Coyotes are actually quite good swimmers, but they’d really prefer to stay on dry land. To see a coyote swimming is actually rare encounter, but to see one cannonball off a massive cliff and splash into the water right in front of your boat? Unheard of…
Maybe it’s just a case of right place, right time, but something tells me this is a once in a lifetime experience for these fishermen.
Like wolves, although much smaller, coyotes are really just wild dogs. They are medium-sized mammals that weigh, on average, around 30 pounds. Not huge by any means, but large enough to take out a lot of other small critters, and sometimes even small pets, to find a meal. In many areas, they are a large nuisance to hunters, farmers, and homeowners and you can pretty much hunt them year around in most states. There is also no bag limit as these things reproduce quickly.
That being said, they are a beautiful animal though. A common target for fur trappers, their coats are often full and nice in color.
However, these fellas weren’t out for coyotes, they were trying to catch some fish. A group of fishermen were out on the water when they spot this lone coyote scaling up this very steep cliff face. Near the top, they lose of the little fella and assume that he safely made his way up to the top. But he didn’t…
The men are stunned as the coyote is seen tumbling near the top before pushing of the rocks of the large cliff. It pushes out just far enough to hit the water right at the cliff edge, and starts to swim away seemingly fine. Back to the drawing board…
The men laugh as the coyote now tries to find its way out of the water and back up the cliff. It’s gonna be a pretty tall order for the coyote, who basically has to find a way to scale the steep wall, and you can tell it’s a bit panicked. Not to mention, it has these bozos in a boat following it around as it tries to figure out what to do next.
A crazy scene nonetheless, you just hope the poor thing made its way back up safely.
