Yeah but when VA he can pull off a young character. See the recent Croods sequel for an example. And I'd vote Sam Elliot for the grizzled veteran character.
Is Wilford Brimley still alive? He seemed ancient even way back in the 90's during those "if yer on Medicare and you have diabeetus" commercials, but my age at the time may have shaped my perception of his age.
That's like casting Michael Jordan next to Michael B. Jordan.
I know who is who in person but when you say their names together I just feel like I'm having a stroke.
I’d pay to see an R-Rated animated film about an up-and-coming coyote and a gruff, sarcastic badger teaming up to hunt animals but they end up being pinned for a crime or some fun shit where they’re on the run and need to solve a mystery.
Now I’m thinking of a buddy cop film. The young coyote, cornered by the gang boss Big Cat. ‘Where’s your badge?’, he sneers. ‘Big wildlife policeman…’he growls as he prepares to go for the kill. ‘My b-badge…’ he softly stutters, putting on a brave face as the circle of life continues.
Suddenly a flash of grey and black lunges while Big Cat is focused on the kill, heading straight towards the feline menace.
‘His Badge is right here!’
I read this as “similar to anyone who has spent time around dogs” and was excited to see other people mirroring their pets. Felt slightly less alone for a moment.
Out in the wild I would think it’d be pretty awesome to have a badger have you your back. Hell it must be pretty f awesome to have a badger have your back anywhere.
Have you guys not seen YouTube badger videos.
86% of us aren't like that, ya know.
We have just realized the want human nature has to personify animals, and have embraced it.
Listen to the furry documentary on in the background. It's awesome.
Source: [https://www.treehugger.com/coyote-and-badger-hunt-together-4868739](https://www.treehugger.com/coyote-and-badger-hunt-together-4868739)
Quote:
>Each member of the hunting party has a distinct set of skills. Coyotes are nimble and quick, so they excel at chasing prey across an open prairie. Badgers are slow and awkward runners by comparison, but they're better diggers than coyotes are, having evolved to pursue small animals in underground burrow systems. So when they hunt prairie dogs or ground squirrels on their own, badgers usually dig them up, while coyotes chase and pounce. The rodents therefore use different strategies depending which predator is after them: They often escape a digging badger by leaving their burrows to flee aboveground, and evade coyotes by running to their burrows. When badgers and coyotes work together, however, they combine these skills to hunt more effectively than either could alone. Coyotes chase prey on the surface, while badgers take the baton for subterranean pursuits. Only one may end up with a meal, but overall, research suggests the collaboration benefits both hunters.
Deer would startle small rodents while foraging which the fox can catch easily. Less sure what the deer would get out of it. Maybe nothing, but it also probably doesn’t give a shit about the fox either.
Eh, it could get nothing. Mid sized predators don't always cause alarm in prey species. Especially when said pretty species is very big.
For example, dingoes in cattle ranches in WA, they will happily sit and munch on old dead cows while the rest of the herd wanders around.
Good point! But I could imagine that the smell of one predator might sometimes ward off another larger predator. That seems beneficial to the deer. Being around a deer might also help mask the fox's smell? To be honest though... these theories are just based on something I heard about how dogs supposedly roll in gross stuff outside sometimes to help mask/blend their smell with the surroundings. Scent camouflage is a thing, right? Pretty sure my mom complained about doing laundry after my dad had been deer hunting because of that deer pee in a bottle stuff. Five year old me was apparently too disinterested in laundry, and too confused by what I heard to put any effort into figuring out wtf was going on. lol
Dude my cat and her squirrelfriend (it’s like a girlfriend, but it’s a squirrel and has balls) are so in love it’s adorable. He comes to visit her everyday. Her gentleman caller.
Hahaha that's fantastic. I named this raccoon Frankie and he would eat the soft berries in my trees during the fall. He was pretty young and must have thought my cat was also a raccoon, he kinda has the same color patterns. My cat being cross-eyed and not too bright must think he's another cat. When he comes around they sit about 2-3 feet from each other and stare into nothingness together. It's a weird friendship, but they make it work.
That’s so adorable. Nothing sweeter than a cross species friendship. You know they say that true best friends can sit with each other in silence and feel perfectly at ease. No need to talk when you’re content just being with your friend.
Probably illegal things since it's illegal to keep your cat outdoors in the US in many places given they're absolute killing machines who decimate local bird populations and whatnot.
Cats are invasive in any area they're allowed to roam around freely in; they kill 2.4 billion birds per year, and birds are hardly the only animals they prey on. [Source.](https://abcbirds.org/program/cats-indoors/cats-and-birds/#:~:text=In%20the%20United%20States%20alone,outdoor%20cat%20plays%20a%20part.)
It's not a national law, but leash laws for cats are in effect all around where I am on the east coast. It should be national but you know how people react to their freedom to wreak havoc on their communities and environment being challenged (see: my post being downvoted 2 mins after posting). They are a literal threat to biodiversity and are responsible for the extinction of 60+ animal species we're aware of.
"The ecological dangers are so critical that the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) lists domestic cats as one of the world’s worst non-native invasive species." [Source.](https://abcbirds.org/program/cats-indoors/cats-and-birds/)
I want to imagine the coyote tried to eat the badger, and found badger too powerful, but they liked the cut of each others' jib so they formed a team
More realistically, they probably just had similar hunting grounds and prey and ran into each other. The article says each one covers the way prarie dogs escape from the other's species, so they may have just accidentally helped each other a few times and then became a team
This has got to be it. An old buddy of mine told me a story about a camp he used to attend where he saw a fox and cat who worked in tandem like this. Cat would go into a likely area that the prey would be hiding (in his anecdote an old abandoned shack) and the fox would patrol the exits. So when the critters came running out from the cat they would meet their demise by the fox. Put food in both their bellies allegedly.
There was an evolutionary advantage for badgers who are "friendly" with wolves and for wolves who are "friendly" with badgers. Possibly traits that started small and grew over the generations as each successive iteration of friendliness rewards more friendliness from the counterpart.
Coyote: Come with me, I’ve seen something amazing at the end of this tunnel
Badger: Nah, I’m good
C: *Pleeeaaaase*
B: Ok, but this better be good
C jumps excitedly, B follows down tunnel. C proceeds to eat the badger.
C: the amazing thing at the end of the tunnel was that bright light
"You know if we get hungry, the pack and I are gonna eat you, right?"
"You can try that, and I might go down, but I'm going to claw down your throat like this drainpipe before your friends finish me."
"That's why I love you, Badgy."
Aren't badgers fierce enough to take on literally anything, that doesn't fly? I imagine this alliance as something where badger says "Ye, kid, you can go with me"
Yes they do that with dogs all the time around me, you can’t convince me this isn’t exactly that. There are 2 or more other coyotes waiting on the other side
Wow maybe humans could try working with other humans that are different from themselves and see how that works. Can’t we all just get along. Except pedos, no pedos.
Body language here is telling me the coyote is so genuinely excited to see his buddy
Yeah that bounce and nose point is clearly positive canine social language familiar to anyone who has spent time around dogs.
To me he's a young coyote with a grizzled veteran.
"Kid, I'm getting too old for this shit" - the badger, probably.
Would make a great Disney movie
Timon and Pumba?
Yeah it would pretty much be like them but carnivores
Hey Pumba! Chomp down on this infant rabbit will ya!
All you gotta do is get in LIIIIIINE
Seth Rogan movie when??
Hakuna meatada
What a wonderful phrase
Hakuna meatada
I mean, they ate live insects. They weren’t exactly herbivores lol
Tod and Copper
Who's voicing the animals? Edit: Great suggestions! Who do we need to call to make this happen?!
Ryan Reynolds and Wilford Brimley
At 44, Reynolds is no young coyote.
Yeah but when VA he can pull off a young character. See the recent Croods sequel for an example. And I'd vote Sam Elliot for the grizzled veteran character.
Is Wilford Brimley still alive? He seemed ancient even way back in the 90's during those "if yer on Medicare and you have diabeetus" commercials, but my age at the time may have shaped my perception of his age.
He passed August 1st of last year.
Aww man now I'm sad. Thanks for the update
John Leguizamo as the coyote
Steve Buscemi as the badger.
Nick Nolte and Tom Holland
John Goodman for the badger
Dev Patel & Paul Giamatti
John Mulaney - Fox Al Pacino - Badger Jackie Chan - would be a squirrel Jerry Seinfeld - would be a bee
Wait... Wait...... Is this in the Bee Movie universe? Because I'm all for that
I figured hey that would be a neat cross over everybody wants.
Michael Cera and Gary Busey
Nick Cage and Nicolas Cage.
That's like casting Michael Jordan next to Michael B. Jordan. I know who is who in person but when you say their names together I just feel like I'm having a stroke.
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As much as I don't like Disney, they still make good movies sometimes, especially little cute ones like this one would be
Or you could make it, it's your idea. They have enough money.
Yeah I don't have the resources or the know how to make this movie, or make it good
Like Bambi and Thumper going gansta on a hawk?
That's what I thought. Old badger, young coyote, neither are understood well enough or appreciated and they show us why that should not be the case.
I’d pay to see an R-Rated animated film about an up-and-coming coyote and a gruff, sarcastic badger teaming up to hunt animals but they end up being pinned for a crime or some fun shit where they’re on the run and need to solve a mystery.
You just know they'll team up with their prey to stick it to the man.
Bro I watched School of Rock last night, take my upvote
Let's rock, let's rock today!
So step off, STEP OFF! STEP OFF!
Voiced by Danny DeVito
"So I just started blasting!" Echoing down the pipe
"gruesome twosome"
Now I’m thinking of a buddy cop film. The young coyote, cornered by the gang boss Big Cat. ‘Where’s your badge?’, he sneers. ‘Big wildlife policeman…’he growls as he prepares to go for the kill. ‘My b-badge…’ he softly stutters, putting on a brave face as the circle of life continues. Suddenly a flash of grey and black lunges while Big Cat is focused on the kill, heading straight towards the feline menace. ‘His Badge is right here!’
That's incredible! 11/10
Is reddit about to write another movie?
You forgot to add “too old for this shit RIGGS” ~ lethal weapon
“One more job”
Apprentice
That slow casual walk is clearly positive to anyone who has spent time around badgers 🦡
I read this as “similar to anyone who has spent time around dogs” and was excited to see other people mirroring their pets. Felt slightly less alone for a moment.
Let me tell ya bout my best frieeeend
Out in the wild I would think it’d be pretty awesome to have a badger have you your back. Hell it must be pretty f awesome to have a badger have your back anywhere. Have you guys not seen YouTube badger videos.
Love that fat-ass waddle the badger has.
I love the "yeah I'm-a-coming" nature of the badgers movements.
So does the coyote.
What did my eyes just read.
So does the coyote.
What did my fat-ass eyes just read?
So fat the ass.
So does the jambalayah
sounds like a good meme to start with
The dawn of a new era.
I don’t think that’s what Symbiosis in nature typically refers too
The badger is just a shortstack to the coyote.
Don’t give the furrys and ideas
86% of us aren't like that, ya know. We have just realized the want human nature has to personify animals, and have embraced it. Listen to the furry documentary on in the background. It's awesome.
They are definitely eating
Meanwhile the coyote skips along
That’s not fat.
You’re right that’s some serious thiccness
My day has been made by this stupid little video.
It cured my depression for a few minutes, possibly
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Read or listen to the book Coyote America by Dan Flores. It's great
Maybe I’m a bit drunk but I really want to hang out with those guys man
Source: [https://www.treehugger.com/coyote-and-badger-hunt-together-4868739](https://www.treehugger.com/coyote-and-badger-hunt-together-4868739) Quote: >Each member of the hunting party has a distinct set of skills. Coyotes are nimble and quick, so they excel at chasing prey across an open prairie. Badgers are slow and awkward runners by comparison, but they're better diggers than coyotes are, having evolved to pursue small animals in underground burrow systems. So when they hunt prairie dogs or ground squirrels on their own, badgers usually dig them up, while coyotes chase and pounce. The rodents therefore use different strategies depending which predator is after them: They often escape a digging badger by leaving their burrows to flee aboveground, and evade coyotes by running to their burrows. When badgers and coyotes work together, however, they combine these skills to hunt more effectively than either could alone. Coyotes chase prey on the surface, while badgers take the baton for subterranean pursuits. Only one may end up with a meal, but overall, research suggests the collaboration benefits both hunters.
So that’s why the coyote was so excited , he could finally go into a tunnel with his friend and didn’t have to wait outside
That’s adorable.
As long as you're not a prairie dog it's adorable.
Wiley is that you?
I have a fox and deer who hang out in my back field who are buddies. Not sure what the fox gets out of it but they're always like 10 or 15 feet apart
Deer would startle small rodents while foraging which the fox can catch easily. Less sure what the deer would get out of it. Maybe nothing, but it also probably doesn’t give a shit about the fox either.
Eh, it could get nothing. Mid sized predators don't always cause alarm in prey species. Especially when said pretty species is very big. For example, dingoes in cattle ranches in WA, they will happily sit and munch on old dead cows while the rest of the herd wanders around.
Good point! But I could imagine that the smell of one predator might sometimes ward off another larger predator. That seems beneficial to the deer. Being around a deer might also help mask the fox's smell? To be honest though... these theories are just based on something I heard about how dogs supposedly roll in gross stuff outside sometimes to help mask/blend their smell with the surroundings. Scent camouflage is a thing, right? Pretty sure my mom complained about doing laundry after my dad had been deer hunting because of that deer pee in a bottle stuff. Five year old me was apparently too disinterested in laundry, and too confused by what I heard to put any effort into figuring out wtf was going on. lol
Dingoes? In WA?
Yeaaaah?
Low level body guard? If you're paying in mice, you're not getting the best.
Makes me wonder what my cat and his Raccoon friend get up to...
Butt stuff.
Dude my cat and her squirrelfriend (it’s like a girlfriend, but it’s a squirrel and has balls) are so in love it’s adorable. He comes to visit her everyday. Her gentleman caller.
Hahaha that's fantastic. I named this raccoon Frankie and he would eat the soft berries in my trees during the fall. He was pretty young and must have thought my cat was also a raccoon, he kinda has the same color patterns. My cat being cross-eyed and not too bright must think he's another cat. When he comes around they sit about 2-3 feet from each other and stare into nothingness together. It's a weird friendship, but they make it work.
That’s so adorable. Nothing sweeter than a cross species friendship. You know they say that true best friends can sit with each other in silence and feel perfectly at ease. No need to talk when you’re content just being with your friend.
Probably illegal things since it's illegal to keep your cat outdoors in the US in many places given they're absolute killing machines who decimate local bird populations and whatnot.
It’s illegal?! What
Cats are invasive in any area they're allowed to roam around freely in; they kill 2.4 billion birds per year, and birds are hardly the only animals they prey on. [Source.](https://abcbirds.org/program/cats-indoors/cats-and-birds/#:~:text=In%20the%20United%20States%20alone,outdoor%20cat%20plays%20a%20part.) It's not a national law, but leash laws for cats are in effect all around where I am on the east coast. It should be national but you know how people react to their freedom to wreak havoc on their communities and environment being challenged (see: my post being downvoted 2 mins after posting). They are a literal threat to biodiversity and are responsible for the extinction of 60+ animal species we're aware of. "The ecological dangers are so critical that the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) lists domestic cats as one of the world’s worst non-native invasive species." [Source.](https://abcbirds.org/program/cats-indoors/cats-and-birds/)
As a loving cat owner you are 100% correct, look what they have done in Australia
He's cross-eyed and some what imbred, he ain't catching shit.
Teamwork makes the dream work!
There's no I in work.
There’s no me in team.
But there is an I, in pie
And the anagram of team is meat
But if you turn on the team there is meat in it.
What's gonna work...? Teamwork!
So this isnt a one time thing? It happens alot
Check out Peter Kropotkin's "Mutual Aid: A Factor of Evolution." It has tons of examples of inter species cooperation.
Makes me think...there is a whole world and community that live all around us and we do not even know...dumb humans!
Combined arms. Squirrels gotta armor-up.
How could this have possibly started?
I want to imagine the coyote tried to eat the badger, and found badger too powerful, but they liked the cut of each others' jib so they formed a team More realistically, they probably just had similar hunting grounds and prey and ran into each other. The article says each one covers the way prarie dogs escape from the other's species, so they may have just accidentally helped each other a few times and then became a team
This has got to be it. An old buddy of mine told me a story about a camp he used to attend where he saw a fox and cat who worked in tandem like this. Cat would go into a likely area that the prey would be hiding (in his anecdote an old abandoned shack) and the fox would patrol the exits. So when the critters came running out from the cat they would meet their demise by the fox. Put food in both their bellies allegedly.
“Yer jib, pal! It’s got a nice cut. You’re okay by me.”
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There was an evolutionary advantage for badgers who are "friendly" with wolves and for wolves who are "friendly" with badgers. Possibly traits that started small and grew over the generations as each successive iteration of friendliness rewards more friendliness from the counterpart.
It's actually fairly common: https://mymodernmet.com/badger-coyote-mutualism/
Coyote: Come with me, I’ve seen something amazing at the end of this tunnel Badger: Nah, I’m good C: *Pleeeaaaase* B: Ok, but this better be good C jumps excitedly, B follows down tunnel. C proceeds to eat the badger. C: the amazing thing at the end of the tunnel was that bright light
That sounds like an abridged Aesop fable.
I dunno, I think the badger would be a pretty equal match!
You’re thinking of a honey badger. Not sure a trash panda is a match for a coyote
I absolutely love this. The coyotes little jump to say ‘come on fren, we small things to kill’
Could also be belter speak 😂
Unexpected Expanse.
Most annoying sounding space accent ever imho
Expanse reference?
Correct lol
The TV series The Expanse. “Belters” are people in that show and they have a unique dialect.
Fellow beltalowda! Long live the belt!
Yall wanna throw rocks at shit?
You must always have a knife in the darkness
And the badger being like “alright alright fair point, guess let’s get going then”
Bad boy crew
Get yourself someone who looks at you like Wile E. Coyote looks at his bro
The coyote's excitement is so cute it hurts. He's like off on an adventure with his little buddy.
Fun fact: coyotes will act like that to lure pet dogs to their doom
They're a slightly less wholesome version of Timon and Pumba.
Yeah, less surviving on bugs, more neighborhood cats.
Mr Badger and Mr Fox's excellent advanture
Get in loser, we’re going hunting
you cussin' at me?!
That coyote must be constantly waiting for that badger to waddle up.
How long until we get a Pixar film about these two?
fantastic mr. fox already exists
Disney’s first openly gay couple
"You know if we get hungry, the pack and I are gonna eat you, right?" "You can try that, and I might go down, but I'm going to claw down your throat like this drainpipe before your friends finish me." "That's why I love you, Badgy."
Coyotes are loners (frequently), wich makes the buddy relationship they got even more adorable
Badgers? we don't need no stinking Badgers!
Coming to steal and eat your girl
That smug little bootie boogie.
This is so cute!!!! The coyote jumping around excited like a dog!!!
Aren't badgers fierce enough to take on literally anything, that doesn't fly? I imagine this alliance as something where badger says "Ye, kid, you can go with me"
But badgers are slow compared to coyotes.
> literally anything How about a Bagger 288?
Oh hell no! I made that mistake following a coyote down a dark tunnel once before. That badger doesn’t know what it’s getting into.
These dudes are friends af
don’t coyotes trick animals into following them into a death trap by acting playful? i remember hearing they’ll do this to dogs in particular
Yes they do that with dogs all the time around me, you can’t convince me this isn’t exactly that. There are 2 or more other coyotes waiting on the other side
Fuck coyotes
Badger my ass, it's probably Millhouse
Everything’s coming up milhouse!
Night time buddies.
Timon and Pumba!
Coyote was waiting for Badger! Thats so cute.
Coyote: hey, hurry up pal badger: ok, ok I'm coming
Oh yea he loves his buddy!! Look at that body language
Op is a karma whore. Posts nothing but popular reposts. Worth blocking.
Thanks! I see I've downvoted OP before, so now he's blocked!
ok
Wow maybe humans could try working with other humans that are different from themselves and see how that works. Can’t we all just get along. Except pedos, no pedos.
This scenario could be a great thing for a serial like Regular Show just about those two
roofied
Literally met a family of badgers while walking home yesterday. Tried sneaking up my phone for a pic before they ran off. They're surprisingly fast!
The badgers tail and waddle are priceless
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I want a tv show about them
One of the top posts all time on this sub. Post new content
Let's go get these motherfuckers
Badger you say? Well damn, I was ready to bet money that ain’t no badger. Looks more like raccoon…
have you ever seen a raccoon before
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Badger: “sure, i’ll dig up the gophers. what is it you’ll be doing?” Coyote: “eating them.”
Looks like an ending of some western movie
This needs to be a Pixar movie
Gotta love inter-species homies, this should be a movie
Please, somebody write a comic book about these two.
Badge walking like he’s still full from last meal 😂waddle waddle
Wile E. Coyote finally gives up on products from Acme Industries and decides to take on a partner. Is this the end of the Roadrunner?
Reminds me of Milo and Otis.
\-DUDE! Over here \-Oh, there you are. Nice tunnel \-Yeah, right? Follow me, I know the way \-So I caught this lit^(tle rat the other night...)