue to excel, there's an efficient turbodiesel V6 engine and the new 707-horsepower SUV.
The price ranges from $31,690-$88,090 depending on features selected. Contact your Jeep Grand Cherokee dealership in Kansas City for more details.
With the rising cost of gas, it is important to note the Jeep Grand Cherokee receives 19 miles per gallon in city driving, 26 miles per gallon on highways, and 21 miles per gallon combined with rear-wheel drive. With all-wheel drive, these numbers are 18 miles per gallon city/ 25 miles per gallon hwy/ 21 miles per gallon combined. All versions of the SUV use an 8-speed automatic transmission and start with a 3.6-liter V6 engine of 295 hp and 260-lb-ft of torque.
An option on the Limited, Trailhawk, Overland, and Summit versions is a 3.0-liter turbocharged diesel V6. This engine has 240 hp with 420 lb-ft of torque. The engine can tow up to 7,400 pounds. As of 2018, the Environmental Protection Agency has not given specific consumption ratings, but estimates suggest they will be the same as in 2017. Last year these numbers were 22 miles per gallon city/ 30 miles per gallon hwy/ 25 miles per gallon when combined with RWD and 21 miles per gallon city/ 28 miles per gallon hwy/ 24 miles per gallon when combined with AWD.
Another option is the 5.7-liter V8 that can output 360 hp and 390 lb-ft of torque. EPA rates this option at 14 miles per gallon city/ 22 miles per gallon hwy/ 17 miles per gallon combined for an engine that can tow 7,200 pounds.
The SRT has a 6.4-liter V8 that offers 475 hp and 470 lb-ft of torque. Gas mileage is 13 miles per gallon city/19 miles per gallon highway/15 miles per gallon combined.
Finally, the strongest of the bunch, the Trackhawk has a 6.2-liter V8 engine with 707 hp and 645 lb-ft of torque. Fuel consumption on this bad boy is 11 miles per gallon city/17 miles per gallon hwy/13 miles per gallon combined.
The 2018 Jeep Grand Cherokee offers many different trims and options to fit every individual's style and price point.
Which New Jeep Grand Cherokee Should I Choose?
Although the Laredo is considered the base model, this vehicle is no slouch when it comes to design and features. The interior is outfitted with a lot of luxury materials and standard equipment includes keyless entry, rear parking sensors, front and back automatic climate control, a leather steering wheel, 7-inch touchscreen, 6-speaker stereo system with additional USB and audio inputs, 17-inch alloy wheels, backup camera, fog lights, heated side mirrors, and Bluetooth. The Laredo is also available as an AWD using the QuadTrac I system.
Choosing the Limited will earn the driver a cabin reminiscent of a luxury vehicle. The engine can optionally be upgraded to the 5.7-liter V8, and the QuadTrac II AWD system (optional) allows for greater off-road ability with its two-speed transfer case. Standard features include 18-inch alloy wheels, heated rear and front seats, heated steering wheel, a 9-speaker audio system with satellite radio, power liftgate, 8-way power-adjustable front seats with memory functions on the driver's side, leather upholstery, and a 115-volt outlet.
The Overland is sold as an RWD vehicle but is available with QuadTrac II AWD. It has rain-sensing wipers, a sunroof, LED daytime running lights, an 8.4-inch touchscreen with navigation capabilities, cooled front seats, 20-inch wheels, xenon headlights, a power-adjustable steering wheel with wood trim, fog lights, and upgraded leather upholstery.
The Trailhawk is an AWD vehicle with Quadra-Drive II. It is designed specifically for off-road conditions and the advanced features make this Grand Cherokee as rough and tumble as they come.
The Summit uses the Quadra-Drive II as standard equipment, employing that electronic limited-slip differential. This luxury version has virtually every upgrade possible, including a raft of active safety features and a 19-speaker audio system.
The SRT uses standard AWD paired with a lowered suspension and a larger 6.4-liter V8. This trim might not be as off-road friendly as some of the other options, but for those who want to reach their destination in a hurry, this is the model to choose.
The top-of-the-line Trackhawk boasts suede and Nappa leather upholstery and 20-inch sports wheels with high-performance tires and hardware.
Most of the standard features in higher trim levels are available in the more economical versions, as well as additional options such as a towing package and a Blu-ray entertainment system. Cargo space with the rear seats folded is 68.3 cubic feet and 36.3 cubic feet behind the second row of seats. Two storage bins are included under the trunk floor.
The new Grand Cherokee's safety features include anti-lock brakes and six airbags for driver and passenger safety. There is a rearview camera in all Limited edition trims and up. Blind spot monitoring and radar-based collision alert systems are also included technologies in the Grand Cherokee's Limited trim and higher models.
In government crash tests the rear drive on the Cherokee scored superior scores of four out of five stars, and the vehicle received five stars for both its front and side protection in these tests, where it also received five stars for its greater rollover resistance in the AWD model.
When tested by the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety, the Grand Cherokee performed so well it was given top ratings across the board except in tricky small overlap front crash tests. Here it was deemed marginal by the institute.
The New Jeep Grand Cherokee Experience
Drivers are reassured with nimble response and steady suspension when driving the Grand Cherokee on the road. It delivers confidence to the driver with its ability to absorb bumps quickly and confidently, without harshness to the ride.
The base V6 diesel model perform well during acceleration, however, the V8 engine will provide a superior all-out performance making it really fun to drive. The all-wheel drive (AWD) system installed is especially spectacular for high performance with its mix of grip and power.
The Trackhawk model increases your driving intensity to 11, mirroring the power of the Dodge Challenger/Charger Hellcat series. Not even BMW is making their X5 model with this type of power.
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The Crested Butte Center for the Arts has announced that with a multimillion-dollar closing gift from Teddy Feldberg, it has completed fundraising for its new building. Including the Feldberg family contribution, the Center for the Arts capital campaign has raised gifts and pledges totaling the $16.5 million needed to complete construction on the new facility.
The Center for the Arts will now focus on raising $2 million for its endowment, which is also essential to the success of the project.
With this gift, the performing arts theater will be named for the Feldberg family. The gift is a fitting tribute to a family with a rich philanthropic tradition and a long history of giving in the Crested Butte community, going back over 40 years.
"It struck me as the perfect way to honor my husband, Stanley, who was a patron of the arts, and who treasured the music he enjoyed for years in Crested Butte. He was always mindful of giving back to a community that gave so much to him," said Teddy Feldberg.
From the first year the Center opened its doors in 1986, charitable support from Stanley and Teddy Feldberg provided essential funding for arts programs and education, as well as for capital improvements. The Feldberg's daughter, Margery, along with her husband, Dr. Jeremy Levin, are also devoted arts patrons who have long supported the Center for the Arts and Crested Butte Music Festival. Margery was part of the original task force that commissioned the needs assessment that justified a new arts facility more than 20 years ago, and she continued to work through the years to get a performing arts theater built in Crested Butte. She previously served as president of the Mt. Crested Butte Performing Arts Center, which, working collaboratively with the Center for the Arts, sought to build an up-mountain facility.
This summer, the Crested Butte Music Festival will use the Center's existing theater before moving into the new theater for the 2019 season, providing the music festival with a long-term home. The flexibility of seating configurations and floor spaces in the new facility will be perfect for presenting chamber music concerts, operas, gypsy jazz, orchestra events and other musical genres. The Crested Butte Film Festival also recently announced its formal partnership with the Center for the Arts. State-of-the-art lighting, sound and visual technology will enhance the world-class films that will be screened in the new world-class theater.
Three spaces in the expanded arts facility will be publicly acknowledged as the Feldberg Family Theater and the Feldberg Family East and West Courtyards. Scheduled to open in May 2019, the new theater will include space for up to 500 patrons, a balcony and dance floor, and a stage that meets National Endowment for the Arts performance standards and accommodates a full symphony orchestra.
Upon completion, the contemporary arts facility of 28,000 square feet will include the new theater, new outdoor stage, four art studios, four performance studios, new visual arts gallery, a bar and demonstration kitchen for culinary classes and guest chef tastings and a professional catering kitchen. Nestled in the heart of Town Park, the Center's design responds to the community's unique culture and geography. Its distinctive roofs integrate the Center with the town's historic neighborhoods of gabled houses and echoes the sharp silhouette of Mt. Crested Butte that towers over the Center. Phased construction will allow the Center for the Arts to keep its doors open throughout the construction project. For more information visit BuildingintheheARTs.org.


@TheVoiceOfJoyce Let's think Labor Revolution and fund the Society we need to live comfortably. Proposals for getting there! Periscope @11 am Friday. https://thevoiceofjoyce.me/2019/03/14/thevoiceofjoyce-lets-think-labor-revolution-and-fund-the-society-we-need-to-live-comfortably-proposals-for-getting-there-periscope-11-am-friday/ — Read on thevoiceofjoyce.me/2019/03/14/thevoiceofjoyce-lets-think-labor-revolution-and-fund-the-society-we-need-to-live-comfortably-proposals-for-getting-there-periscope-11-am-friday/ The Post for discussion. Revenue & an end to our State of Inequality. Labor Ascending!
Leave a comment @TheVoiceOfJoyce Let's think Labor Revolution and fund the Society we need to live comfortably. Proposals for getting there! Periscope @11 am Friday.


Hortiglass Diffuse, in contrast to other types of glass, isn't developed out of Horticulture float glass. Opposed to Hortiglass Diffuse +AR, the structure of this glass is already added to the glass within the production process. Hortiglass Diffuse offers a high transmission and diffusion of light.


Holed up for a drizzly Spring Break Xzibit would not touch w/ a stretch Escalade, made drearier by the flight of the cinetrix to that hoedown in Austin. It did afford the chance to eat a couple of meals.
Friday night, we went to Parish, on the recommendation of a friend. I wanted to like it, and I do hear good things about the sammiches they sell out of the faux grocery in the basement. The restaurant was, unfortunately, the closest I've ever come to having a meal resemble a seance summoning Delta Burke. The food was shoulderpaddy -- big, vaguely architectural, and not as tasty as should be. I started with what was called a "savory crawfish and chicken sausage cheesecake." What arrived was a giant wedge, vaguely cheescakelike in texture, with a layer of sausagy/crawfishy stuff between the two halves of the wedge. It was unfinishable. The oysters the Cinetrix had were liquorless, and clung to their shells in a disconcerting way (not at the point where they have to be cut out, but a sort of all-over adhesion. My main was a perfectly cromulent, if uninsipred braised pork shank -- in keeping with the general aesthetic of bigness, it was presented in a bone-in Flinstone style. I had expected a section, like what is sometimes called "pork osso bucco," but this was the whole damn leg, or roughly what you would serve if you had the proverbial pig too good to eat all at once. The accompaniment was vile -- I think they called it a tomato-garlic tarte tatin, but what it appeared to be was a lump of sweetened canned tomatoes on a piece of toaster streudel, with whole garlics strewn absently around.
I don't usually talk about the room, but the room would be the reason to go, if there were a reason to go. It's in what appears to be a brand new building, and they have "distressed" the walls for that Old South feel. But the overall effect is stumbling onto the set of a lost Andrew Blake hommage to Gone With the Wind. Giant chandeliers that look as if they are repurposed go-go dancer cages, other chandeliers that are I'm not really a waitress red, and a giant statue of Adam and Eve in the middle of the dining room. The sense that sidework would include fluffing does not make for a great dining experience. ATLiens who are in the know indicated the food was not the point, but rather to be seen, and the heels and iPhone concentrations suggested a sceney scene, one imagines that even the most fabulous Atlantan would enjoy better food than we had.
*A ref to the song, not the novel, or the campaign.
Never been to Austin and want to go, but it may wait for a little while.
Parish is bad. I don't know anyone in Atlanta who likes it. The grocery in the back isn't much better. I once had a muffaletta from there that had, I swear, at least a half cup of olive oil poured on top of it.


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This equipment unloads coal, ore, scrap and other bulk materials from a ship with bucket. According to its capacity and application conditions, continuous type, gantry type and double-link type are available.
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1500t 600t stacker reclaimer for coal mining Stacker and reclaimer is widely used to stack and reclaim bulk cargoes, coal, ore etc. The jib of stacker and reclaimer could slew, luff, prolong and shorten itself.


Tankersley is joining in with Keep Britain Tidy's Great British Spring Clean event, on Saturday 23rd March.
Meeting at 10am outside the Welfare Hall, members of the Parish Council, will work with volunteers to clear litter from Pilley Pocket Park and tidy the bowling green area.
The weather is set to be mild and all are welcome to join in, so why not lend a hand for an hour or so and help keep one of our brilliant parks looking lovely!


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Q: Block sms on ios6 I'm building for a jail-broken device and I want to block incoming messages.
I'm trying to hook _ingestIncomingCTMessage, but it has no result( it seems not working on ios6). How else I can block sms in ios6?

A: Found much better and simpler way. Just as I thought com.apple.imagent daemon is very important and it's him who is handling kCTMessageReceivedNotification. This is why we get empty message object when handling kCTMessageReceivedNotification yourself - com.apple.imagent is removing it from CTMessageCenter.
We need to hook just two methods but finding and hooking them is quite tricky. Both methods are hooked in com.apple.imagent daemon.
First, SMSServiceSession -(void)_processReceivedMessage:(CTMessage*)msg. This is where incoming message is being initially processed, saved to the SMS database and passed to all other iOS components. Problem is there is no information about this API anywhere. com.apple.imagent appears to be not using it if you disassemble it. It's because it's being loaded manually at runtime.
When com.apple.imagent is started he's loading several plugins. The one that we need is located in /System/Library/Messages/PlugIns/SMS.imservice/ - this is where SMSServiceSession is implemented. You will not find binary in there because just like all the frameworks it's compiled into /System/Library/Caches/com.apple.dyld/dyld_shared_cache_armv7. IDA recognizes this file and let's you choose which binary inside of it you want to disassemble.
To delete incoming message and prevent any notifications about it you need to call [[CTMessageCenter sharedMessageCenter] acknowledgeIncomingMessageWithId:[msg messageId]] and return from _processReceivedMessage: without calling original implementation. Calling CTMessageCenter method is important because it queues incoming messages.
Now we need to find a way to know whenSMS.imservice plugin is being actually loaded. Initially imagent only creates NSBundle objects without loading any code. So you can't hook any methods because classes are not yet loaded from the plugins. To solve this we can hook IMDService -(void)loadServiceBundle method from private IMDaemonCore.framework. Call original implementation and you can hook methods inside the plugin. To determine which plugin is being loaded you can check bundle identifier in IMDService -(NSBundle*)bundle.
This method works only with SMS and MMS messages. iMessages are processed in similar way but with different plugin - /System/Library/Messages/PlugIns/iMessage.imservice. Hooking MessageServiceSession -(void)_handler:(id) incomingMessage:(id) encryptionType:(id) messageID:(id) fromIdentifier:(id) fromToken:(id) timeStamp:(id) storageContext:(id) allowRetry:(char) completionBlock:(id) should do the trick.
UPDATE
Works on iOS 7
UPDATE 2
On iOS 8 everything works the same way except you need to hook different SMSServiceSession method - -(void)_processReceivedDictionary:(NSDictionary*)msg. Dictionary will contain all SMS message contents.
If you don't want to rewrite everything for iOS 8 you can reuse your old code. Incoming SMS notification is handled by hidden non-exported C callback function - you can't hook it. First, it calls SMSServiceSession -(id)_convertCTMessageToDictionary:(CTMessage*)msg requiresUpload:(BOOL*)upload to convert SMS message object to dictionary. Then it calls SMSServiceSession -(void)_processReceivedDictionary:(NSDictionary*)msg to process message. Finally, it calls SMSServiceSession -(BOOL)relayDictionaryToPeers:(NSDictionary*)msg requiresUpload:(BOOL)upload to notify all other iOS components about incoming message.
To block SMS you need to hook _convertCTMessageToDictionary where you can use the same code you used on previous iOS versions. You also need to hook both _processReceivedDictionary and relayDictionaryToPeers to actually block incoming message. Just return from them without calling original implementation. You can set some global variable in _convertCTMessageToDictionary and check and reset it in other methods. It's perfectly safe to do it that way - these methods are called one after another synchronously. That C callback function is the only places where these methods are called.

A: This is quite tricky. Apple made major changes in this area. It's very easy on iOS 5 but on iOS 6 I couldn't find easy way to do it yet.
First, you need to observer __kIMChatItemsDidChangeNotification notification using CTTelephonyCenter. I'm doing it in dylib injected in SpringBoard. Not sure but this may be important.
CTTelephonyCenterAddObserver(CTTelephonyCenterGetDefault(), NULL, Callback, NULL, NULL, CFNotificationSuspensionBehaviourHold);

void Callback(CFNotificationCenterRef, void*, NSString* notification, const void*, NSDictionary* userInfo)
{
    if (![notification isEqualToString:@"__kIMChatItemsDidChangeNotification"])
    {
        return;
    }

    for (IMChatItem* chatItem in userInfo[@"__kIMChatItemsKey"])
    {
        IMMessage* msg = [chatItem message];//Incoming message object
        NSString* text = [[msg text] string];//message text
        NSString* sender = [[msg sender] ID];//message sender

        [[IMDMessageStore sharedInstance] performBlock:^{
            IMDChatRecordDeleteChatForGUID([NSString stringWithFormat:@"SMS;-;%@", sender]);
        }];
    }
}

Last bit is very important. You can't just delete message. You need to do it on a specific internal thread or you'll get an error. This is why I'm using IMDMessageStore. It's performBlock: method executes block on this special thread.
IMDChatRecordDeleteChatForGUID function can be found in IMDPersistence.framework. It deletes whole message tree (chat/conversation) with specific GUID. I couldn't find a way to retrive this GUID so I'm building it manually using GUIDs from SMS sqlite database as a sample.
To delete just one message you can use IMDMessageRecordDeleteMessagesForGUIDs([NSArray arrayWithObject:[msg guid]]);
IMChatItem and IMMessage can be found in IMCore.framework. IMDMessageStore is in IMDaemonCore.framework.
This is easy part. Now when you receive message and block it this way you will see that it still shows in MobileSMS app, you still might get bullein notification, you still get badge telling you there is unread message. But if you open SMS sqlite database you will see that message was  indeed deleted. Blocking these is not that easy.

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*Bullein. In SpringBoard you need to hook BBServer method publishBulletin:destinations:alwaysOnLockScreen:. First argument is BBBulletin object. If it's incoming message bulletin it's section property equals com.apple.MobileSMS. To block bulletin just return from this method and don't call original implementation.

*MobileSMS app badge. There is ChatKit.serviceBundle that's being loaded in SpringBoard when there is incoming SMS. You need to hook two methods in MessagesBadgeController - _madridChatRegistered: and _madridUnreadCountChanged:. Their first argument is NSNotification object with object property containing IMChat object. Again, just return from these methods to prevent badge changes.

*MobileSMS app. To stop it from showing already deleted messages I'm
hooking quite a lot of methods. I will just give you the list:
SMSApplication _receivedMessage:, CKTranscriptController
_messageReceived:, CKConversationList _handleRegistryDidRegisterChatNotification:, _handleRegistryDidLoadChatNotification:, hasActiveConversations, unreadCount. CKConversationController
_chatParticipantsChangedNotification:, updateConversationList, CKMessagesController showConversation:animate:forceToTranscript:
About ChatKit.serviceBundle. To hook it's classes you need to wait when SpringBoard actually loads it. This is done in SBPluginManager loadPluginBundle:. Bundle identifier should be equal to com.apple.SMSPlugin. Only then you can hook methods.
That's it. Quite a lot of work but it's working perfectly - no sign of incoming message, even if you were in MobileSMS application when message arrived.
I'm sure there is easier way to do it. There is com.apple.imagent daemon which sends notifications to various iOS components. It's very important in iOS 6 messaging system. Good place to start.

A: i have a better solution to block all SMS messages
%hook CKConversationListController

- (void)viewDidLoad
{
    %orig;

    CKConversationList *list = MSHookIvar<CKConversationList *>(self, "_conversationList");

    if ([list count]) {
        [deleteAll release];
    }
}

%new
- (void)deleteAll:(id)sender {

    CKConversationList *list = MSHookIvar<CKConversationList *>(self, "_conversationList");
    UITableView *messages = MSHookIvar<UITableView *>(self, "_table");

    for (unsigned int i = 0; i < [[list conversations] count]; i++) {
        [list deleteConversationAtIndex:i];
    }

    [messages reloadData];
}
%end

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AOL Mail has been around pretty much since the internet started, so you may be using one of these email accounts on a daily basis. If you're using AOL Mail then importing your contacts is a very simple procedure.
Login to your AOL Mail account on a desktop or laptop computer.
Once signed in, in your inbox you will see Contacts on the left-hand panel.
Above the contacts list click on the Tools and then click on Imports.
You'll be prompted to locate a CSV file on your computer. Just click on the "Browse for file…." and then locate your file where it is on your computer or laptop and once you've located it press 'Import'.
The process will take just a few seconds. Once you have imported your contacts you will be able to view them all in your AOL Mail contacts list. You can automatically add info to your contacts, like their picture, their job description, company and much more using a service like Covve. Covve automatically scans the web, adds contact info and helps you seamlessly stay in touch with your contacts. Check it out here.
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Coronavirus: Hospitalized Ohio man on Facebook Live describes fighting COVID-19
WARREN, Ohio -- Viewers of an Ohio man's social media videos are witnessing firsthand what it's like to have a severe case of COVID-19.
Kevin Harris, 55, has been sharing his experience on Facebook from his hospital bed at Mercy Health St. Joseph Warren Hospital in Warren, located about 60 miles east of Cleveland.
"I was leaning over the side of the bed, throwing up, thinking out loud, 'Oh God, please don't let me die like this,'" Harris said in a Facebook Live broadcast from his hospital room.
Wuhan, China, confirms only 1 new coronavirus case for 2nd straight day
Americans are waking up to a country on virtual lockdown -- empty streets, closed businesses -- as confirmed cases of the new coronavirus are on the rise.
The father of four says COVID-19 feels like suffocating and going in to cardiac arrest at the same time. Visitors for him are limited and heavily protected. Harris believes this virus will change the world.
"I think it's going to bring everybody closer," he said.
Harris doesn't know when he'll leave the hospital, but he said his lungs are improving and he's hopeful about recovery.
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A youth vigilance group, popularly called "the Civilian JTF'', said it apprehended two women attempting to smuggle assault weapons into the Monday market in Maiduguri on Sunday.
Eyewitnesses told newsmen that the women, who concealed the weapons in their dresses, were nabbed at the Bulabulin entrance gate of the market.
One of the witnesses, Malam Modu Bulama, a trader, said that they were in the market when they heard noise from the gate.
"We rushed to scene, but on getting there, we saw two women in veil with assault weapons,'' he said.
Bulama said that each of the women concealed an AK 47 rifle, a pistol and some items believed to be Improvise Explosive Devise (IED) in their veil.
A member of the vigilante, Malam Usman Ibrahim, corroborated Bulama's claim, adding: "we were on a routine checking at the gate when these women came with heavy veil.
"At first we did not bother to look at them, but we realised that one of them was shivering, we said something must be wrong,'' Ibrahim said.
He said that when they were searched, "we found that each of them concealed an AK 47 rifle, a pistol and IED in their veil.
"We were surprised at the discovery, so we took them to officials of the Joint Task Force (JTF) on Operation Restore Order (ORO) for investigations," Ibrahim said.
The JTF spokesman, Lt.-Col. Sagir Musa, could not be contacted for comment, but a senior military officer, who spoke on condition anonymity, confirmed the story.
God Almiht Allah will bring peace to our beautifull Maiduguri,use to be a fine ,nice peaceful place to live in the North,apart from 1 time Maitaisine from cameron that bring problem back long ago, then now devil group Boko Harm. am happy the youth JTF and normal Maiduguri people are helping theirself and Govt. to get out of this useless killing of innocent and no job or work again over their everything stop,who want to die b4 is time,they want to bring Brono state backward to 2000yrs after they are 1 ot the backward in education.without education u cant make it in this world ,Govt will use us without knowing our right,that was hwo this killer Boko Harm get inside this place as first place,cos they brainwash the uneducated people to tell them ,join us we are God Amry e.t.c.that reason am not happy when F.Govt relist the Boko Harms wifes,they should only relist their children under age of 12yrs the rest they all killer with their father.
imagin women with AK 47.things are happening in nigeria.may God save us all.
Na wa o. it is finish even women 2? na real true say behind every successfull man dare is a woman, and behind every unsuccessfull man dare is also a woman.
Where are we heading in this world, if women can reach an extent of carrying dangerous weapons in public. Shame.
My advise to all of those who claim to venerate Jehovah God, please desist from such acts which are blasphemous in the site of our lord Jesus. Please I beg oo.
M**em people are wicked,even woman!
this is getting 2 much in 9ja,may god save us 4rom this pple.i now blieve that wot man can do women can even operate and do it better.no douting.
It's only d LORD-JESUS dat can save us.


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Barrows Dunham (October 10, 1905 – November 19, 1995) was an American author and professor of philosophy. Best known for popular works of philosophy such as Man against Myth (1947) and Heroes and Heretics (1963), Dunham also gained notoriety as a martyr for academic freedom when he was fired from Temple University in 1953 after refusing to "name names" before the House Un-American Activities Committee.

Life
Dunham was born on October 10, 1905, in Mount Holly Township, New Jersey into a Philadelphia family with progressive leanings. His maternal grandfather had commanded a regiment of freed slaves in the Civil War, and his father James Henry Dunham was a Presbyterian minister who resigned his ministry in 1912, when Barrows was seven years old, because his study of philosophy and science, begun in the 1880s and 90s at the then College of New Jersey and at the University of Berlin,  led him ultimately to disbelieve in supernatural religion. He took a Ph.D. in philosophy from the University of Pennsylvania in 1913 and went on to become a professor and dean at Temple University, where his son would eventually come to teach as well.

Barrows was educated in a Philadelphia private Quaker grade school and high school, the William Penn Charter School and, for a final pre-university year, at Lawrenceville School, through all of which he absorbed a full classical education, including Greek. At Princeton he was introduced to the formal study of philosophy, and though he began teaching English at Franklin and Marshall College upon receiving his A.B. from Princeton in 1926, Dunham returned to Princeton in 1928 to pursue a master's degree and, ultimately, a Ph.D. in philosophy. His dissertation was titled Kant's Theory of the Universal Validity of the Esthetic Judgment, later published as A Study in Kant's Aesthetics.

Called before the House Committee on Un-American Activities on February 27, 1953, Dunham refused to answer any of the questions posed to him, providing only his name, date of birth, and birthplace. He invoked his Fifth Amendment constitutional privilege against self-incrimination in response to all further questions. The choice to defy the Committee so early in his testimony was a direct by-product of successful criminal prosecutions against prior witnesses (such as the Hollywood Ten) who had declined to answer based upon the First Amendment protections of freedom of speech and association and others who had answered some questions about themselves but unsuccessfully asserted the Fifth Amendment privilege as a basis to decline to provide information about others.

As a result of his refusal to cooperate with the Committee, Dunham was immediately suspended by Temple University.  He was fired on September 23, 1953 for supposed "intellectual arrogance" and "obvious contempt of Congress."  Congress formally cited him for contempt on May 11, 1954.  He was criminally tried in the United States District Court for the District of Columbia in October 1955 and acquitted.  Temple University did not reinstate Dr. Dunham, and he was blacklisted from academic employment for fourteen years, until he received a visiting professorship at the University of Pennsylvania School of Social Work in 1971.  Temple University was censured by the American Association of University Professors for its treatment of Dunham.

In 1981 the Board of Trustees of Temple University reinstated Dunham, following a recommendation by President Marvin Wachman, acknowledging that they should not have dismissed him for exercising his constitutional rights. Dunham became a professor emeritus and was awarded a lifetime pension. The pressure to reinstate Dunham came from the Faculty Senate and Fred Zimring, an academic advisor in the College of Liberal Arts  who had investigated the case in his doctoral dissertation, "McCarthyism, the Cold War, and Temple University: the Dismissal of Professor Barrows Dunham from Temple."

Bibliography
 Ethics, Dead and Alive (1971)
 Heroes and Heretics: A Political History of Western Thought (1964)
 Thinkers and Treasurers (1960)
 Artist in Society (1960)
 Giant in Chains (1953)
  Man against Myth (1947)
 A Study in Kant's Aesthetics: The Universal Validity of Aesthetic Judgments (1934)

See also
 American philosophy
 List of American philosophers

References

1905 births
1995 deaths
Humboldt University of Berlin alumni
People from Mount Holly, New Jersey
Princeton University alumni
Temple University faculty
University of Pennsylvania alumni
20th-century American philosophers

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Rendezvous, Mid-January
by yipps:janetkessler in coyote behavior, family interactions, family relationships, family structure, father coyote behavior, greetings, rendez vous
The Rendezvous is a recurring nightly coming-together of coyote family members. It usually happens at about dusk, right before taking off together or separately on their treks to mark their territories and hunt and otherwise be together. It's a highly social event with interactions occurring between each individual: there are greetings following rank protocols, and there's usually play and teasing between the different individuals.
These rendezvous are always interesting to me — great for learning about individual and family dynamics. Each rendezvous is different, with different seasons revealing different priorities and seasonal stages. Their individual personalities pop open when they're together, as well as their stages of development — things you don't always see when you see individuals alone, or see them only very occasionally, or without knowing who each individual is, including teasing, affection, disciplinary level, etc. Because they aren't just hurrying away or hunting, certain things become more obvious: statuses, injuries, courting behavior, changes in relationships such as burgeoning rivalry between brothers, who is missing (because of death or dispersal). If dogs interfere, then their reaction comes into view.
Rendezvous usually occur at dusk, so the waning light makes observing, and even more so, "capturing" the observation, more difficult. Towards the end of this session, I was literally guessing where the coyotes were as my camera captured the blackness, which I was then able to edit into readable, even if extremely substandard images. So here are a few sequences that had meaning for me. I'm sure there was a lot I missed in-between these, but these will give you an idea of how full those get-togethers are. I believe you all can see more through still images, rather than a video where you might actually miss what is going on. But also, videos take up a lot of space and, for me, are harder to edit down. Nevertheless, I have included two short video sequences here and inserted them where they fit in chronologically.
1 & 2 pup cowers as dad approaches; 3 & 4 pup reaches up to dad with snout and paw
This rendezvous, from when the first coyotes appeared, until they departed the area, lasted exactly half an hour. As I said, by the time it ended, I could not see anything clearly. It began with a youngster appearing and looking around. He soon cowered submissively asa snarly Dad approached him. After cowering acceptably to Dad's satisfaction, the youngster — 9 months old at this point — still keeping himself low to the ground, stretched up his snout and then his paw in a submissively accepting gesture to Dad. But the status routine apparently wasn't settled yet, because the youngster, see second group of photos below, attempted following Dad, and was repelled by Dad's snarly glare — communication is very clear to every coyote. The youngster again cowered and went the other way. Within a few minutes after this, Dad was happy with the respect shown him, and allowed the youngster to relax close by (last of the 8 first photos).
5, 6 & 7 pup follows dad but is repulsed by dad's expression; 8 finally the two relax proximately to each other [each galleries can be clicked for a larger view, and then scrolled through]
Most observers aren't able to break apart these different interactions as they observe. More is going on here than mere greetings, statuses and interactions. It's pre-mating season, so mating time is going to commence soon, if it hasn't already.
Then, Mom arrives. Mom arrives and vocalizes, and the rest of the family joins in as she hurries over to them (video below)
Above video: Mom arrives and vocalizes, and the two other family members join in.
Above, 1) Mom arrives and begins howling. #2 Dad responds as does the one youngster there. #3 Mom hurries over to them and sniffs around. #4 Mom urinates. #5 Her urine is full of hormones at this time of year and Dad, you can see, is keenly interested in their levels. #6 Dad lets youngster know he's in the way with a snarl: pup pulls his mouth back in a grimace and sits back to allow Dad plenty of room
#1) Second pup arrived on the scene and Dad gave him the same treatment his brother got. #2) Brother takes in that family interaction — they all can and do read minute nuances in each other's interactions and know the meaning of it all. #3) Dad is heading the youngsters away from Mom who you see to the right. I don't know what her intent here is, but you'll see her later reaching out to say hello to this male pup of hers. #4 Mom heads away from them and eats grass: she's nervous, while #5) Dad dozes nearby. At this point, #6 it's the youngster who heads towards Mom, possibly indicating that he's ready to get going.
Two other family youngsters were not present. One yearling may have dispersed, but the other youngster is probably still around. Not all family members are always present for these rendezvous. After the last photo above, all family members got up and interacted as you see here in the video below.
Video shows a few moments of the interactions: Dad wove himself between his mate and the youngsters — he didn't want to give them the opportunity to become interested in her other than as a mom. Mating season is about to begin, so he has to keep this kind of order.
#1) Mom stretches and then leads the family pack out, but then she waits for them all to catch up and she #2) brings up the rear. #3) Note that her interest is first and foremost Dad: they touch noses as she reaches them, with the youngsters knowing to wait their turn. #4) Mom seems to be intent on saying hello to the youngster she was unable to greet earlier (because of Dad's interference). The last two photos #5) and #6) show them four of them just before they disappeared, with Dad reaching out to touch one of the youngsters at the end there. I've included a small photo here showing how dark it actually was out there for these last images. Photo editing is amazing these days: that is the same unedited photo as #6 above.
Surviving Pup is Excluded
by yipps:janetkessler in alpha pairs, care for the young, coyote behavior, coyote courting behavior, cuddling, families, family interactions, family relationships, hierarchy, social interactions
This was an eye-opening, unexpected observation. I arrived at dawn on October 30th to fog so dense that I could barely make out the outline of anything ahead of me. I was at a dog play pen and noticed what I thought were three German Shepherds meandering around. I climbed up the trail parallel to the enclosure looking for the owner of the three dogs. That's when I encountered Ana, with her dog barking ferociously as she approached me on the trail and I wondered why. I asked her if she had seen the coyotes this morning, and she pointed to within the enclosure. The dogs in the fog had sure fooled me — they were the resident coyotes!
Most of my observations lately have involved single individuals, so I was happy to see several coyotes together for a change and hoped to record some interactions. Coyotes are highly social, so that was bound to happen. The fog and bad lighting were a problem — the "auto" focus was giving me a lot of blurr, but I managed to capture some telling activity.
I began taking still photos. The ones here show Dad, Step-mom and the single remaining pup. The pup's sister had been killed by a car only a few weeks before. If you know coyote youngsters, you'll know that they play with each other incessantly: they are always on top of each other, chasing, tackling, poking, teasing — life for them is one of perpetual motion. There were two pups that survived in this family until a couple of weeks ago when Sister was hit by a car and killed. So this remaining pup must feel exceptionally lonely. You would think that Mom and Dad might fill in the void, but that is not what happened as I watched. In fact, the youngster was excluded from the mated pairs fun and games.
Above you see Mom and Dad together, horsing around and teasing each other. Six-month old pup is off to the side.
Here above is the pup, reaching in their direction but not part of the play.
And here, above, he is looking on as his parents play.
The youngster attempted several times to join the fun, but they never invited him in. Instead, the parents were into their own courting play: pair-bonds are being formed and/or strengthened at this time of the year, so that's where the focus and energy were going. In the last series of photos above, the adults end up turning on the pup angrily, snarling at him and grabbing his snout. In the last photo he snarled back at his step-mom. Below is a video of the group's interactions immediately after the above stills were taken.
A Rendezvous (with changing sibling dynamics)
by yipps:janetkessler in families, family interactions, family relationships, rendez vous, sibling rivalry, siblings
One of the most exciting parts of a coyote's day is the nightly rendezvous. Here, family members who have been resting and sleeping during the daylight hours in spread-out parts of their park, come together to socialize and reconfirm their bonds and statuses before going off on their hunting treks. Each rendezvous can be quite different, some involving the whole family, some involving just parts of the family, some all wiggly and happy with play and games, and some not so. As the pups and yearlings grow, their relationships to each other develop in a gamut of directions. Here is one such rendezvous. Unless you know the individuals and can tell them apart, and know what is going on, these interactions and their nuances can be easily missed. They often occur within a split second, so a camera helps firm up what's happening. The portion of the rendezvous that I saw and wrote about here lasted a little over an hour. I use a lot of photos to explain the abundance of interactions and activity.
The picture galleries can be clicked on to scroll through them at a higher resolution.
It was hot when I arrived at the park about half an hour before sunset. Mom was napping only about 50 feet from the path — unusually close to the path for her — while one of her yearling sons had begun some early exploring and hunting before the family rendezvous. The few humans, some with dogs, who passed by were a quiet bunch. Many did not even notice the coyotes. The sleeping coyote raised her head off and on to watch some of the passers-by, especially if their unleashed, active dogs caught her attention, and the yearling wandered over to a secluded spot in the field where he sprawled out in the growing shade to cool off. It appeared that not much was going to happen with the coyotes socially until the evening wore on a little more — everyone was waiting.
Yearling brother #1 wandering around aimlessly waiting
But then a second male sibling appeared. He looked around, assessed that nothing was going on and found a spot where he, too could bide his time until the evening meetup.
Brother #2
And that's when both brothers set eyes on each other, and things were not calm from then on. These two brothers used to be best buddies, but over time this devolved to where now Brother #1 can't stand the presence of Brother #2. So, Brother #1 came charging towards brother #2 who knew exactly what to expect because the behavior had become routine by now. In response, Brother #2 crouched, drew into himself, and fell to the ground on his back while Brother #1 stood over him with hackles up and snarling menacingly. When Brother #2 found an opportunity, he made a dash to get away as Brother #1 watched him almost disdainfully (see photos immediately below).
Brother #1 slams down brother #2 who then slips away.
Brother #2 continued heading away from his tormentor towards Mom who was still lying on her side in the grasses not far away. Brother #1 followed him. As they approached her, they hugged the ground and crouched, respectfully acknowledging her alpha status. When this ranking is no longer respected, if it comes to that, the youngster will be pushed out of the territory.
Approaching Mom requires a show of submission
But the two brothers were dealing also with their own interpersonal dynamic. In the first row of three photos below, Brother #1 makes an effort to divert Brother #2 away from Mom by getting between them. This is a coyote tactic I've seen before for keeping a rival away from another coyote. But Brother #2 still had his eyes on Mom, and was not giving up on reaching her as seen in photo #4. By photo #5 Mom snarls at what she knows is going on. She doesn't normally care if they fight, but she doesn't want it happening right next to her, so she squelches the activity by grooming the yearling closest to her. Grooming is often used to keep an underling coyote still and force submission — the youngster has to put up with it.
Two yearling brothers interact between themselves and Mom (see text)
But the very minute Mom stopped grooming her yearling son in order to scratch herself, Brother #1 took the opportunity to attack his sibling again.
When Mom turns to scratch herself, bullying Brother #1 attacks his sibling.
Above are a VIDEO and a few photos of the short but telling fight. When the fight subsided, Brother #2 walked away, but both brothers obviously retained stress from the event: Brother #1 started pulling up dry grasses and chewing on them nervously, whereas Brother #2 lay down closer to Mom and did the same thing. I wonder how much of Brother #1's behavior is built in: this antagonism with siblings seems to be one of the factors that leads to dispersal. These siblings are 18 months old — the right age for dispersal.
Shortly after this, and as they were calming down, Dad sauntered into view.
Brother #1 seemed to have moved out of the area by this time — I did not see him again before I left. Brother #2 (below) greeted his approaching Dad appropriately by crouching low and reaching up to lick his muzzle, and then Dad hurried off to greet Mom, with Brother #2 at his side.
Brother #2 greets Dad.
Mom and Dad with yearling between them.
When they caught up with Mom they exchanged nose touches, with youngster Brother #2 in-between, remaining in a crouched, close-to-the-ground position. The youngster appeared anxious to make contact with Mom — maybe this is what drove Dad again to make sure the youngster knew his place in the family scheme. The youngster obliged by flopping to the ground on his back.
Mom and Dad with Brother #2
And here is another VIDEO showing more of the above. The video actually consists of three clips from this rendezvous. 1) Mom, Dad, and Brother #2, showing how reactive Mom got when her son touched her — yikes! Family life is not all warm and cuddly as many people might think. 2) As it gets later and darker, a third brother arrives and is greeted by brother #2 and Dad; 3) People are still out walking at this time, and Dad diverts them away from the rest of the family.
Everything then calmed down and three of them — Dad, Brother #1 and Brother #3 — spaced themselves at comfortable non-interacting distances, yet together, ready to go when the cue would be given by Dad for the evening hunting trek.
There's plenty of space between them now
My camera caught a few more interactions, such as the teasing and playing below, and then it was too dark, so I left.
Calm bantering continues on and off until I can no longer see in the dark.
Last shot of Brother #2 as I leave. The camera, amazingly, captured this and adjusted the light.
Scout Fall Update
by yipps:janetkessler in coyote behavior, families, family interactions, family relationships, Scout
Scout's story continues, but without the obvious adventures she had in her early life, or maybe they are continuing in a more subtle way, below most human's radars. I see her only periodically where she had her pups this year, and just as periodically in her old hangouts where I used to see her almost single day. Instead, she's become a stealthy shadow which my field camera occasionally picks up on, and who I see in person only a couple of times a month, if that. But I know from other people who know her that she has been moving deeper into her new territory which has/does belong to another coyote family. Will this be a territorial takeover? We'll see. Remember that she had a baptism by fire in territorial battles and takeovers when she was younger, so she's well seasoned if this is the direction she's taking.
Over the last month she has appeared a couple of times during daylight hours at her old, original territory. During one of those appearances, she spewed her anger and displeasure to the one dog on her nemesis list. I wasn't there to see or hear it, but I was told about it and sent a video. I guess she'll never give that battle up. Interestingly, her two-year-old son who serves as the mainstay of the old fort, has taken on doing the exact same thing to the exact same dog, most likely in imitation of his mother. Coyotes do pass things along to their offspring in an almost "cultural" sort of way.
On her second daylight appearance, I found her and this same two-year-old son curled up in balls where they used to hangout regularly over a year ago on their old territory. She slept — with one eye open — right through my arrival there, not budging at all, but HE slipped off warily into the bushes where he remained hidden from view.
Two-year-old slithers into a quieter space, while Mom keep her eyes closed.
Meanwhile she went back to sleep. It was before most dog walkers were out and about — she knew she had nothing to worry about until they started arriving.
BUT, soon the dogs arrived. These three photos above shows her lifting her head, and then slowly spiraling her way to a standing position and finally "messaging" an approaching dog to leave her alone. She really didn't want to move, but with the dog slowly approaching, and her son on the other side of her, she put in the effort to look scary. The dog walker got the message if the dog didn't and complied by going the other way, and Scout went back to snoozing for about 20 more minutes. That's when sirens sounded.
Interestingly, these coyotes have never vocalized a whole lot during daytime here in a response to sirens — these have more often kept their vocalizations to night and twilight hours. I wonder if daytime vocalizing is reserved for strongly established territories that the coyotes are able to defend? For many years, Scout was a loner here and she rarely howled during the day, even to sirens, unless she was chased by dogs, particularly her nemesis I mentioned above.
Left: stretching in all directions; Middle: looking over at her son and subtly communicating with him; Right, she begins to howl.
Anyway, a siren sounded when I was there, and Scout got up, taking her time about it. She stretched backwards and forwards and upwards. She stood there a moment as though debating whether or not to howl, and then looked over to where she knew her son was hiding, possibly signaling him to join her, and she began howling in response to that siren.
After she began howling, he then joined her from the distance: you can hear him in the video. After a minute, she walked in the direction of his howls and met up with him. By that time the howling from both of them had ended, and they both walker off together.
Scout walks with her son to keep him company as he leaves. Her son is the bigger coyote to the left.
She then returned alone, and, as seen below, stretched again in all directions and again looked over her shoulder to where her son was, assuring herself that he was happy and safe, and then she fell asleep again — with one eye again partially open. I waited a little while for something to happen, but nothing did, so I left..
A couple of days later I found her and her mate at their new territory at dusk, or maybe it's their territory's extension. I saw them as silhouettes, but the camera sometimes does better than my eyes and captured the images below. She's with her mate in the first photo. They've always worked together intuitively and in tandem, almost as one. I love watching them work together, communicate, and even look at each other. He looks so much bigger than her when they are next to each other.
And below she's doing what mothers do: grooming the one yearling youngster that went with her to the new territory (or extension of her old one). I see her two pups very seldom which is a good thing. Pups throughout the city this year are running the gamut from casual acceptance of their surroundings which include people, to continued careful wariness of them. I don't know where Scout's pups this year fit into the continuum, but I think it's a good thing that I haven't seen them.
Family Infighting Leads to Dispersal
by yipps:janetkessler in coyote behavior, dispersal, family interactions, family relationships
Coyotes are fascinating family-minded social critters whose lives seem to parallel ours in many ways. I write about their family life and interactions and I can see a lot of ourselves in them. They (predominantly) mate for life, both parents (normally) raise the young, and they form intra-family relationships which very much parallel what you'd find in our own families. They each have personalities, individualisms and quirks that other family members learn to deal with . . . or not. There's play, affection, mutual care, and rivalries. There's teasing, mischief, one-upmanship, and competitiveness. There are alliances. There's bullying. They communicate between themselves constantly: most communication is silent through body language and facial expressions. They use vocalizations for emphasis sometimes. Fighting is an amplified negative communication.
There comes a time when the youngsters in a family grow up and leave home. Sometimes, *when* they leave home is based on their own internal time-clocks, and they just pick up and go. At other times they are forced to leave due to growing animosity and conflict with another family member, OR another family member may actually drive them away. Coyotes appear to be programmed to live predominantly in sets of two adults, with pups and yearlings as welcome additions. Beyond this combination makes them edgy and reactive. Their leaving home is called *dispersal* and usually happens sometime between one and two years of age, though I've seen it as early as 9 months and as late as 3 years. In our human families, it usually happens after high school, though it could happen earlier or later, depending on the circumstances.
I was able to capture this video, above, of a two-year-old male driving out a one-year-old female from the family and territory. In this case, it was intense, brutal and painful to watch: and it was to-the-point: "LEAVE", no *ifs* or *buts*.
One thing most people don't realize is how hard life can be for a coyote. Once they disperse, their survival rates plummet: many are killed by cars here in San Francisco (25 last year), and others are forced to keep moving by other coyotes who own territories. Life is always safer for coyotes with territories, which may be why some youngsters desperately hold on and don't move on, but in order to be able to stay, they must be *allowed* to stay by the others, and must accept a subservient position and never rock the boat.
BTW, most dispersing coyotes move south and out of the City of San Francisco because the limited territories within the city are already taken. The Presidio ecologists have documented this really nicely. I have found that many of the territories within the city have been owned by the same families over an extended number of years, which creates a lot of stability in the city's population. When a vacancy does occur within the city, it's because a territory was either abandoned by an older coyote pair whose reproductive years were over, or because a younger coyote or coyote pair were able to challenge and drive out such oldsters. A visibly weak alpha may also be displaced from his/her territory, as was the limping alpha male in West Portal at the beginning of this breeding season: his disability was obvious, and incoming coyotes took advantage of it to displace him. If anyone sees him, please let me know: I have not seen him at all since Spring began. The Presidio territory was taken over by an energetic younger coyote and the remaining older female alpha was forced to move on.
These hardships are part and parcel of coyote life which can appear idyllic at times, and exceedingly brutal at other times. We humans are their stewards: the best way to steward them is to keep away from them, not feed them, and not interact with them. That's what they want, and that is what's not only best for them, but best for us in terms of keeping a peaceful coexistence in place.
Four-Minute Slice of Nightlife
by yipps:janetkessler in cars, coyote behavior, coyotes and cars, family interactions, hunting, social animals, social interactions
As the last bit of daylight flickered out, I was able to see this coyote and able to take a couple photos. The photo to the left approximates what could initially be seen in the little light there was, and that light soon faded away. After just a few shots, the camera would no longer focus automatically. It was too dark to see with one's naked eyes — all I could really see now was that there was movement — but the camera's amazing video setting (manually focused as best as I could) and an at-home edit which boosted the light, brought a few short moments of a mated coyote pair's nightlife and interactions to light, as seen in the video below. Coyotes are very social and interact all the time, and the video at nightfall shows several minutes of them doing so.
Mom was chilling on a knoll of grass, obviously waiting for her mate to appear because when he finally arrives, she hurries over to be with him. The scene takes place along a roadway, and you'll see cars passing by which don't disturb the coyotes. I've learned from observing over the last 15 years that coyotes feel safer under cover of darkness — they know our human vision is not very good at that time.
HE had picked up something and was nibbling on it. Was she reacting to this, or simply greeting him? She raises herself against and over him, and nips the back of his neck. She is the *boss* and she may be emphasizing this. HE stands there and puts up with it UNTIL she gets down, at which point he makes a dash to evade her reach!
She appears to gape in disgust: "Ahhh. Men!" Then she stretches and gapes again before heading in his direction. Before reaching him she passes something smelly and decides to roll in it to absorb its fabulous odors. They both scavenge and appear to find tidbits.
In the meantime, cars pass, one after another which doesn't affect them in the least. Both coyotes wander towards and away from each other as they find scraps of food. BOTH coyotes *gape* now and then: it looks like a big yawn, but I've seen it often as a sign of being upset over something.
Mom looks intently overhead at something and then comes to the edge of the road and looks around as though she's trying to figure out what is going on. She puts her nose up in the air as she whiffs to *see* beyond the cars: they are always scanning for safety. Again she looks up at the sky and then suddenly both coyotes flee in fear. That's when I look up and I see what's bothering them: someone is flying a kite right overhead.
Now it's too dark even for the video setting of the camera — amazing as it is, it can only go so far. But against the lighter sky, I'm able to capture the kite — this is the only section of the video I did not have to brighten to make it visible. The video is mostly blurry because of the lack of light, but at least you can see what is happening.
A Mated Pair in Sync
by yipps:janetkessler in awareness, camaraderie, care for each other, coyote behavior, family interactions, pair behavior, social interactions, waiting
I first spotted him in the distance as a silhouette against the sky. As I got closer I saw who it was.
It's always a joy to catch a glimpse of this pair and catch up on how they are. I don't see them nearly as often as I used to, which over the years has been pretty much every single day. With more ailments, aches and pains as they age, I'm sure they feel more vulnerable and less inclined to risk encounters with dogs. This morning I was overjoyed to see one of them at dawn. I could only see a dark silhouette on the horizon against the lighter sky. I hurried over to be able to identify who it was: it was Dad! He was sitting on a path as the daylight slowly creeped over the horizon. When the first leashed dog walked by in the distance, he got up and sauntered away and over to a grassy knoll, where he again lay down and kept his gaze in one specific direction.
He got up, stretched, scratched, and went over to another grassy knoll where he continued his vigilant gaze
Suddenly his intense gaze softened and he got up slowly as though he were finally ready to leave. And it's then that I noticed his mate had suddenly appeared next to him. Now his focused gazing into the distance made sense: he had been waiting for her, keeping an eye in the direction she had gone and from which she would be coming. And SHE knew he would be there waiting for her. They are a pair closely in tandem.
And that's what he was waiting for, his loyal mate!
They greeted each other gently, warmly, knowingly — I sensed the deep intuition they had for each other — and then they began walking off together, but not before she, the female, acknowledged me from the distance with a knowing glance. I've known her for her whole life since she was born, but I've known — or I should say *observed* — him only as long as she has, as long as they have been mates over the last two years.
They loitered together for a few moments, and then headed off in the same direction, to the same destination, but on separate paths. SHE continued on the upper trail where I was, and he took what I would call a safer route..
They loitered together for just about a minute, poking into the ground and circling each other. I think he wanted to walk on immediately, but he waited for her, while she seemed to be stalling before *heading-in* for the day together. I had the sense that her stalling was actually testing me — coyotes constantly test — watching for my minutest reactions and reading every flinch I made. I guess I passed, as I always seem to have, because she slowly turned to take the high road where she knew I could observe her (and have many times) even though dogs and people might be on this path — she may even have known that I would be asking folks to leash, as I often have — I absolutely believe she knows when this goes on — whereas he, the male, felt more comfortable taking the lower path where there was plenty of foliage to duck into if a chance encounter were to occur with a dog. So they took separate but parallel paths, based on their individual comfort levels, but still in tandem and within view of each other.
She kept looking in his direction, making sure they were keeping apace of each other.
I soon lost sight of him below the crest of the hill, but I knew he was there because she kept looking back in his direction. She followed a narrow path around the hill, then crossed over the lower path and descended into the thicket. And then, within 2 minutes, he appeared at that same spot, and he also disappeared.
First she descended and disappeared into the nearby woods (left), and he soon followed (right).
It was a real pleasure to see the harmony between these two. They communicate intuitively — and by that I mean in ways we may not be able to decipher: As I watched, I could feel that deep understanding between them. Lately, when I see them, I almost always see them together, just the two of them, without any of their offspring, though the family does come together every evening. These parents have been together for two litters now, and I'm expecting there will be another litter coming up next year.
I probably won't see them again for a while — that's the latest pattern — but I felt caught up!
Photo Essay: Unwelcome Greetings
by yipps:janetkessler in communication, coyote anxiety, coyote behavior, coyote parenting, coyote pups, families, family interactions, greetings, hierarchy, parenting, rendez vous
Mom was napping in the brown grasses in the late afternoon which is something she routinely does before the evening rendezvous: it was peaceful and calm as the day wore down. "Ahhh, this is life" could have been a thought coming from her head just then. She held her head up every few minutes and looked around and then let it fall back down and closed her eyes. As it got darker, she slowly began to move more and more, and finally she got up and stretched and ambled ever so slowly to I don't think it mattered where, and then she stopped short.
Mom relaxing, getting up and stretching, and stopping short
My camera was focused on her, so at first I didn't see what was going on outside the area of focus, but her stopping and staring told me that something had grabbed her attention.
Two of her seven-month-old youngsters — I would not call them pups anymore since they are close to full-sized coyotes — appeared. She watched as they greeted each other according to the ranking they had established between themselves. Suddenly my expectation turned to the wiggles and squiggles and ever- so-happy greetings I've seen so often at these greetings.
The two youngsters greeting each other and showing their rank towards each other
But no. She apparently wanted at that moment to have nothing to do with them, and possibly to continue in the calm space she was in. Communication between coyotes is very definite and precise — much more so than human words which, as we all know, can be very imprecise: facial expressions and body language leave no room for misinterpretation. She was facing away from me, but I knew exactly what was going on with the little I could see: she opened her snout threateningly, wrinkled her nose, pulled back her lips and displayed her teeth: "Hey kids, leave me alone!"
The youngsters approach mom very hesitatingly and carefully, and in the next photo you see why
In these two photos above, Mom is snarling at her pups who just wanted to say hello and pay their respects
And the youngsters, of course, knew exactly what she meant. They had been approaching her in low crouched positions, carefully and gingerly, showing their respect and subservience — they had obviously encountered her unwelcoming side before. Mom apparently was not in a mood to deal with them. She stood there, keeping them at bay through her snarls and body language.
Well, they approach anyway, and her snarls become very prominent — maybe they are conflicted about what is required of them. Note their eyes in the photos above: one looks sideways rather than directly at Mom; one looks at the other questioningly.[To enlarge photos, click on any one of them, and then scroll through the rest]
In the above two photos she puts them down and continues to snarl at them
They move away from her
The youngsters were nervous and turned to interacting calmly with each other: grabbing the other's snout, falling to the ground, hugging against each other as if for self-protection, etc. They then slowly approached Mom — they felt compelled to greet her — it's their innate etiquette to do so — even if just to allow her to grab their snouts in a show of solidarity with their respective relationships. After that, and with the continued snarling, they moved on slowly and Mom lay down again in the grasses — the rendezvous and interactions would have to wait until SHE was ready.
They keep looking back at her wondering why she's so off-putting.
Well, above, mom is back resting in peace, which is all she wanted in the first place; and below is one of the youngsters, following her cue: "might as well wait it out".
These stills are of that interaction, taken in bursts, and at late dusk when there was little light, which is why they are blurry. I could have taken a video, but you would have missed the nuances of what was going on, which requires stopping the action, to see, interpret, and reflect on the behaviors.
A Calm Rendezvous at Dusk: Family Life
by yipps:janetkessler in coyote behavior, families, family interactions, pupping, rendez vous, social behavior
Family members usually hang low during daylight hours, often resting and sleeping in very different locations, and then come together in the evening to begin their activity with their rendezvous which is a very social event where there is a lot of physical contact and grooming, and social interactions such as play and reaffirmation of rankings. Usually the entire family is involved — it might be the one time you are able to see the whole family together.
Alpha female and male greet each other after having spent the daylight hours apart, quietly resting
In the video, Mom, the alpha female, is already out in the open grooming herself when the alpha male joins her at a short distance in the grasses. These two had already greeted each other with nose touches and minor grooming about 200 yards away about ten minutes before this. They spend their time here grooming themselves and biting at gnats or mosquitoes.
Soon one of the youngsters arrives and flops on his back for a long and thorough grooming, mostly to his belly. Grooming serves not only to rid them of all sorts of bugs, such as ticks, but it's a bonding mechanism as well, and also a control measure: the youngster, as far as I have seen, is required to put up with it whether he/she likes it or not. After the long period of grooming where the youngster lies perfectly still, the two other youngsters arrive. This is a family of five. These youngsters are almost six months old now. They look smaller than they really are because they are keeping low as required.
The controlling adult snarls and snout-clamps, and the pups remaining low to the ground and even crawling on their bellies are how the strong hierarchy, and therefore order, is maintained. When the youngsters start resisting this order is when it's time for them to go.
As rendezvous go, this one is very calm. I've seen them where the youngsters are rearing to go and hardly able to contain themselves in anticipation of the family activity after a daytime of quiet. Parents will be leading them to new places and new adventures — all of it a learning experience for them.
The "Abandoned" Family
09 Aug 2021 2 Comments
by yipps:janetkessler in affection, communication, coyote behavior, families, family interactions
Old alpha female guarding her pups from atop a knoll overlooking the area, and snoozing at the same time, always with one eye open!
Here she is barking at a dog lingering too close to her denning area.
What's happening in the family Rookie abandoned, and why might he have left?
You'll recall from my posting that Rookie was actually an unwelcome intruder to begin with within the family he joined and then left. He had moved in on that family which had lost its long-time alpha male to old age, and he moved in right during the short breeding period. The scent of hormones called and he filled that role. But I don't think Rookie was ever totally accepted. I continued to see the original family grooming each other ever so affectionately — in Rookie's presence — but he himself, Rookie, appeared to be groomed less often and more out of a sense of duty than anything else.
The remaining yearling male in that family, a two-year-old who might otherwise have been encouraged to disperse, was obviously being encouraged by his mom and remaining sibling to stick around — something I could see through the family's greetings, grooming and interactions. Well, he's still there, and with Rookie gone, he appears to be in the process of moving into that alpha male position if he hasn't already done so.
I get the impression that both Rookie and his abandoned family are happier and better off with the change. Rookie has been warmly and openly accepted by his new mate in a new territory, whereas I don't think he had ever been totally integrated into the family he left — he always remained "the outsider". This may be the reason he left. From what I've seen in coyote families, interpersonal dynamics and feelings run very much parallel to our own, the big difference being that they seem to move on quickly with the challenges and changes that confront them: with an attitude of, "it is what it is". And this "abandoned" family is doing just fine — even better — without him. Several generations before this, by the way, within this same family, the family existed and thrived without an alpha male — that male had been killed by rat poison. Over time, one of that alpha's male offspring ended up moving into that alpha position. This family is quite an inbred one.
How has the abandoned family adjusted to Rookie's departure? The old alpha female is now the sole overseer and guardian of the family — she had been very much under the thumb of her previous old mate — the one who died of old age — she was always "second" to him in command. But that has now changed. She can be seen guarding and messaging intrusive dogs. Her vigilance keeps her more out in the open, and takes her to knolls with vistas where she perches herself for snoozes, always with one eye open. And she is raising her pups born this year. She still keeps them well hidden, and disciplines them severely for breaking her rules. A couple of days ago I heard intense angry growling, and then the response: the high-pitched complaining yelps of a pup being disciplined. I tried recording it, but did not catch enough of it to post it.
I have not seen the alpha female's two-year old daughter lately — this is a littermate of the remaining male yearling. Remember that she also and unusually, for being in the same territory, became a mother this year. The last time I saw her she had a horrible huge (6″x 12″) raw, red, inflamed wound on her side. I got the impression it was some kind of mite. I hope she's healing and I hope she's still around. I'll keep my eyes open for her. [UPDATE: Good news! I saw the two-year-old daughter one day after I posted this writeup: she was hunting alone in a field and her hotspot seems to have resolved itself!]
Two-year-old male son of the alpha female is acting as the ipso facto alpha male now. He obviously feels very relaxed at the way things are now.
Alpha mom grooms her yearling male son, creating a tighter bond and promoting him as the territorial male.
And her son grooms her in return just as affectionately.
Pups are a big part of this warm domestic situation (above).
And off this pair goes, for their evening trek together, probably very happy that Rookie left.
Father/Son Greetings
by yipps:janetkessler in coyote behavior, family interactions, father coyote behavior, greeting, greetings, parenting
You might think that when a coyote father comes upon his one year old son out in the field alone, he might exude joy and recognition. But the answer is a firm, nope! There is protocol which must be followed. Parents must be in charge, and youngsters must at all times accept their lower status in a family pack which resides on a territory which is exclusively theirs.
This series of photos shows a typical greeting between an almost one-year-old son and his father.
As father approaches,
Son hits the ground
Upon first seeing each other, Dad stares hard and coldly at his son, almost challengingly: he obviously is communicating to his son what is required of him. Coyotes communicate mostly silently and visually, through eye contact, facial expressions, and body language. They can communicate and read subtleties way beyond what we humans are able to. Here, Son reads the message instantaneously and hits the ground submissively the minute he sees Dad approaching and Dad's "look". Dad then approaches son slowly and carefully, and with a continuing glaringly hard look. The greeting is serious business in the coyote world, where rank matters above all else. Affection and fun can only come after the stage is set or confirmed for who is boss. Notice Dad's hackles are up most of the time during this interaction.
Approaching dad at a low crawl
Dad has a hard look, as though watching every move of his son
Dad retains his hard look as son circles to lower himself on the ground
Now son can look Dad in the eye from a lower position
Dad and son sniff and touch noses
Dad stands over son dominatingly for a moment
When Dad stops approaching, son gets up part way and crawls towards Dad, submissively, keeping as low as possible. When he reaches Dad, he circles down, with head bowed down, and Dad comes over to sniff him and stand over him. They hold their positions for a moment (six photos above).
Dad's focus is broken
Son takes the opportunity to slither away
They touch noses, but Dad's approval hasn't been granted
Tentative nose touches
Still, too tentative
Son hits the ground again showing his complete submissiveness before they move on
When Dad's focus is diverted and broken by some distraction in the distance, son takes the opportunity to slither out from under Dad, but wait a minute! Dad doesn't appear to be ready yet to let go of his psychological hold. Keeping himself low, Son extends his snout for approval but decides it's best to hit the ground again. This seems to satisfy Dad, because then son hops back up, and the two go trotting off together. Son will end up enticing Dad to play, which I'll post coming up.
Friction Between Almost Two-Year-Old Siblings
by yipps:janetkessler in coyote behavior, dominant vs. submissive, family interactions, siblings
They're looking around as a siren blasts, waiting anxiously for family members to respond to it. There is no response from anyone this time, which might have left them a little worked up.
This posting is about twenty-month-old siblings (observed two months ago): a brother and a sister. There is another brother who appears to be best friends with this sister — unlike the brother in this posting, he's gentle and doesn't try to dominate: see tokens of respect and generosity are proffered and acknowledged in the coyote world. Coyotes get along with some of their siblings more than others, and it appears to be based on how they are treated. Friction can either grow and lead to a coyote's dispersal — I've witnessed this a number of times — or it can mellow out again.
He approaches her provokingly and dominatingly. She snarls defensively.
Sister's interactions today were with the brother who has had a tendency/predisposition to dominate. Today he tried putting her down — standing over her — dominating.. But she didn't like it and wouldn't have it. Coyotes actually choose who they want to submit to — they always have the choice of leaving. So, for instance, just the previous day, Mom stood over this daughter dominatingly, as you would expect — that's her job — and Daughter patiently and willingly accepted and tolerated it: you don't mess with Mom unless you want to lose your good standing in the family, and that good standing counts for a lot, such as ability to remain on the territory. And besides, Daughter appears to really like Mom and wants to be agreeable towards her: peaceful families require Mom and Dad to be strong, no-nonsense leaders whose authority is not questioned. They can only know they have this control if the youngsters submit to them willingly.
She ends up lunging at him, snapping at his snout (maybe even trying to grab it) and then moving off
Brothers are different, and especially this brother. He, too, kowtows easily to his parents. But not towards either of his siblings — and they don't expect this of him. However, he does (has) of them. He constantly puts down the other brother, and the other brother (the sister's favorite) tolerates it probably because he doesn't want to rock the boat: if he stood up to the brother and lost, one can imagine that he might be forced to leave both the territory and his sister, whom he obviously cares for very much as revealed in his behavior towards her.
She lies down closeby and snarls at him as he approaches again. Then she walks off and he watches her go.
Dispersal is not something a youngster takes on lightly. It is a dangerous time due to the unfamiliar territory they would have to navigate, traffic, and hostile coyote territorial owners who would drive them away, and due to simply being young and inexperienced. Dispersal means taking on the unknown. So there's a lot at stake in these squabbles. It's interesting to watch which way it will go: the intolerable grudges lead to dispersals, and others dissipate if the bullying stops.
After the incidents of the day — him trying to put her down, and her resisting and "telling him off" with a lunge towards his face and a toothy and vocal snarl — I didn't see them together for a couple of weeks. When I finally did see them together, from all appearances, it looked as though this pattern of behavior had continued, because Sister was keeping her distance and avoiding any contact with that brother (see photo below).
Two weeks later they still weren't getting close to each other, but kept an eye on each other from a distance (see photo above). Sounds a little like human behavior, doesn't it?? AND, two weeks after this photo, they are friends again, as if nothing had ever gone wrong!!
As of this posting, at 22 months of age, these two yearlings still remain a part of the family they grew up in: they seem to have overcome their friction and are perfectly mellow towards each other at this stage. Maybe Sis taught him a thing or two about coexistence among themselves!!
I should note that the sequence of behaviors I describe in the photos of this posting began after both coyotes listened and waited for other family members to respond to very loud sirens, but no one did. The tensions resulting from this anticipation were palpable, and may have been what set off the male coyote's actions towards his sister.
Playtime and Fun For a Coyote Mated Pair
10 Feb 2021 16 Comments
by yipps:janetkessler in care for each other, coyote behavior, coyote fun, family interactions, pair behavior, playing, social behavior, social interactions
At the crack of dawn (with no light, I'm surprised these photos are even readable), this mated coyote pair, which has been together for a year now, broke out into into a giggle-wiggle play session: they chased each other, lept over and onto each other, sparred playfully, and smiled a lot. They knew how to enjoy themselves thoroughly in and in-between-the-raindrops that fell that day. This is an almost 4-year old male and an almost 3 year old female who really like each other. They may be incorporating this intense play into their current courting behavior, but truth-be-told, they've been playing like this for the entire year-and-a-half they've been together! Coyotes know how to have fun! This video along with these photos were taken a month ago, at the beginning of January.
Update: This Gypsy/Divorced Coyote Has Found Himself YET Another Home!
by yipps:janetkessler in "divorce", coyote behavior, families, family interactions
This posting covers the end of territory #4, territory #5 and the beginning of Territory #6. Most coyotes I've known retain their locations for years and years — but not this guy!
Here he is, only a few days ago, in his new home.
I last wrote about this fella, who I will call Monte here (I always use pronounceable names instead of numbers — they are easier to remember and don't dehumanize them), after things had settled down a bit from the tumultuous events of a year ago: mating-for-life might be the norm in the coyote world, but it's not hard-and-fast: see Till Death Do Us Part?
To sum up briefly, his mate had left him for another guy. Coyotes generally guard their mates during mating season, keeping all other suitors at bay. BUT, this fella was more interested in the food he was being offered daily than in guarding his mate. This required him to be away from his mate as he traveled the distance and then hung around for hours-on-end where he was being fed. He simply was not around her when the other guy came by and claimed her. In other words, he managed to neglected her entirely. Just like in the human world, coyote females (and males) respond to kindness, time, and attention: read Walkaboutlou's courtship story about Slim Jim and Chica.
His ex (Maam) and her new mate (Blue) retained that old far-off territory (#4) — it was at the other end of the city — whereas HE moved back to a previously owned territory of his (#5), following in the wake of a son, Cape, who could not stay in that territory with Blue's takeover. Cape had remained with his parents ever since his birth and over the previous two years, and now he was displaced from that territorial home (#4). He returned to the only other home he had ever known, and Monte followed several weeks later. At about the same time that they moved back, a 9-month old dispersing female, Vida, from another family joined them on that previously owned territory (#5) — this happened almost exactly a year ago. The threesome formed their own unique "family" and they all could be seen chasing and playing with each other happily and regularly, hunting, trekking together, and howling at the sirens and sometimes at dogs that upset them. This family continued this way on this territory for about eight months.
Some photos of him and his family in his previous life in 2020
And here, human feeding popped up again as a driving factor in this story. There was a hand-feeder who actually interacted regularly with this coyote on this territory #5. Our coyote, Monte, had learned to wait for and expect food from this person as part of his daily routine, as he had in his previous territory, but in this case, over several years and even before Monte left for territory #5, there had developed an eye-popping bond between feeder and coyote which I have never witnessed before, and I'll be writing about it in another posting soon. I've already written profusely about the detrimental effects of feeding coyotes, and this coyote was a victim of that. See: Abused, and the linked articles therein.
As fate would have it, in October, that prolific hand-feeder died of cancer, and right after her ashes were spread (as she had requested), interestingly, Monte left. I don't think he left solely because the feeder was gone, but I think the feeder's disappearance was a major factor. It was also time to start looking for a mate: he had been without one for 8 months. Upon his departure, the territory he had returned to and was living on with Vida and Cape reverted to — or was ceded to — those two younger coyotes: his son and also to the little female who had joined them.
And so our fellow Monte moved on to a new park where he wandered for awhile as an interloper until he found a niche and settled down there. He has lived here now for the past three months, with . . . his new girl!! He had fallen off of my radar for a couple of months, so you can imagine my thrill when I finally found him with the help of some photos and sightings from other people. I'm sure only Monte and I carry his fascinating and convoluted story with us as a first-hand memory. To everyone else who doesn't know him, he's just another coyote, unless you've read about him here on my blog.
Here he is with his new mate, and as you can see in the lower photo, he (and she) are very interested in all those hormones which are soaring right now: he sniffs and licks, and she's happy to let him do so. Mating season is about to begin, so I guess he'll have another family.
Note that my work is accomplished visually and without the use of tags or radio-collars. I identify each coyote by their unique faces. I use DNA analysis from scat (which will be analyzed by Monica Serrano at Dr. Benjamin Sacks' lab at UC Davis) to confirm what I see. Although I haven't been able to pick up Monte's scat from every location, I have collected enough in most places, and then photos elsewhere, as hard-evidence of what I've found. See my most recent presentation.
Mom Tells Off Her Son, and Dad Stands By
16 Jan 2021 10 Comments
by yipps:janetkessler in communication, coyote behavior, families, family interactions, feelings & emotions, mother coyote behavior, mother/pup learning
Mom angrily forces son down and kicks dirt angrily
She adds snarls and growls for emphasis
Dad comes over to support her — or maybe just to see what's happening
The family was out together, all four of them: Mom, Dad, Daughter and her brother. It's not often that we see the young daughter: she's just not comfortable at this point being out when people look at her. The minute she feels noticed, she hurries off and disappears into the surrounding foliage.
Her brother also dislikes being watched. This makes a lot of sense: in the wild, if any animal looks at another animal, it's probably a predator sizing it up as prey. But brother has become more tolerant of humans eyeing him than his sister. He might leave an area if he feels the focus is on him, but he inevitably returns to the same spot, especially if his parents are out there.
So after Sis left today, only Mom and Dad and Son were out. They wandered around a little, and then Dad moved further away from the others. Suddenly Mom was beating up Son: he was on his back and she was standing over him with teeth bared. Yikes! She seems to have a short temper recently. She got annoyed at Dad recently while I was watching: I think simply because he bumped into her, maybe brushed against her or stepped on her heels. She not only snarled at him, but she then acted on her "words" and let him know who was boss by raising herself above him: it was an instance of interpersonal coyote communication and interactions showing HER emotional response to him, and HIS tolerance and total deference to her.
The tongue lashing continues
Might getting more physical help this lesson stick?
And here's a bite for emphasis
What happened with the youngster today? I didn't see it, it happened very quickly, but probably the same thing. I've seen dogs get pretty upset when they've been bumped — nothing else but a clumsy bump — by another dog, and maybe something like this happened today. It's probably disrespectful. Anyway, here are the photos of Mom letting little guy have it with snarls and growls. Dad soon arrived and seemed to take sides with Mom. He may have had to — if you know what I mean. In fact, Mom in this family is the "top dog".
Mom, with Dad standing by her side, makes sure son got the message.
Mom and Dad leave as son watches them go
Eventually, after making sure Son got the message, the two parents walked off. And the little guy stayed behind. He looked dumbfounded, like he had no clue why that had been so intense: "What did I do?" But he knew he was not invited to follow his parents. Parents proceeded to walk around the periphery of their park together, and Son stayed right where he was, searching for gophers, alone.
Maybe this was just a temper-tantrum on Mom's part — maybe she just wanted a little more respect from him? Then again, maybe she's setting the stage for dispersal. The earliest dispersal I've seen occurred when a pup was nine-months old, which is what this pup is now. We'll have to see what happens next..
Mom and Dad walk off in a huff
Mom looks back to ensure son isn't coming with them
Son, baffled, looks on
All About Coyote Pups: A Primer


What does the librarian at the Library of Congress in Washington, D.C. have in common with my dad?
It wouldn't seem like much.
Carla Hayden was sworn in as the 14th librarian of the Library of Congress in September, 2016. She is the first woman to hold the job, as well as the first African American. After earning her graduate degrees from the University of Chicago, Hayden was a children's librarian early in her career, then a librarian for the Museum of Science and Industry in Chicago and later the chief librarian for Chicago Public Library and the Baltimore library.
My dad, on the other hand, was just my dad. Hard worker, chemical engineer and economist. Taught me how to bunt and get a good lead before I stole second base. Great dad, but what does he have in common with this librarian?
Carla Hayden and the late Henry Wallace have one very important thing in common: A fierce belief that knowledge from a public library can provide its citizens better information, teach them to find accurate information and give those library users a hand up to a better life.
"There is plenty of information out there, you have to be smart enough to know which information will help you the most," my dad taught me about investing. This was long before "Fake News," but I think dad knew fake, misguided or "out-of-your-ever-lovin'-mind" crazy news when he saw it.
It's not like fake news was invented yesterday, dad would probably tell us today.
Yep, that's what dad pounded into me. "Get the right data in order to make an informed decision," he would say. Dad would have despised Wikkipedia.
Every Tuesday evening as a kid, I knew what was on the schedule: Finish dinner, gather up the books and head downtown to the library. We spent a couple of hours looking for books we liked to read as well as dad teaching us how to use the library and find accurate information.
"You have to be able to know the difference between good information and good information that can help you," Dad once said.
It's through the library – with online or at a brick building location – you can get the best information available on topics ranging from real estate to auto repair to cooking and thousands of other topics.
The public library provides an essential freedom we should recognized this July 4th – access to quality information.


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