Thursday, March 29, 1979
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University Daily Kansan
Covotes fill research role
BY BARBARA JENSEN Staff Reporter
Staff Reporter
On warm days last summer, Juli Arm-
strong took three energetic coyote pumps into a wooded area near campus and turned the pumps around so that he could boulder and dose for several hours.
Although she maintains that the coyotes were not her pets, Wanda Niema and a boy came to the booth where the woke. And, if Yanni were lost in the woods, she would be terrified and howl until she woke.
Armstrong, Overland Park senior, is doing research at KU's Animal Care Unit. She obtained the three salt-and-pepper colored pups last summer.
"I spent 24 hours a day with them the first two weeks I had them," she said. "The cement floor got pretty hard to sleep on, but I managed to keep me calm and would respond to my whining."
In her research Armstrong sought to find out what foods coyotes prefer. She said her research showed that they preferred rabbits and rodents.
ARMSTRONG SAID little research had been done on the coyote, a member of the den's troop. The study found that
She also said some research had shown that they pretain tainted meat to fresh meat.
"Most of the research that's been done on food preference has involved taking the time to carefully observe
"Often an animal is diseased, weak or already dead when a coyote eats it," she said.
Armstrong, who received a $100 undergraduate research grant last summer, is
She said that although all laboratory animals had to be trained, she didn't want them to die.
"SO I NAMED them Wanca, Noapa and Yamani, Dakota Sioux for one, twa and three," she said. "The Indians and coyotes are both natives of North America."
When the pups were two months old, she said, they went through a series of vicious injuries.
Coyotes can be found in every state. They weigh from 30 to 40 pounds when full grown.
A social hierarchy is always established in a group of coyotes, Armstrong said.
"Yammi, who was the largest and most curious, was the dominant one," she said. "Nompa was second and Wanca, who has only three legs, was third."
Wanca lost a leg when she was attacked by a female adult coyote.
"BUT WHEN they were eight months
in the nursery, arranged places in
the nursery," Arnott told me.
Armstrong said the dominant member enjoyed being chased and would often try to
"They chase each other until the one who is caught rolls over on her back and screams," she said. "They have different sound of that are social communications."
She said a coyote call is sometimes used by hunters to lure coyotes.
"The sport has become the American alternative to a fox hunt," Armstrong said. "Coyotes are used in field hunt trials to judge how well dogs hunt."
Hunters sometimes chase coyotes in jeeps until the animals wear out, and then they return to their burrow.
"Same hunters use CBs and others dig pup outs of den," she said.
Kansas has an open season on coyotes, except during the one week when riffle hunting for deer is allowed. A coyote pelt may be worth $40 to $60, she said.
*1* THINK coyotes are used as food.
*2* Some coyotes are sometimes mistaken for coyotes. But if sheep and cattle are grazing on open range, you can't expect them to be immune from predators.
Armstrong said she would also to do research to determine whether coyotes have
She said that although dogs were color blind, coyotes' eyes had rods and cones, which could allow them to differentiate between colors.
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Cou couotes
Spending another afternoon exercising her coyotes, Jujil armstrong offers YamiM a milk bong while Wanza wafts for another.
Staff photo by CHRIS TODD
Loud noises and strange people frighten the them to approach even Armstrong with caution each time they approach.
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