The Wild Canids: Their Systematics, Behavioral Ecology and Evolution
(first published 1975; reprinted in 2009)
Edited by Michael W. Fox
Edited by Dr. Michael W. Fox, former Project Coyote Advisory Board member and one of the premier researchers in the field, The Wild Canids includes 30 scholarly studies in the field of wild canid ethology.
First published in 1975, our knowledge of the behavior and evolution of wolves, foxes, coyotes, and Canis familiaris—the domestic dog—was extremely limited until the publication this acclaimed volume, which represented a major step forward in understanding these fascinating animals. It also laid out a number of areas of inquiry that stimulated further study.
In the nearly 35 years since its publication, The Wild Canids has been a valuable resource for conservationists in protecting and re-introducing canids into the wild and in familiarizing dog trainers and behaviorists with the science of canine behavior.
Today’s readers now have the opportunity to delve into the original research by such pioneers in the field as Bekoff, Belyaev, Zimen and many more.
Jacket blurb written by Project Coyote Advisory Board member Marc Bekoff: “The Wild Canids is an excellent source for anyone who wants to know about the behavior, ecology, and conservation of these amazing animals. Much of the information is as important as it was when the book was first published.”
~Marc Bekoff, University of Colorado; author of numerous books including The Emotional Lives of Animals, Wild Justice: The Moral Lives of Animals, and Encyclopedia of Animal Behavior
Coyotes in Our Midst: Coexisting with an Adaptable and Resilient Carnivore
By Project Coyote founding Executive Director Camilla H Fox and Christopher Papouchis
Coyotes in Our Midst: Coexisting with an Adaptable and Resilient Carnivore discusses the wide array of practical and proven humane and ecologically sound techniques available to ranchers and suburbanites for coexisting with coyotes — from livestock guard dogs, shepherds, and state of the art fencing, to propane exploders, noise makers, and “Coyote Rollers”. References and links are provided to enable individuals, communities, municipalities and others involved in coyote conflict abatement programs to obtain additional resources for reducing coyote conflicts. Topics covered in Coyotes in Our Midst:
- Coyote demographics and ecology
- The role of coyotes in ecosystems
- Background history on predator management in the U.S.
- The biological and ecological impacts of lethal coyote control
- The value of community-based conservation approaches
- Urban/suburban conflicts between coyotes and people
- Methods and techniques for reducing conflicts both in rural and urban ecosystems
- State-by-state information about laws regarding coyotes ~ classification and management
- Case studies and prototype models
Coyotes in Our Midst is intended to help communities, agencies, public officials and concerned individuals resolve such conflicts with the many scientifically proven, practical management techniques available for coexisting with coyotes. Download a free PDF copy of this publication. (© Born Free USA united with Animal Protection Institute).
Edited by Camilla H. Fox and Christopher M. Papouchis
Co-edited by, Camilla Fox, Project Coyote Founding Director, CULL OF THE WILD: A Contemporary Analysis of Trapping in the United States, is considered a key reference and primer on the history and current status of trapping in the U.S. and includes detailed information about trapping devices, practices, regulations, policy reform efforts, as well as statistics on the species and numbers of animals captured in each state. To download a free copy, click here.
What others have to say about CULL of the WILD:
“At last a book that thoughtfully and thoroughly documents the history behind the arcane and inhumane practice of fur trapping. CULL of the WILD is a very timely contribution that I believe will serve to educate the public on this particular injustice inflicted upon wildlife and help bring an end to this barbaric practice.”
~U.S. Representative Sam Farr (D-CA)
“CULL of the WILD provides important thought and heart provoking information to a world that must now act. Animals and the future are relying upon our passion, compassion, and commitment to end this senseless, destructive history.”
~Julia Butterfly Hill, Author, Legacy of Luna, & founder of the Circle of Life Foundation
“CULL of the WILD is a well researched, thoughtful, comprehensive guide for concerned citizens and activists alike. If you haven’t been moved to action before reading this book, you will be by the time you are done.”
~U.S. Representative Peter DeFazio (D-OR) .
Edited by, Marco Musiani, Luigi Boitani and Paul Paquet
A New Era for Wolves and People analyzes the crucial relationship between human ethics, attitudes, and policy and the management of wolf populations in Europe and North America. The contributors assert that these human dimensions affect wolf survival just as much, if not more, than the physical environment. Contributors include recognized scientists and other wolf experts who introduce new and sometimes controversial findings.
This book features a co-authored introduction by Project Coyote Advisory Board member Paul Paquet who is also a co-editor of the book, and a chapter titled Ethical Reflections on Wolf Recovery and Conservation: A Practical Approach for Making Room for Wolves by Camilla Fox and Project Coyote Advisory Board member Marc Bekoff. To download and read a copy of this chapter, click here. More information.
By Marc Bekoff
This classic of the canid literature, originally published in 1978 and reprinted in 2001 by Blackburn Press, pulls together much disparate research in coyote evolution, taxonomy, reproduction, communication, behavioral development, population dynamics, ethology and ecological studies in the Southwest, Minnesota, Iowa, New England and Wyoming as well as studies on livestock damage and research on other canids.
By Marc Bekoff
For far too long humans have been ignoring nature. As the most dominant, overproducing, overconsuming, big-brained, big-footed, arrogant, and invasive species ever known, we are wrecking the planet at an unprecedented rate. And while science is important to our understanding of the impact we have on our environment, it alone does not hold the answers to the current crisis, nor does it get people to act. In Ignoring Nature No More, Marc Bekoff and a host of renowned contributors argue that we need a new mind-set about nature, one that centers on empathy, compassion, and being proactive. Find out more here.
Coyote America: A Natural and Supernatural History
By Dan Flores
With its uncanny night howls, unrivaled ingenuity, and amazing resilience, the coyote is the stuff of legends. In Indian folktales, it often appears as a deceptive trickster or a sly genius. But legends don’t come close to capturing the incredible survival story of the coyote. As soon as Americans—especially white Americans—began ranching and herding in the West, they began working to destroy the coyote. Despite campaigns of annihilation employing poisons, gases, helicopters, and engineered epidemics, coyotes didn’t just survive, they thrived, expanding across the continent from Anchorage, Alaska, to New York’s Central Park. In the war between humans and coyotes, coyotes have won hands-down.
By Barbara J. Moritsch
With Wolf Time, author and wildlife biologist Barbara Moritsch offers the reader an intimate view into the world of Canis Lupus, weaving together fact and fiction and intertwining both with a bit of wild fantasy. This captivating novel transports, edifies and humbles us.
Moritsch speaks effectively and believably from the wolves’ point of view, and does so with skill, grace and scientific accuracy. The reader experiences the barbarity humans have wielded against wolves since European settlers stepped foot on this continent. We feel the agony and suffering caused by snares, leghold traps and poison baits, and understand deeply the tragedy of the orphaned young left behind in their deadly wake. But we also rejoice in the beauty, intelligence and resilience of this iconic species as they navigate their existence in humanized landscapes. The release of Wolf Time comes at a poignant period in our history as the US federal government deliberates removing federal protections for gray wolves in the lower 48 states. This book should be read and shared widely.
By Christy Burbidge
Claire’s Coyote Friends is a beautifully illustrated children’s story that takes a look at living with coyotes in urban areas through the eyes of a child. Full of good information on living with coyotes, this book is a thoughtful introduction for young readers who have questions about the wildlife around us and how to coexist with all creatures.
~Erin Hauge, Project Coyote Program Associate
by Hope Ryden
For two years naturalist/photographer Hope Ryden camped in remote areas of the West observing and photographing coyotes. With eloquence and clarity, she describes the private life of this much-maligned animal in a book that has been heralded as the classic treatise on the subject. While observing her controversial subjects, Hope endured hardships and peril, events she weaves into her beautiful story.
Where the Wild Things Were: Life, Death, and Ecological Wreckage in a Land of Vanishing Predators
By William Stolzenburg
Wildlife journalist William Stolzenburg follows in the wake of nature’s topmost carnivores and finds chaos in their absence. His startling tour through the bizarre, impoverished landscapes of pest and plague provides a world of reason to think again about meat-eating beasts so recently missing from the web of life. Includes a new afterword by the author.
“Big, fierce animals have a noble champion in William Stolzenburg.” ~ Edward O. Wilson, Professor Emeritus, Harvard University
By Dr. Jonathan Way (with foreword by Project Coyote Advisory Board member, Dr. Marc Bekoff)
“Here is a fabulous journey into the life of the eastern Coyote in the northeastern United States. If you’ve ever wanted to know these canine inhabitants of wild lands and rural and suburban zones better, this book is for you. Author Jonathan Way started studying coyotes when he was in high school.
Suburban Howls encompasses his life and studies beginning then, and continuing through his university years to the present. He is a scientist who loves his subject, loves the very beings of his subject. The book will be of interest to students of wildlife biology, wildlife management, and of human wild life interactions and ethics.
It is definitely readable for a general audience with an appreciation for adventure and a curiosity for wildlife. If you know someone (cat owner or otherwise) who could benefit from feeling more at home with their neighboring Coyotes, you might sneak this book onto their coffee table.”
~ from review of Suburban Howls by Bev McBride in Canadian Field Naturalist
His plan was to stay in Iowa, maybe get a job counting ducks, or do a little farming. But events conspired to fling Carter Niemeyer westward and straight into the jaws of wolves. From his early years wrangling ornery federal trappers, eagles and grizzlies, to winning a skinning contest that paved the way for wolf reintroduction in the Northern Rockies, Carter Niemeyer reveals the wild and bumpy ride that turned a trapper – a killer – into a champion of wolves.
By Marc Bekoff and Jessica Pierce
Scientists have long counseled against interpreting animal behavior in terms of human emotions, warning that such anthropomorphizing limits our ability to understand animals as they really are.
Marrying years of behavioral and cognitive research with compelling and moving anecdotes, Marc Bekoff and Jessica Pierce reveal that animals exhibit a broad repertoire of moral behaviors, including fairness, empathy, trust, and reciprocity. Underlying these behaviors is a complex and nuanced range of emotions, backed by a high degree of intelligence and surprising behavioral flexibility.
Animals, in short, including coyotes, are incredibly adept social beings, relying on rules of conduct to navigate intricate social networks that are essential to their survival. Ultimately, Bekoff and Pierce draw the astonishing conclusion that there is no moral gap between humans and other species: morality is an evolved trait that we unquestionably share with other social mammals. More information.
By Robin Lamont
On a rare vacation out west, animal rights investigator Jude Brannock fulfills a lifelong dream of seeing wolves in the wild. The wonder of the moment is shattered when she learns that a wildlife trapper has been murdered and the main suspect is an ALF member and a man she once loved. Jude’s search for the real killer takes her undercover where she collides with a government agency that is methodically destroying the wildlife she is determined to protect.
by Beth Pratt-Bergstrom; Foreword by Collin O’Mara
“Full of essential wisdom” — Lyanda Lynn Haupt
Wildness beats in the heart of California’s urban areas. In Los Angeles, residents are rallying to build one of the largest wildlife crossings in the world because of the plight of one lonely mountain lion named P-22. Porpoises cavort in San Francisco Bay again because of a grassroots effort to clean up a waterway that was once a toxic mess.
By William Stolzenburg
Late one June night in 2011, a large animal collided with an SUV cruising down a Connecticut parkway. The creature appeared as something out of New England’s forgotten past. Beside the road lay a 140-pound mountain lion.
Speculations ran wild, the wildest of which figured him a ghostly survivor from a bygone century when lions last roamed the eastern United States. But a more fantastic scenario of facts soon unfolded. The lion was three years old, with a DNA trail embarking from the Black Hills of South Dakota on a cross-country odyssey eventually passing within thirty miles of New York City. It was the farthest landbound trek ever recorded for a wild animal in America, by a barely weaned teenager venturing solo through hostile terrain.
By Barbara Kingsolver, Lily Kingsolver, Paul Mirocha (illustrator)
Pulitzer winner Barbara Kingsolver and environmental educator Lily Kingsolver’s first children’s book, Coyote’s Wild Home.
When humans occupy wild land, wild animals are forced out of their wilderness habitats and have no choice but to move into suburbs and cities, which can be frightening to many people.
Recently, the sight of coyotes in neighborhood parks and streets has thrust these animals into the spotlight, but these incidents are reminders of the urgent need to protect wilderness for future generations. COYOTE’S WILD HOME offers readers insight into these fascinating animals and how to safely coexist with them.
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Author: Michael W. Fox
Publisher: Krieger Publishing Co., Melbourne, Florida
Year: 1984 (reprint edition)
Editors: D.W. MacDonald and C. Sillero-Zubiri
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Year: 2004
Author: Michael W. Fox
Publisher: State University of New York Press, Albany, New York
Year: 2001
Editors: John L. Gittleman, Stephen M. Funk, David MacDonald and Robert K. Wayne
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Year: 2001
Author: Michael W. Fox
Publisher: Krieger Publishing Co., Melbourne, Florida
Year: 1998 (second edition)
Author: Gerald McDermott
Publisher: Harcourt, Brace and Company, New York
Year: 1994
Author: Dan Flores
Publisher: Basic Books, New York
Year: 2016
Author: Stephen DeStefano
Publisher: Harvard University Press, Boston
Year: 2011
Editor: Bekoff, M. (ed.)
Publisher: Academic Press, New York.
Year: 1978
Year: 1990 (reprinted)
Publisher: Blackburn Press, West Caldwell, New Jersey
Year: 2001 (reprinted)
Editors: Camilla H. Fox and Christopher M. Papouchis
Publisher: Animal Protection Institute, Sacramento, California
Year: 2005
Editors: Camilla H. Fox and Christopher M. Papouchis
Publisher: Animal Protection Institute, Sacramento, California
Year: 2004
Author: Gerry R. Parker
Publisher: Nimbus Publishing, Halifax, Nova Scotia
Year: 1995
Author: Barry Lopez
Publisher: Avon Books, New York
Year: 1981
Author: Hope Ryden (foreword by Dr. Michael W. Fox)
Publisher: Coward, McCann & Geoghegan, New York
Year: 1975
Author: William Stolzenburg
Publisher: Bloomsbury, USA
Year: 2016
Author: Cheryl Blackford
Publisher: Minnesota Historical Society Press, Minnesota
Year: 2015
Editor: Marc Bekoff
Publisher: University Of Chicago Press, Chicago
Year: 2013
Author: Stuart R. Ellins
Publisher: University of Texas Press, Austin
Year: 2005
Author: Gretchen Will Mayo
Publisher: Walker and Company, New York
Year: 1993
Editors: Robert A. Long, Paula MacKay, Justina Ray, William Zielinski
Publisher: Island Press, Washington, D.C.
Year: 2008
Editors: Nina Fascione, Aimee Delach and Martin E. Smith
Publisher: Island Press, Washington, D.C.
Year: 2004
Author: Michael J. Robinson
Publisher: University Press of Colorado
Year: 2005
Author: Jonathan G. Way (Foreword by Marc Bekoff)
Publisher: Dog Ear Publishing, Indianapolis, Indiana
Year: 2007
Author: Michael W. Fox
Publisher: Coward, McCann & Geoghegan, New York
Year: 1974
Author: Francois Leydet
Publisher: University of Oklahoma Press
Year: 1977
Author: Robin Lamont
Publisher: Grayling Press, USA
Year: 2015
Author: Beth Pratt-Bergstrom
Publisher: Heyday, USA
Year: 2016
Author: Michael W. Fox
Publisher: Coward, McCann & Geoghegan, New York
Year: 1979
Author: Michael W. Fox
Publisher: Van Nostrand Reinhold, New York
Year: 1974 (first edition)
Publisher: Krieger Publishing Co., Melbourne, Florida
Year: 1983 (reprint edition)
Authors: Marc Bekoff and Jessica Pierce
Publisher: The University of Chicago Press
Year: 2009
Wild Neighbors: The Humane Approach to Living with Wildlife
Authors: John Hadidian, Margaret Baird, Maggie Brasted, Lauren Nolfo-Clements, Dave Pauli, and Laura Simon
Publisher: Humane Society Press, Washington, D.C.
Year: 2007
Authors: John Harrison & Kim Nagy
Publisher: Ziggy Owl Press, USA
Year: 2019