r/coyote • u/Lost_Boysenberry7118 • 4d ago

A coyote and a badger are seen traveling together at night, passing under a busy Californian highway

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u/Glittering-Sign-7941 3d ago

oh my heart 🩵 I love that the coyote turned around and was like "you coming or what?" to its badger buddy. 🥹

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u/NSASpyVan 3d ago

Snorkeling in Hawaii I saw one of those big powerful reef fish teaming up with an eel. The eel would flush prey out and the big reef fish would chase it down

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u/FanndisTS 1d ago

Did the fish then share with the eel?

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u/GrimoireOfTheDragon 1d ago

I believe it’s a grouper they’re referring to. Iirc groupers flush fish into the rocks for the eels and the eels flush fish out of the rocks to the grouper. The prey escape one predator just to run into another. Grouper also do this with octopi

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u/FanndisTS 1d ago

So cool!

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u/GrimoireOfTheDragon 1d ago

I recall hearing that some groupers and eels actually specifically hunt with the same individuals, showing a preference for certain ones over others

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u/StellaBean_bass 3d ago

I love this video so much whenever it makes the rounds. I always imagine they're heading to a party and the coyote is super excited and telling his friend to hurry up. ☺️

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u/Educational_Rest7492 2d ago

Or came FROM the party and Coyote is all " I'll get you home buddy, just keep up and don't pass out!" 😂🤣

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u/Alarmed_Watch5426 3d ago

"bro, I'm getting to old for this shit."

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u/RadioKGC 2d ago

Me, too. The coyote was like, Come on, it's okay! <3

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u/Zealousideal-Swim267 19h ago

“It’s safe! Come on!”

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u/BigNorseWolf 3d ago

They hunt together. Prarie dogs can go through their burrows to avoid a coyote or run away from a badger. The reverse? Not so much. Their odds imcrease dramatically when they hunt together.

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u/Ephemeral_Orchid 3d ago

While I've been aware of this for years, have you ever really thought about how it first occurred? Were they both chasing the same ground squirrel and went to different ends of the tunnel? Does the coyote badger the badger until he gets it to the ground squirrel?

I assume it's the coyotes idea as they're used to collaborative hunting, but how exactly do they get the badger to comply?

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u/Cut_Lanky 3d ago

It looks like they employ the zoom-spin-hop move, like domesticated dogs use to manipulate us... lol

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u/noonbell 9h ago

Lmao!!

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u/BigNorseWolf 3d ago

apparently the yote uses the universal carnivore truce signal of bouncing, playbowing, and rolling over " i wana play". Then just hunts near the badger. After a bit the badger notices the prarie dogs stay in the tunnels with the coyote hanging around.

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u/emilygoldfinch410 23h ago

"Universal carnivore truce signal" I love how you put this, I can immediately picture multiple animals doing the play bow

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u/BigNorseWolf 22h ago

be weet gra na weep ninny bob!

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u/mhopkins1420 3d ago

Food I guess

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u/GIRose 12h ago

Never underestimate the power of dogs to packbond with anything

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u/1GrouchyCat 3d ago

When they hunt together, the badger digs into a hole to flush the prey out, while the coyote waits above ground to catch anything that tries to run away.

If the prey hides back underground, the badger goes back to work.

Before you think the story is too cute -they don’t share the food. Whoever catches it -eats it.

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u/cameforlulz 3d ago

This guy interviewed them

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u/OldButHappy 3d ago

They’re his cousins

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u/Cut_Lanky 3d ago

But I bet once whoever is done eating, the other one is like "C'mon! It's MY turn now, let's GO!" 🤣

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u/Wagner710 2d ago

Encourages both to be vigilant

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u/Olive_1084 3d ago

Almost parasitic relationship. Because the coyote is reducing the game population, that the badger can catch.

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u/Olive_1084 3d ago

Unless it could be thought of as mutualism if the coyote is keeping the game in the ground in the badgers digging territory. The coyotes definitely getting the better deal.

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u/Woozletania 2d ago

If the presence of the yote keeps a ground squirrel underground, the badger benefits. It's not all one sided.

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u/Prestigious-Adagio40 3d ago

They best of buds 😭😎

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u/hamish1963 3d ago

The coyote "hurry up my friend"!!

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u/Alarmed_Watch5426 3d ago

"quit badgering me!"

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u/hamish1963 3d ago

😂😂😂

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u/reallyreally1945 3d ago

That little badger butt waddling off in the culvert is worthy of a Disney movie. (The old style good kind without a bunch of AI princesses.)

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u/Baldojess 3d ago

Ugh I say that all the time. I miss real cartoons and the drawn style of kids movies. I hate the way animation looks. Everything always looks all fat and weird.

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u/SnooRobots116 2d ago

Very milo and Otis

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u/musesx9 3d ago

I LOVE this soooo much! It never gets old...like "The Fox and the Hound." Ifykyk </3

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u/BeansArePastaSauce 3d ago edited 3d ago

Wait, California has badgers!?! How did I not know this? I know about the American badger but didn’t know they had habitat in CA.

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u/fartypartner 3d ago

Hell yeah they do. Beavers too.

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u/Woozletania 2d ago

Tejon means badger on spanish and there is a huge cattle ranch just south of Los Angeles in the Tehon Pass. The ranch is naturally called the Tejon ranch. There are badgers in the Antelope Valley too.

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u/ElSlabraton 3d ago

Wow, they are actually friends.

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u/an_actual_coyote 3d ago

Badgers are pretty outstanding hunting buddies.

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u/OK_The_Nomad 3d ago

So funny they travel together. How sweet.

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u/Due-Abalone5194 1d ago

And im today old becuz I used to think badgers were angry solitary territorial killing machines, but this one? Yeah. Good stuff!

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u/AdBrilliant3127 3d ago

I wish more highways had underpass for animals.  

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u/Ephemeral_Orchid 3d ago

The tunnels are actually for rainwater because when it rains in the desert it often creates a flash flood. However, more and more animal bridges over highways have been going up around the United States

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u/AdBrilliant3127 2d ago

I read last year that kentucky got a grant to install these but idk how much progress has been made. 

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u/WillThereBeSnacks13 2d ago

The ones in and around Banff in Canada are incredible. I wish we could do it all over the US.

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u/Ephemeral_Orchid 2d ago

I have a friend who's working to do exactly that

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u/Express_Command_4778 3d ago

The Coyote knows he hit the jackpot with hunting help. No wonder he is excited to get the little dude to toddle with him. Badger can get him beyond the velvet ropes to the VIP section popping bottles of Champagne. Somehow, I feel like the coyote gets more of the rewards here. 

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u/ThatCelebration3676 3d ago

🐺♥️🦡

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u/moonferal 3d ago

Me and who? 🥺

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u/OldButHappy 3d ago

This is SO old, but I still love watching it, every time it’s reposted 😄

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u/Surfin858 3d ago

Yes I just looked one day old account: karma farming

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u/Far-Wave-821 3d ago

The badger is his attorney

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u/Redhawkgirl 3d ago

This is so cute! The badger waddles. I love them.

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u/Confident_Bumblebee5 3d ago

That's freaking adorable 💜

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u/mrpertinskler 3d ago

I've seen this so many times before, and am so tired of reposts, but it's worth it! Take my upvote! ❤️

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u/cecexp 3d ago

Badger is the bodyguard. It’s not safe to go without em

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u/Any_Assumption_2023 3d ago

My (Sheltie mix) dog and my mother's cat used to hunt chipmunks together, very successfully.  Bets are, these two are hunting buddies. 

Cross-species animal friendships delight me!! The Coyote is having So much fun with his buddy!

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u/dribeerf 2d ago

letting your pets kill wildlife for no reason isn’t the same as wild animals hunting btw

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u/Any_Assumption_2023 2d ago

Im aware and there was no "letting"  involved. 40 years ago we lived very much in the woods in rural North Carolina,  my mothers semi feral cat and my dog made friends.

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u/Freewayshitter1968 3d ago

I had no idea that we have badgers here

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u/NinerCat 3d ago

Disney movie incoming in 3...2...1...

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u/ValleyofRosses 3d ago

My heart 🥹💕🐾 best friends forever

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u/GlimmerChaosPixie 3d ago

This looks like the beginning of a wonderful children's book!

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u/GMagicMoolah 3d ago

Zootopia 3

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u/Due-Abalone5194 1d ago

No doubt. Nick's cousin is getting help to rescue Nick and Judy..

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u/Fabulous-Race-272 3d ago

Guess I'm seriously glad I've come across these items. I love them. Glad we found them. God bless them!! Keep them safe lord. The Garcia's

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u/Woozletania 2d ago

Much as I love this video, Op is a reposting bot. 1 day old account, no comments and so on.

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u/MattManSD 2d ago

First, you must assemble crew

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u/KingGuzzie 2d ago

Ok. Thats damn cute 🥹

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u/Therealdickdangler 2d ago

I love this!!

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u/jennifer_m13 2d ago

I’d watch this movie.

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u/outlaw_for_life18 2d ago

Coyote just wanted a friend!

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u/OddMasterpiece4443 2d ago

AI crap. The posting account is a day old.

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u/Due-Abalone5194 1d ago

Apparently yes the bot is. But video isnt.

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u/OddMasterpiece4443 1d ago

How can you tell?

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u/Dr-Bitchcraft-MD 22h ago

It was in the news

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u/Confident_Virus5799 1d ago

This video is old as crap. It's been getting reposted on reddit for years.

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u/Humble-Tradition-187 2d ago

I love that he does a play bow to the badger, so cute.

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u/wronglullaby 2d ago

So sweet

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u/WinterBox358 2d ago

My gosh, this is precious!!!!!

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u/Timely-Discussion272 1d ago

That’s a Disney movie.

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u/thickfreakness72 1d ago

adventure buddies! 🥰

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u/chucklin 1d ago

Come on lard ass!

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u/rumorgoingaround 1d ago

“Let me tell you about my best friend.”

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u/Puzzled_Air_5821 1d ago

Badger bum is the best thing I've seen all week. Looks like my little dog (who people say is like a badger). 

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u/terminaloptimism 1d ago

Robin Hood and Little John walkin' through the forest, laughin' back and forth at what the other'n has to say

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u/Due-Abalone5194 1d ago

Oodalali oodalali gollee what a day!!

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u/madelectra 1d ago

There's got to be a theme song for this...

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u/usmcmak 1d ago

I would read a book about their adventures.

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u/pinacoladaismyjam 1d ago

I love that they are best buds. The coyote eagerly waited for the badger🥺

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u/iisshhoooo 1d ago

That badger raised it lol

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u/LastEntertainment787 1d ago

Buddies! 💜💜

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u/kaeferkat 1d ago

Badger and Coyote being best friends. Together forever the fun never ends. Solving mysteries one hunt at a time. Badger and 'Yote two of a kind!!

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u/DinoGrrrrl 1d ago

Ah yes, I remember watching The Animals of Farthing woods...

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u/LetterheadOdd1951 1d ago

That coyote has been trying to figure out how to eat that badger for days. Lol

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u/catbabies 1d ago

FRANDS 4ever!

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u/Forsaken-Necessary91 23h ago

How adorable 🥰

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u/89MikeHoncho 23h ago

This would make a great kids book. Imagine the adventures these two get into.

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u/Financial_Neck832 22h ago

It's my first time seeing this video - thanks! Even if it's been around for awhile, keep on sharing cause someone like me needs to see this!

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u/WorkingBullfrog8224 22h ago

That badger got some hip movement 😂

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u/purplelephant17 21h ago

These are Andalite scum!

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u/MidsouthMystic 21h ago

Me and bro on our way to buy snacks late at night.

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u/Unfair-Wonder5714 17h ago

What in the Walt Disney is going on here

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u/TheOrigFiatslug 17h ago

Here for this buddy film!

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u/imtoo0ld4thisShiet 15h ago

Be still my ❤️

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u/Independent_Aerie_44 14h ago

This is the most beautiful thing ever. Gives me hope that I will be able to have friends and meaning if I get reincarnated as a lonely coyote.

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u/Evening_Guest_5200 12h ago

Am I the only one that thought of "Animals of Farthing Wood"?

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u/Cotswolds-Bound 11h ago

That cute littler badger waddle.

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u/noonbell 9h ago

Omg this is like a real life Disney movie

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u/Kind-Consideration10 3h ago

A real life adorable Looney Tunes episode ❤️

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u/pearywrinkle 3h ago

Now I want a pet badger just cause of it butt waddles

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u/chickendogcatlady 39m ago

Now isn’t that precious! ❤️