Have you ever come across places in the woods, fields, and brush where coyotes have been digging? Do you ever get curious enough to check out what they are digging up? The other day I got curious and had quite a surprise.
As I walked through a field, checking out a timber harvest, I saw one of those coyote digs that show up here and there.
Yup, coyote footprints and scat.
I checked it out and figured it would be the usual, “there is a hole they dug, but why?”
After looking things over, I did a double take on what I thought was a stone or clump of dirt.
Wait, that isn’t a stone! Are those appendages sticking out?
It looks like frog or toad legs sticking out. But where is the head? It is gone! It is a headless toad!
So, maybe those coyote digs I see around really do have something they find. The reason the hole is empty is because whatever was there got eaten.
But why just eat a head and not the body? Or did the head get left behind in the hole? Or was the toad head eaten earlier, the toad body buried and now just dug up?
I Google-searched for what coyotes eat and toads are on the uncommon list. So, it makes sense that the toad was not eaten. They do occasionally bury food if it is plentiful and not all eaten at one time.
Anybody have an idea about what might have happened to the head?
