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Coyote America

Disciplines:
history
ecology
america/american west
ecology/wildlife

Summary

Dan Flores's 2016 natural and cultural history of the coyote — tracing 5 million years of evolution and the coyote's survival of systematic government extermination campaigns — the best popular account of any North American predator.

Core Contribution

Creates the coyote as a symbol of evolutionary resilience — Coyote America demonstrates that the U.S. government killed 6.5 million coyotes in the 20th century and the coyote population tripled in response; the book makes the coyote's adaptability to persecution a model for understanding evolutionary response to selection pressure.

Historical Influences

Barry Lopez Aldo Leopold

Intellectual Lineage

Dan Flores Basic Books

Allied Works

American Serengeti Of Wolves and Men

Contemporaries & Peers

No recorded contemporaries.

Minds Influenced

American West natural history writing

Intellectual Posterity

Coyote America Coyote as resilience symbol

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