Essay On Coyote

Introduction
I chose to write about the most versatile animal that I can think of, the coyote! The coyote is a native to my original home, Wisconsin and to my current home, Colorado! The coyote is a mammal, just like us! This being said, they are many similarities in the make up of this animal!
Coyote
They coyote comes from the classification of eukaryote. From the “root” of the branch, comes both animals and plants. Animals and plants are sister taxa, meaning that they branch off from eukaryote, at the same point. I find these two to be the most closely related, for this reason. Just like we have a reproductive, cardiovascular and digestive system, so does the coyote. The reproductive system consists of the mouth, throat, liver, pancreas, stomach, large and small intestine and colon. Food will be chewed and then swallowed. It will then travel the very long way through the throat, to the stomach where it will be further broken down (called chyme). After the stomach the chyme moves along to the small intestine where it will be broken down even further, by secretions from the liver and pancreas. The small intestine is …show more content…
Since coyotes first came into existence, few changes have been made to the species. The biggest change noticed is that the coyote has become smaller. It is a common myth that the coyote has shrunk in size because of the climate change, but it has been found more likely that the species changed because of a difference in food availability. Scientists have ran studies on the close relative, the wolf, and were able to determine that climate change could not change the skeleton of the coyote. Dwindling food supplies was a part of natural selection that the coyote thrived through. The species needed to have a smaller body that they will need to provide for. With less food to go around, all species had to hunt harder for food. This forever made the species faster, more flexible and better