The hour of the coyote: On urban encounters with the wild
A coyote at Cherry Beach in Toronto, Ont. in April 2012.At 3 a.m. it starts. Traditionally, this is the scariest time of the night – the period when the sleeper’s personal demons come out from under the bed. If you’re an insomniac and cinephile, you know this is the hour of the wolf.
Also, coyotes don’t look both ways before they cross the road. This morning’s visitor trots out to a spot in the middle of the intersection and stops amid the white traffic lines which during the day direct vehicles, schoolkids and suspicious dogs sniffing the night’s traces.
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