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Photo by Shreve Stockton
A new book by Shreve Stockton, "The Daily Coyote," chronicles her adventures raising an orphaned coyote pup - a gift from her boyfriend. (I'd prefer flowers, but no one asked me, did they?)
Stockton, a photographer, culled her tome's text from her photoblog, dailycoyote.net. There, she describes daily living with a wild creature, a cat and a new puppy.
Personally I couldn't foster a creature that considers my two cats an entree. That's just bad manners. But in relation to the behavior of other creatures, coyotes are pussycats.
Here are other miscreant critters courtesy of MSN Encarta:
Ring-tailed lemur. Found on the island of Madagascar, these creatures respond to threatening rivals by rubbing their trademark black-and-white tails on glands under their arms and then flicking stink bombs of body odor toward their opponents.
Llamas. These guys really know how to throw down, ramming each other with their chests, neck wrestling, kicking, and - the pièce de résistance - spitting. A dominant male will spend hours spitting to defend his herd and chase away unwelcomed advances.
Tasmanian devil. This beastly marsupial mainly lives a solitary life in the Australian forest, primarily because it can't even get along with its own kind. In fact, the Tasmanian devil comes out of its mother's pouch throwing a fit, bearing the third-most powerful bite in the entire animal kingdom. By the time they hit two months, they start ganging up on their own mother.
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