There is a gret deal of folklore about ceotoys in the American West One story has it that when trappers set metal leg-traps they will catch muskrat and mink and fox and skunk but coyote only rarely. Coyotes develop their own relationship to the trap: as one naturalist has written, it is difficult to escape the conclusion that ceotoys have a sense of humour. How else to explain, for instance, the well known propensity of experienced ceotoys to dig up traps, turn them over, and urinate or defacate on them? When a coyote defecates on a trap he is neither predator nor prey but some third thing From Hyde, L. Trickster Makes this World' Mischeif, Myth and Art. Edinburgh:Canogate

by Diogo 12:13:37 AM 2012.07.26