Yotes - Smell - Distance ?

Hard to tell just how good a nose that coyotes really have. It probably compares about with that of a domesticated dog. However, I would guess that a moose has the best nose in the world of animals, because a moose's eyes are about like that of a person, badly in need of glasses, thus his life very often depends on how well he can smell danger.
Coyotes, on the other hand are so sharp eyed that a good nose is not needed as often to keep them from danger, only for finding food.
 
fingers284 said:
No doubt Yotes can get a wiff of something a long ways downwind but I think sound has more of a bearing on them hitting a carcass than anything. A carcass that has a noisy flock of magpies (their the babies that can find sh!t in a hurry) ravens or crows will attract quicker attention than smell.

Magpies are incredible. I just butchered a deer last night and put the boned out meat on the back deck to chill overnight . That meat is completely covered and hidden from open view but this morn. shortly after daylight when I got up there was already a flock of 6 bird trying to get access to that meat
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Best thing in the world to signal a yote to a free meal....the noisy Magpie. I have also shot two yotes watching Magpies follow them down a treeline. Was able to get set up and ready for their appearance!!
 
fingers284 said:
No doubt Yotes can get a wiff of something a long ways downwind but I think sound has more of a bearing on them hitting a carcass than anything. A carcass that has a noisy flock of magpies (their the babies that can find sh!t in a hurry) ravens or crows will attract quicker attention than smell.

Magpies are incredible. I just butchered a deer last night and put the boned out meat on the back deck to chill overnight . That meat is completely covered and hidden from open view but this morn. shortly after daylight when I got up there was already a flock of 6 bird trying to get access to that meat
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are you saying magpies can smell?
 
I once threw a chunk of bloody ice from my trapping sled over my fence and within 30 seconds a magpie flew down to check it out. ....I have no idea where it came from.

I would 100 percent say that magpies direct yotes to dead animals with their noises more so than smell of the animal. Especially in the winter when the dead animal freezes and doesn't rot.

Lastly, you don't see yotes running around with their heads held up in the air trying to follow scent.
 
I thought of this tread this morning - I'm setup on a field that I in my opinion is to large to call but I gave it try. Wind is blowing from my left as a cross wind. I start a set and in a few seconds a coyote comes over the rise well over 300+ yards towards my calling and then turns and starts going into the wind heading out in front of me still out there and the wind changes and the coyote turns and starts running away looking back. That coyote caught wind of me out over 300yds. End of hunt...
 
when I feed my fish the big magpies come and pick up any cornels that may have dropped on the ground from the toss scoop and they go all around the pond and grab what has floated to the shore. It's especially funny to watch the one that is brave enough to walk and balance on a 1 1/2 inch ABS hose that is in the water and coming up on the shore. Some food washes up against the hose and he walks out there and grabs it. He hasn't slipped and fallen into the water, yet!
 
RMStyler said:
I once threw a chunk of bloody ice from my trapping sled over my fence and within 30 seconds a magpie flew down to check it out. ....I have no idea where it came from.

I would 100 percent say that magpies direct yotes to dead animals with their noises more so than smell of the animal. Especially in the winter when the dead animal freezes and doesn't rot.

Lastly, you don't see yotes running around with their heads held up in the air trying to follow scent.
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I remember reading somewhere that not every magpie has a coyote, but every coyote has a magpie.
 
I have no reason to doubt that they could smell a deer carcass from a mile away. I've seen my dogs catch a coyotes scent from 500 yards away and seen them head straight to gut piles or cougar kills from 3/4 of a mile.
 
Adrian J Hare said:
I thought of this tread this morning - I'm setup on a field that I in my opinion is to large to call but I gave it try. Wind is blowing from my left as a cross wind. I start a set and in a few seconds a coyote comes over the rise well over 300+ yards towards my calling and then turns and starts going into the wind heading out in front of me still out there and the wind changes and the coyote turns and starts running away looking back. That coyote caught wind of me out over 300yds. End of hunt...
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I guess coyotes don't like Axe body wash the way women do in the commercials?! You may have to switch brands!! ;)
 
I don't think coyotes have any sense of smell at all...if they did, they could get a whiff of themselves and die of shame! :)

Incidentally, I have had yotes on my back deck several times. I never let my dogs out at night unattended, so when one of them had to go I always went along. I would snap on the outside light before opening the door...bingo! Yote right on the other side of the glass, sniffing around I suspect for crumbs from that day's barbecue. They've also on at least once occasion jumped up into the bed of the truck (tailgate closed!) when I had a deer in there.

Twodogs, you're shooting anything else that comes close to your pond. Why aren't you smoking any of these yotes? :)
 
jjohnwm said:
I don't think coyotes have any sense of smell at all...if they did, they could get a whiff of themselves and die of shame! :)

Incidentally, I have had yotes on my back deck several times. I never let my dogs out at night unattended, so when one of them had to go I always went along. I would snap on the outside light before opening the door...bingo! Yote right on the other side of the glass, sniffing around I suspect for crumbs from that day's barbecue. They've also on at least once occasion jumped up into the bed of the truck (tailgate closed!) when I had a deer in there.

Twodogs, you're shooting anything else that comes close to your pond. Why aren't you smoking any of these yotes? :)
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cuz ya never see 'em, only hear them, sometimes I shoot into space out the door in the darkness to make them scatter early in the morning. I use my night stick as it is by my side loaded and ready to rock! Outlaw 12 inch sxs 12 ga, dam thing hurts my hands/wrist, maybe cuz I'm shooting upwards!
 
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