Locating coyotes by howling (different locations)

[thrstyunderwater]

I literally just did this and am posting from my iPhone on a mountain top. If you don't know me I'm trapping coyotes for my graduate work currently, so I want them alive. No snares, no getterz, and no shooting.

I just howled twice this morning (by mouth). Once was from a peak I accessed from the back of the basin, coyotes in the valley/basin couldn't have heard me coming or saw my truck. I called and nothing, no barks or howls back. This is about 8am.

I decide to drive to my normal calling spot to another peak and call, a location I've had luck with before. I drive through the valley in plain sight of every yote in the valley and up the side of the mountain and call again, at 8:30. This time all sort of yotes answer back! Why is this?

I can only think its either the exact location I'm calling from or the distance from the coyotes? Thoughts?

[trappincoyotes39]

could be various factors distance to coyotes, your location to them, the mood of coyotes etc. I do know some of the studies done on howling showed that many family groups along a drainage will answer just plenty of those you never hear due to distance away from them.

One study had 3 guys spaced out along a drianage the guy in the middle did the locating each of the other 2 spread out by so many miles had coyotes answer the guy in the middle never could hear. They where using amplified sound gathers if I remember. The man in the middle started the chain reaction along this drainage. Like dominos, his coyotes started all the others to go.