Ep. 86: Persecuting Predators and the History Coyotes in America with Dan Flores
The Hunting Collective
MeatEater
4.5 • 3K Ratings
🗓️ 5 November 2019
⏱️ 147 minutes
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On this week’s show, we’re joined by Sam Lungren, Anthony Licata, and Spencer Neuharth to discuss halloween costumes, World Series action, and our different experiences with coyotes over the years. In the interview portion of the show we’re joined by author Dan Flores to talk about the cultural and spiritual history of the coyote in America. Enjoy.
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| 1:49.0 | here with Phil, the engineer. Hello. And it's another week, episode 86. And this one is a great one. |
| 1:56.3 | It's about the coyote or the coyote or the coyote. However you choose to set. And this came up, |
| 2:04.4 | this topic came up recently. I mean, the coyote is obviously something we're all interested in. |
| 2:09.1 | But the topic came up recently around hunters and how they feel about predators. Do we feel like |
| 2:16.4 | competing with us for our beautiful and delicious deer and elk and mues and things like that? |
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