The Badger and the Coyote
Yes, it sounds like one of Aesop’s fables, and it does crop up in Native American folklore, but it’s based on observed reality. Though coyotes and badgers are each solitary predators, they will at times team up to hunt together. There’s are even videos of them together. The latest one shows them in a culvert in night-vision, but this one gives a better view of one these odd couples on the move.
This phenomenon, called mutualism by biologists, has been observed in the field for many years. The coyote, fast and agile, excels at chasing prairie dogs, but they’re poor at digging. Badgers can’t catch prairie dogs in the open, but once the rodents go to ground, badgers can dig them out. The interesting thing is that the coyote and badger don’t share their kills, yet their teamwork nets more prey for both in the long run. Another important point: They don’t cooperate all the time. In winter, when rodents hibernate, the badger has no need for the coyote’s skills, and coyotes will kill and eat badgers if they can find them. But when there’s a benefit to both, they work together.
If you don’t see where I’m going with this, let me just say that while I despise the thought of either Mayo Pete or Mike Bloomberg as the Democratic nominee, I will dig out rodents for them when the time comes.
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BTW just watched 5 minutes of MSNBC New Hampshire “coverage”
I learned the Bernie “mob” is rude and Bernie is the Dems version of Trump.
Thanks MSNBC!!!
He is. Much as I like his bluntness, if he gets the nomination, his slogan might well be “a better kind of crazy
I’ve gotten beyond caring who gets the nomination. It’s time to go hunting.
After all the energy about Mueller, Russia & impeachment you really don’t care who gets nominated?
Ok I’ll take it!
I care. I more mean it makes no difference who I want to be nominated. I actually get no say in the matter, so I’m not going to waste energy fretting about it.
I especially don’t want to get into how coyotes are sell-outs, not to be trusted. True, but for the moment meaningless.
I’m hungry for rodent. I don’t care who gets the first one, we’re all better off in the long run.
I should also note that I’m unimpressed by the ability of Democratic primary voters to determine their best candidate. Look back at the record and you’ll see they’ve chosen more than their share of stiffs. Other than Obama, I can’t remember when they chose the best candidate, going back to Carter.
Does it matter that the guy who wants to turn the system on its head is practically eighty years old and has recently had a heart attack?
Nope. They can nominate Jo Jo the Dog-Faced Boy and I’ll vote for him — even if Joe Biden calls him a dog-faced pony soldier.
Great audio of Bloomberg at the Aspen Ideas Festival from 2015! Hahaha. Mike Bloomberg is a very tiny very wealthy racist.
He tried to spike the video (classic Mayo Pete move). The audio lives…
Joe Biden is the same sort of racist, and he’s No. 1 among black voters. And Bloomberg is doing well too. So I have to question how much it matters.
That’s where we are — we have candidates whose generational/institutional racism disturbs the woke but plays just fine with African Americans. My theory is that African Americans judge a white person’s racism level better than, or at least differently from, white people — and that being subjected to it daily, they can distinguish the racism of a Trump from that of a Bloomberg more accurately than we can.
Remember, too, that older African Americans are less likely than woke white people to worry about racism in policing young blacks. The lock-’em-up laws of the ’90s were passed partly in response to pressure from the public on black as well as white politicians. (Of course they had no way of knowing that the CIA was the cause of the situation.)
In short, I don’t think this will make a whit of difference.