Coyote Facts Coloring Sheet

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Coyote Facts for Kids

Today we’re exploring a creature I love to see in the wild: the coyote. Maybe you’ve felt curious when you’ve seen one… or maybe a little afraid. Learning how God designed coyotes helps us trade fear for understanding—and wonder.

Coyotes on Ice

My family lives by a small lake that freezes over in winter. One early morning, just as the sun was rising, I looked out and saw three young coyote pups playing on the ice—chasing each other like a slippery game of tag. Another time, we watched two adult coyotes calmly walk across a frozen pond to the other side. So, no, coyotes don’t lace up skates—but they’re surprisingly comfortable on ice.

Coyotes are at home in many habitats. They live across North and Central America—from as far south as Panama to as far north as Alaska and Canada. God designed them to find food, shelter, and raise young in very different conditions.

A coyote is a wild dog in the Canidae family, which includes wolves, jackals, foxes, coyotes, and domestic dogs. And just like dogs, their babies are called pups.

How Coyotes Raise Their Pups

Coyotes are often monogamous, meaning a male and female pair for life and raise pups together year after year (they usually find a new mate only if one dies). In spring they mate, and about two months later the female gives birth underground in a quiet den. A litter is commonly 3–7 pups, though larger litters have been recorded.

Newborn pups are blind and entirely dependent. The mother stays with them to nurse and keep them warm while the father hunts and brings back food. Coyotes feed their young in a way that might sound a little bird-like: when a parent returns from hunting, it regurgitates food—bringing it back up from the stomach—so pups can eat it soft and prepped for their developing teeth. This helps with weaning as they shift from milk to solids.

Around three weeks old, curiosity nudges pups to the den’s entrance. As they grow, they spend more time outside, but stay close. Around ten weeks, they begin following their parents to learn hunting—starting with insects like grasshoppers, then small mammals like mice, later squirrels or rabbits. By late summer or early fall, most pups are ready to head out on their own. In some western areas, females may stay longer and help care for the next litter.

Are Coyotes Good or Bad?

Coyotes can frustrate farmers by taking chickens, ducks, or even young livestock. But coyotes don’t know right from wrong; they’re simply trying to survive and feed their families. Even so, they can be a blessing—coyotes are a biological control, helping keep populations of rodents and other small animals in balance without traps or chemicals.

God called the wild animals good. Genesis 1:24–25 tells us God made the tame animals, the small crawling animals, and the wild animals—and “God saw that this was good.” We can still see that goodness in the way coyote parents care for their young and in how coyotes help balance nature.

How We Know Right from Wrong

Coyotes don’t carry moral responsibility—but people do. God made humans in his image, able to understand right and wrong and choose what is good. Micah 6:8 says,

“The Lord has told you, human, what is good; he has told you what he wants from you: to do what is right to other people, love being kind to others, and live humbly, obeying your God.”

C. S. Lewis once wrote that no one calls a line crooked unless they first know what a straight line is. In the same way, we recognize wrong because God shows us what is right—through his Word and by his Spirit.

Let’s close with a prayer from Psalm 25:4–5:

“Lord, tell me your ways.
Show me how to live.
Guide me in your truth,
and teach me, my God, my Savior.
I trust you all day long.” Amen.