Golden Eagle Attacks and Kills Adult Male Coyote
Bibliographic record
Abstract
carcasses, but no incidents of actual killing of coyotes have been reported.On 23 December 1998 at 1600 H, I observed a coyote running along the crest of a hill in sagebrush-grass steppe 20 km northeast of Preston, ID U.S.A.A Golden Eagle circling perhaps 20 m above the hill stooped on the coyote and struck it just behind the shoulders knocking it to the ground.Almost immediately (within 10 sec), the eagle released the coyote and the coyote stood and ran over the crest of the hill.After a few moments (perhaps 30 sec), the eagle flew off in the direction the coyote disappeared.I arrived at the attack site about 20 min.later and followed the coyote's tracks and a blood trail in fresh snow.I flushed the eagle from a coulee about 50 m from the top of the hdl and found the coyote where the eagle was.The coyote was dead and the body cavity had been opened just below the ribs.The heart and portions of the liver were missing.The stomach and intestines remained intact, although they had been pulled from the carcass.The coyote was an adult male and the carcass (minus the portion consumed by the eagle) weighed 13.5 kg.There were two sets of puncture wounds just anterior to the shoulders.Each set consisted of two punctures about 4 cm apart with a third wound about 10 cm behind.This pattern is typical of an eagle attack (Wade and Browns 1984, Texas Agric.Ext.Serv.Publ.No. B-1429).I skinned the coyote and found that the talons had punctured the lungs and aorta.There were no other obvious wounds.Others have reported eagle attacks on coyotes and eagles feeding on coyote carcasses.Woelfl and Woelfl (1994) reported four Golden Eagles feeding on a freshly killed coyote pup in southeastern Alberta, Canada.They surmised that the coyote was surprised and killed while foraging about 300 m from cover.Ford and Alcorn (1964, Condor66: 76-77) and Dekker (1985, Can.Field-Nat.99:383-385) described several unsuccessful Golden Eagle attacks on coyotes Bowen (1980,
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Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.
Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
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| Metaresearch | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
Machine scores (provisional)
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Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
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machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one teacher head, not a consensus.
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