Coyotes!

Varmints! podcast is thrilled to welcome back this week our very first guest, Dr. Seth Magle to chat with us about coyotes! Dr. Seth is both extremely knowledgeable and just plain fun, and we know you’ll have a great time listening to him. So, let’s all learn about coyotes!

But first, our guest!

Dr. Seth is a PhD real life Scientist doing SCIENCE as Director of the Urban Wildlife Institute at Lincoln Park Zoo in Chicago. See a list of his many fine published papers here!

Sunglasses are essential equipment for doing SCIENCE.

You can help do SCIENCE! Check out Chicago Wildlife Watch, learn to identify critters, (it’s easy!) and be part of a really cool thing.

Those are two coyotes (image from Chicago Wildlife Watch website). Look! You’re doing SCIENCE!

Translating the Song Dog: What Coyotes are Saying when they Howl

Wile E. Coyote and the Road Runner. Video courtesy of YouTube user India

Check out Manuel Cinema’s amazing film about an urban coyote living in Chicago.
Video courtesy of Manuel Cinema’s Chicagoland website.

Coyotes are so cosmopolitan, next they’ll be drinking them.

Coyote Legends with Lawrence Aripa

This and many other tales about Coyote can be found at Native Languages of the Americas’ website. Prepare to be fascinated for hours!

Want to know more about these adorable city tricksters? Here are 10 Fascinating Facts about Urban Coyotes!

Looking both ways before crossing the street? We has the smarts for that.

Your feedback is always welcome!

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And a very special welcome to the more than 1,200 of you that gave us a like on our Facebook page. Holy cow! Thank you! We hope you like what you hear and we look forward to hearing from you soon!

All music is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution license (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) Artist: Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)

Featured Image Urban Coyotes was provided by Dru Bloomfieldand is licensed under Creative Commons (CC BY 2.0)

All other images on the page are featured on the linked websites.

About our voice actors:

Kari McGinnis runs Blazing Caribou Studios and is a co-host on the podcasts Feast On History and Trivia Geeks Live.

Chris Braaten runs the Podfix Network and is a co-host on More Gooder Than.

Chris “Toph” Green is the host of the GravityBeard podcast.

Curtis Craddock is the author of the novel An Alchemy of Masques and Mirrors (The Risen Kingdoms, #1)

Josh Hallmark runs the Our Americana network and hosts the podcasts Our Americana, The Karen and Ellen Letters, Playlist and True Crime Bullshit.

Justine and Santiago are the hosts of the very funny Weird With You podcast.

Frosty is the co-host of The Show with The Preshaah and Frosty,

and last but never least, Stacey from Rough Giraffe.