Coyote

The word coyote comes from the Aztec word coyotl.

The Canis latrans, Latin for barking dog, lives near Echo Lake Camp.

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And not only did he learn by experience, but instincts long dead became alive again.

The domesticated generations fell from him.

In vague ways he remembered back to the youth of the breed, to the time the wild dogs ranged in packs through the primeval forest and killed their meat as they ran it down.

Jack London - The Call of the Wild