Democratic Sentinel, Volume 17, Number 6, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 24 February 1893 — How Coyotes Hunt Jackrabbits. [ARTICLE]

How Coyotes Hunt Jackrabbits.

Ben Curley relates that while out on his recent deer-hunting trip he witnessed the manner in which coyotes catch a rabbit. He was sitting ou a pile of rock overlooking a little valley, possibly a mile across, stalking a drove of deer which was expected to issue through a narrow ravine nearby, when his attention was called to two little objects which dashed over the brow of the hill and into the valley'nearly a mile away. Looking through his field glass he discovered them to be coyotes in full chase of a jackrabbit. The rabbit was about fifty yards in the lead and was covering the earth as only a jackrabbit can, excepting a coyote. By and by one of the coyotes laid down. The other followed the fleeing hare, and in tue course of time succeeded in turning him back on his course toward the one lying down. When the rabbit w T as quite close this one raised up and took up chase, while the other laid down. The unfortunate rabbit was again successfully turned back, and the first coyote once more gave chase. The third time worked the charm, and bunny, conspicous only of the foe pursuing, passed so near his couching antagonist that he was seized.—[Nevada Stato Journal.