The Case for Urban Coyotes.

[The_jackalope]

3. My partner had an interesting encounter with an urban coyote in LA.

Late one night she was standing on a hillside in the moonlight. On the hill were a coyote and a small deer. They all saw each other and stood motionless at the points of an equilateral triangle watching each other (I assume she measured the angles with a protractor to be sure that it was an equilateral triangle. She was persnickety about such things...). After about 5 minutes the coyote blinked first and slunk off. Whereupon the deer just suddenly vanished. She swore no psychotropic substances were involved.

Until she told me, this boy from the Great White North had no idea that coyotes live in human-infested terrain like LA.