Saturday, November 23, 2019

The Coyote's Howl

The prompt for this very, very short piece was to find the photo of the day for our birthday month on the National Geographic website and write about that, and I really loved the image that corresponded with mine:

The site requires you to subscribe before you can see anything, but I figure I'll save everyone the trouble so here it is. The photo is titled The Coyote's Howl and is credited to Glenn M.

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Before I actually started writing on this I did some quick Googling and learned that coyotes can be either social or solitary animals and can form loose temporary packs with other unrelated coyotes as well as being part of a more basic family unit, which I found very interesting:

The coyote’s breath materialized in a puff of white mist in the morning air. As it had happened before, and as it was bound to happen again, the creature found itself alone. It would be incorrect to say that it was lonely, for it felt no urgent need for the company of his fellow wolves from winters past. He would eventually find a new pack, as he always did. And so, at present, he felt content to lay still in the morning light.

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