Randall

And I think, at least in Montana, there's this... It connects us to a story that's millions of years old when you think about the Great Inland Sea.

Oh, yeah.

I mean, there's... You look at the landscape and you think to yourself, this hasn't always been this way, right?

Like, you're on a seabed.

And it sort of brings into relief...

that long history of environmental change.

I think there's a lot of ways we could start this one, but I think, cause we can take coyotes anywhere.

They go everywhere.

But, um, as you point out, this is one story in which the animals win.

Yeah.

And so if I were to unpack that a little bit, because it's a fun, it's a fun idea to play with.

Yeah, and I think another point that's stood out to me here is when you're talking about coyotes moving into South America.

Yeah.

and whenever you're reading environmental history and you're thinking about these giant large-scale movement of animals around the world you know without human help right to say you know ignoring the the old new world exchanges when you think about animals moving across the siberian land bridge or the bering land bridge uh

or you know like bison moving east and then moving back west um i often find myself thinking like wow i wonder what that would have looked like

It's almost unimaginable.

But in fact, as you point out, we're witnessing what we would think of as like this ancient sort of unimaginable phenomenon right now.

And it just looks like, you know, a coyote showing up in someone's backyard.

Yeah.

Yeah.