There was a time in my tiny sliver of southeast Colorado when coyotes came running to any death cry I sent into the air. Why? The population was healthy and, most importantly, human pressure was nil.

Nine orphaned coyote pups learned how to be wild thanks to the special efforts of wildlife specialists raising them at a California wildlife rehab center. Screengrab of San Diego Humane Society's ...

The sage brush was thick and about waist high in this Wyoming draw. In a barren landscape, seemingly flat as a tabletop, any break in that terrain, no matter how slight, could be a daytime loafing ...

SAN DIEGO (FOX 5/KUSI) — An afternoon hike in the Anza-Borrego Desert State Park turned eerie for a group of evolutionary biologists a few weeks ago. John Powers and a group of his colleagues from UC ...

The sound did not belong. It was high-pitched and keening, something from a prairie night or a Hollywood sound-effects reel. Something one should not hear while sleeping in a bed, in a house, in Chevy ...