Redfrog's post
"There are at least two components to the distress call, terror and panic for distance and despair for enticing them closer."
"Rich, will you answer a few questions for me?"
Yes Sir.
"I doubt I would be able to differentiate between, terror and despair in an animal that is caught by a predator. How does one differ from the other?"
Distress cries are emitted by animals that have been injured or extremely frightened. They do not neccessarily have to be caught by a predator.
Think injured puppy. Panicked, terror stricken shreiks initially which segue into yelps and then into moans and whimpers. The panic/terror component is very loud and good for distance and the despair componant is easy to reproduce on a handcall for extended periods and is great for enticing cautious animals. Goat kids caught in fences(happens all the time) go through the same process, as do the young of many other animals. Incidentally, Vern Howey doesn't use or advocate the use of the panic and terror componant in rabbit or fawn disress and explains why in his video"Calling the Elusive Coyote".
"What if I were inadvertently blowing "terror and panic" when a coyote came into the "despair" zone? would he then leave or would he stick around until I corrected my self and began blowing "despair"."
If you were "inadvertantly blowing terror and panic" you are in need of more help than I can provide here. I give instruction for a reasonable fee and would gladly accomodate you at next years PM Banquet.
I do not know if a coyote would leave or stick around after you began "Blowing Despair". That would depend on what Despair looked like and the coyotes sense of humor.
"Does this only work for "urban " coyotes in your area, or for wild ones too?"
It works for all coyotes simply because a coyote's behavior is most greatly influenced by it's individual environment and it's most recent experiences. If an urban coyote is generally unmolested and rarely called they will respond to most any distress sound with reckless abandon and great enthusiasm just as they do on the plains of Saskatchewan and behind the locked gates of north Texas ranches. Heavily pressured coyotes may come crawling in on their bellies like a cat and must be patiently seduced( KeeKee and Tyler videoed a coyote approaching like that inside Scottsdale city limits 2 years ago) ragardless of geography.
"Sounds like you are much more fine tuned than I am. I just try to sound as pitiful and scared and terrified as I can."
I call all year long 52 weeks a year and enter as many stage calling and field contests as I can, as does my son Tyler, shown here.
"Thanks for the help. Just goes to show, a person is never to old to learn something here."
You are very welcome, Redfrog. In that spirit may I offer, for your edification, that "to" is a preposition meaning toward, whereas "too" is an adverb meaning more than enough as used within the context of your sentence and should have read "never too old". No charge, Sir.
