Stinger
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Post by Stinger on Dec 8, 2004 22:54:10 GMT -5
That is a good answer too Kit! I know my cousin lost some chickens to a pack of coyotes...one would come onto the block walled in yard and chase the chickens over the fence to where the pack was waiting. I know that is not the exact same thing but I thought maybe it showed how resouceful coyotes are, teaches my cousin not to leave the front gate open to her property...though most coyotes could probably fit right through the bars!
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Post by Whiskey Jack on Dec 9, 2004 10:36:26 GMT -5
Man, you guys are both right! Coyotes have been shown to use canyons to throw their calls around and confuse prey. There is some old folklore out there (that a lot of people still believe today), and that is that a coyotes voice can not echo if it wants it to. And Kit, they defenitly use "pack" mentality to trick prey too, by ways like Stinger said, and it has been observed that they do what you suggested too. One of the best tricks I know of is that they actually dig a small hole in the earth, just big enough for thier head to stick in, and then they howl/bark etc. into the hole. This muffled sound makes it appear as though they are far away, when in all actuality, they are doing the howling right next to a rabbit burrow. Some hunters have confessed to being thrown off too by this trick, and the coyote will lead them away from a den by muffling its howl and sounding distant. And Stinger, you nailed the baby squirrel one too! The birds I know that can mimic the sound of a mother squirrel are Blue Jays back East and Steller's Jays here in the West. I have seen Steller's Jays mimic a Red-tailed Hawk scream around a bird feeder too, and man, you should see all the little birds take off as soon as they hear that! Then the Jay gets to eat all the food at its leisure. On a quick side note, I was hiking around Bryce Canyon (Utah) once with Sparrowhawk and a couple of friends and we started to hear this telephone ringing way out in the middle of nowhere. By the time we got to where it was coming from we saw that it was actually a Steller's Jay doing it, and it sounded exactly like a phone. Damn backpackers hiking around with their cell phones are teaching them something new!!
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Post by eaglewoman on Dec 10, 2004 9:37:02 GMT -5
Hey Crow, You're totally right. Those Steller's Jays can mimic anything. This whole last summer, they kept tricking me into thinking they were Black Hawks. Pretty clever those little guys. Eagle
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Post by Whiskey Jack on Dec 22, 2004 20:35:27 GMT -5
Yep, the tricksters of the sky, I love those Steller's Jays.
O.K.......so, here is a question: You find a Prairie Dog town with many, many holes, but it appears that there hasn't been any use of the area for a while. Finnaly you see where 3 large holes have been dug right on the outskirts of the Pariaire Dog town. They are about 15cm across and 12cm high, shaped like an oval. Well...that explains why no activity is here. Who made the large holes?
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Kitfox
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Post by Kitfox on Feb 2, 2005 18:37:27 GMT -5
I'm gonna have to go with Black Footed Ferret on this one. The sneaky little guys love to eat those prarie dogs. =)
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Kitfox
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Post by Kitfox on Feb 2, 2005 18:40:00 GMT -5
Actually I retract my answer. Ferrets don't dig holes (duh!). I suppose it could be a badger. o.o Seems kinda small for a badger hole, but maybe not...
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Post by Whiskey Jack on Feb 3, 2005 13:52:49 GMT -5
Yes! A Badger is what I was going for.....here in Arizona anyway. They can squeeze in to some pretty tight holes. In fact, I don't know if I mentioned this before but one time when I was rafting down the Green River in Utah, I stopped and hiked up Poverty Canyon for a bit. As I was tromping through the tamarisk I accidentally cornored a badger up against the canyon wall. He huffed and puffed and grew right before my eyes to a size that was very formidable. So apparantly not only can they shrink a little, but they can give the illusion that they are huge as well.
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Post by Whiskey Jack on Feb 15, 2005 11:12:19 GMT -5
Q: How may Wildlife Biologists does it take to change a lightbulb?
I don't really know the answer to this, I just figured we could make some up. I came up with:
A: It depends on how much tranquilizer we need to shoot the lightbulb with.
Lame, I know, but maybe someone else can think of a funnier answer.
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Post by Sparrowhawk on Feb 15, 2005 11:19:16 GMT -5
Q: How may Wildlife Biologists does it take to change a lightbulb? None. Because we probably don't have the proper permit for handling lightbulbs.
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Post by Whiskey Jack on Feb 18, 2005 11:06:32 GMT -5
Sparrowhawk, that is a good one! I'll be laughing at that one all day.
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Post by Whiskey Jack on Apr 20, 2005 12:36:23 GMT -5
Allright, so here is a deep thought question, that as far as I know, doesn't really have an exact answer as of yet. If a Turkey Vulture's head is bald for hygenie purposes (if I were to stick my head in rotting carcasses all day I would want to be bald to!) then why is it that the Bald Eagle, who eats a very similar diet to the Turkey Vulture (carrion and what not) has a magnificent white head full of feathers? It would be very dangerous because maggots, mites and other nasty bugs would get in the feathers as soon as it stuck its head in the carcass, so why do you think this is?
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Post by Whiskey Jack on Apr 20, 2005 12:46:23 GMT -5
And just in case the one above is too open ended of a question, here is a multiple choice one:
What species are Turkey Vultures most closely related to?:
A. Sparrows B. Hawks C. Eagles D. Storks E. Tukeys F. Chromius (when he is awake)
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