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Photographer W. Steve Sherman was looking for mule deer a few miles south of his home in Dillon when he spotted this coyote hunting mice in an old field. “Usually when you see a coyote it’s on the run, because they get shot at so much,” Sherman says. “But this one was so intent on mousing it didn’t pay any attention to me. I watched it for about 20 minutes and took this picture right from the car.” The photographer says the coyote was locating its prey by sound. “It would move its ears back and forth, listening. When it heard a mouse, it would raise its tail and then leap up and pounce on the mouse with its paws and muzzle.” n
6 | March–April 2008 | fwp.mt.gov/mtoutdoors
