That dog is at least part Great Pyrenees, and those dogs were bred to protect livestock from wolves and bears. We had them growing up, my parents still keep a couple. It’s not unusual to wake up to 4-5 dead coyotes in your yard.
Is coyote meat any good?
Probably not. Most nonaquatic predators are awful tasting and very unhealthy to eat due to the buildup of heavy metals and other nasty stuff from further down the food chain.
Ah, figures. Otherwise it could be a source of free meat.
The comment is not entirely correct, it’s more if it’s a scavenging predator or live hunter. Something picky for food they have hunted themselves like a mountain lion can be amazing meat, or a bear feasted on berries or live fish. But if they’ve been scavenging like a bear with dead fish and garbage or a coyote, it can be horrible meat. Depends on species too as well as diet.
Sorry mate, but any first year biology student learns that the higher up the food chain the more concentrated the heavy metals are. Take Tuna. As free range as you can get but it is advised to minimize consumption, particularly when pregnant, due to the high mercury content.
While lifestyle does affect palatability of the meat (Bear near the dump always tastes ‘off’) it is more a question of ‘what’ is being bioaccumulated, not ‘if’. In your example scavengers are bioaccumulating pesticides and preservatives, whereas the successful predator accumulates all the heavy metals its prey, and their prey, and their prey (repeat until the bottom of the tree) consumed.
You can’t get around it. All high level predators have shitty meat, whether it tastes bad or not.
‘Erm actually’ They asked if coyote ‘the species of animal’ is good mean. ‘Good’ here meaning obviously palatability. Heavy metal accumulation can also depend on region, which wasn’t part of their question.
“All high level predators have shitty meat” My lord man, cougar meat is PRIZED, any hunting community will tell you that.
Isn’t it all in the way you cook it?
There are ways to make meat taste ‘better’ But if there is some odd flavour sitting in a meat, sometimes it’s not worth it to try and find something to cover it. Also a difference between meat texture, humans don’t tend to like gamy tough meat, usually some level of fat to it, and coyotes fighting with sheepdogs have most likely not been getting fat. I wouldn’t want to deal with coyote meat unless in a survival situation
Assuming it’s similar to dog: No, it’s quite nasty, but there’s people in Switzerland who probably consider it a delicacy.
Coyotes are actually pretty small, if it was wolves it would be a different story and if it was wolverines he’d be dead and if it was X-Men wolverine he would be Rogue’d:
Casper weighted 85 lbs. The average coyote is ±35 lbs.
Imagine fighting off 11 Baboons and killing 8 with your bare hands in a single night. Because that’s the equivalent.
arent non-human primates like insanely strong? its more like killing eight 7th graders with your bare hands
It’s easier if you don’t like sand.
Oi! Can we get an admin over here? r/PrequelMemes is leaking again!
Yeah. If we think of gorillas as the T-Rex of the primate world, then on paper baboons are pretty much the velociraptors. About half the weight of a human, really fast, and packing 6 inch canines.
so if gorillas are t-rexes and baboons are the velociraptors, what would humans be? or, say, rhesus monkeys?
I was 6’ tall in 7th grade, and no, I wasn’t held back. I’m still 6’ tall now. I didn’t do any vertical growing after the summer between 6th/7th grades.
still nowhere near strong enough to take on a fully grown adult human male im sure lol
Good question. I didn’t have occasion to test it. If we assume a good herd dog is roughly equivalent to Joe Rogan in his prime, I likely would have died though, yeah.
If we assume a good herd dog is roughly equivalent to Joe Rogan in his prime
…wait, are we rewriting Rogan into a top fighter, now? He didn’t even compete after his teenage years, did he?
Not saying I could get as close as even touching the man, to be clear, but let’s not act like he fought professionally for years
Lol, no. But Rogan in his prime is still way more capable than the average adult.
joe rogan is literally 5’3"
wtf, really? I always remember him being close in size to contestants on fear factor. Was that all trickery, or did I just never notice?
Yeah but most 11 year olds aren’t anywhere near 6’
I don’t think we he was arguing that it wasn’t impressive insomuch as the pictured animals are wolves and he absolutely would have lost that fight.
Disclaimer: I’m not actually what the one on the right is, but the one on the left is definitely a wolf.
For those wondering, Casper continued to do well, and won ‘Farm dog of the year’ in '23.
https://www.fb.org/in-the-news/usa-today-meet-casper-peoples-choice-pup-winnerIf I remember correctly, Casper went also missing for a few days - he was hunting the remaining coyotes to finish the job.
Those coyotes didn’t expect to meet the Good Boi of DeKalb, Woofer of Woe, the Hound Who Watches the Herd. Legends says no coyote can kill him and he can lift three sheep in his mouth
We’re surrounded… that simplifies things!
- Lt. General Chesty Puller
They were also inner Atlanta coyotes, they aren’t exactly the most fierce. Casper is still a badass tho
