Coyote

goal. “Master Cat” and “Coyote Steals Fire” are two trickster tales which are more different than similar. In the trickster tales “Master Cat” and “Coyote Steals Fire” there are many similarities. The first similarity is the outcome of the story. In “Coyote Steals Fire” Coyote reaches his goal of stealing fire from thunder. In…

gamble. It’s not what you do best.” Coyote says this to the Thunder God in “Coyote Steals Fire,” when he cheated at a game of dice to get fire back. In “Coyote Steals Fire,” Coyote was trying to get fire back from the Thunder God by playing a game of dice. He ended up getting the fire back, by cheating at the game, which almost cost him his life when the Thunder God was going to throw the fire rock at him. After reading “How Stories Came to Earth” and Coyote Steals Fire,” it was very clear…

dramatic, but realistic way. Also, evil in this novel is known as Coyote, and this is because evil is being represented from the Native American point of view: “The thing is, Coyote keeps getting born, over and over,” said Bertha Moses. “He rides on the spirit of a newborn into this world. It don’t have to be a human newborn, it can be an animal, but once he’s born into this world, he slips off and goes walking until he…

In Terry Tempest Williams work In Cahoots with the Coyote, Williams champions the work and life story of painter and environmentalist Georgia O’ Keeffe. Williams compares O’ Keeffe to a coyote—a trickster. Like the coyote, she knew the “art of perception is deception.” The vibrant and dramatic images of the desert she made deceived viewers across America into wanting to visit the desert, a place where few had wanted to go before. O’ Keeffe is described to have an extremely intimate…

In 1960, the wolves who had covered most of the United States found themselves hunted; a hunt that would last until the 1960’s when they would be put on the endangered species list after their populations plummeted. The species of Gray wolf that was most common in the U.S. was almost hunted to extinction because complaints from ranchers and farmers that the wolf was a mindless, selfish, gutless killing machine. However, it is obvious through careful studying and monitoring that the wolves are a…

Taxonomy in biology is the study of naming, describing, and classifying new organisms into different branches, Domain, kingdom, phylum, class, order, family, genus, and species. Throughout history, humans have always classified organisms that they have encountered. One of the first taxonomists was Aristotle, “who organized five hundred types of animals according to habitat and body form” (http://www.biologyreference.com). However, the first modern taxonomist was Swedish botanist Carl Linnaeus,…

Grey Wolf Optimizer (GWO) is inspired by grey wolves. The leadership hierarchy and hunting mechanism of grey wolves is mimicked by GWO algorithm. GWO employs four types of grey wolves such as alpha, beta, delta, and omega. GWO consists of three main steps of hunting, searching for prey. Encircling prey, and attacking prey [38]. GWO is benchmarked on many challenging test problems and applied to some real engineering problems. The results reveal that GWO is able to provide very competitive…

In 1974, the gray wolf was placed on the endangered species list, but in Yellowstone National Park wolves had already been hunted for almost a hundred years, the last pack being killed off in 1926. In 1995, eight wolves were relocated from western Canada to Yellowstone, and in the next year, a total of thirty-one wolves were brought in (NPS, 2016). This was the start of what some may call one of the greatest wildlife restoration projects ever undertaken. Twenty years after the fact, Yellowstone…

The Maned Wolf The legs of a deer, the face of a fox, and the body of a wolf, what is it? The maned wolf is an interesting animal that not many people may know about. It can be described by what it looks like, its eating habits, and its social structure. Despite its name this animal looks more like a fox rather than a wolf and has even been described as a “fox on stilts”. But, this unique looking species isn’t closely related to either. In fact, the maned wolf is the only member of its genus,…

10. Lancashire Heeler. Though it looks like a wolf with its pointy ears and eyes, the Lancashire Heeler is just a small dog breed. They were developed to be used as herder and drover of cattles. No matter what the weather is, the Lancashire Heeler stays dry because it has an undercoat that helps keep it dry. In general, the Lancashire Heeler is a great companion because they are intelligent, friendly and alert. However, they can be lazy and really loud at times due to their energy level. They…