While much of the West’s big-game species are hunkered down during winter, coyotes are focused on something more important than comfort. They are now engaged in a territorial battle for the right to breed.
When the breeding season arrives, behavioral changes occur. Coyotes become more aggressive and offensive, protective and defensive, territorial and hungry. All this can give the savvy predator caller an added advantage when attempting to lure song dogs into shooting range.
BASIC BIOLOGY
Did you know that female coyotes experience estrus once per year, and are in heat for less than a week? And that male coyotes only produce sperm during the time females are receptive? When a male tries to breed a female that is not yet ready, she’ll threaten and reject him until the time
