• @Jackcooper
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    1611 months ago

    How do coyotes take down a moose? Even if there’s 5 of them??

    • @[email protected]
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      2011 months ago

      Probably similar to wolves, run it down till its too tired to fight, bite the legs till it can’t support its own weight and them go for the throat.

      • roguetrick
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        1011 months ago

        It’s how they do with deer, I’m sure it would work on a moose. Bite and run bite and run.

      • @[email protected]
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        611 months ago

        Sometimes true, but not in this case.

        Various other proposed explanations why the unusual attack occurred included that the coyotes might have been larger and bolder than normal coyotes because they were crosses with wolves or domestic dogs, rabid, starving, or protecting a carcass.None of these suggestions were subsequently borne out

        They just got tough and mean on their own.

        • @LemmyKnowsBest
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          211 months ago

          I imagine they worked hard together to incapacitate the moose then ate him alive

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    • @boatsnhos931
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      611 months ago

      How do I eat a whole rotisserie chicken by myself? When you get hangry, you find a way. Thank you Jeebus!!

    • @[email protected]
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      611 months ago

      As another poster already commented these coyotes were a much bigger breed than your typical coyote

      • @LemmyKnowsBest
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        111 months ago

        okay but surely the coyotes weren’t bigger than a moose. A moose can be bigger than a truck.

        • @Cort
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          Yeah they’re big, but they don’t turn very quickly. If the coyotes can draw blood, they’d be able to make the moose bleed out eventually.

          Also, there was an article like a decade ago about America’s coyotes and one phrase really stuck with me: canis soup. The researchers used the term to describe all the interbreeding that was occurring with coyotes, wolves, and domestic/tame dogs. I only point this out to say that the ‘coyotes’ in this story may have had some wolf or pitbull in them.

          • @LemmyKnowsBest
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            111 months ago

            Has anyone ever caught that on video?? A pitbull dog fucking a coyote? 😳

            • @tym
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              111 months ago

              No, but I got this sweet video of a coyote fucking a pit bull! /s