Randi Minetor

Just fall on the ground and cover your head and hope that the bear just ignores you and goes away.

Well, that's exactly.

But you're not going to fight the bear off.

You're not going to scare it.

The bear knows it's way bigger than you.

No, coyotes don't naturally attack human beings or eat human beings.

It's not a thing they do.

So if a coyote is coming into your yard or onto your property, he's looking for food.

like leavings, you know, scraps that might be in your trash.

If a coyote chases you, it's because it feels threatened.

So it wants you, the adversary, out of its way as quickly as possible.

So coyotes know if they chase you, you're going to run, you're going to go in the house, and then they're done.

Generally, coyotes eat deer.

and other small animals, rabbits and skunks and foxes, other small things, rats, moles, things like that.

So they're not going to take on a human being for the most part, although there have been instances where they have chased children and even bitten children.

So it is something that you want to keep in mind.

They are.

Coyotes are one of the few animals that has really thrived since, you know, there was a point a hundred or so years ago when agriculture moved in everywhere and coyotes and bears and not so much bears, but mountain lions and bobcats were everywhere.

picking up farmers' chickens or their lambs or whatever the small animal was and grabbing those for their own meal.

So a bounty was sworn out