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When it comes to rabies, I believe everyone is afraid to avoid it, but can you imagine a coyote with rabies standing in front of your house?
Recently, a foreign netizen posted a video to a social networking site, indicating that a rabies coyote stood in front of his home, as shown in the following figure:
From the picture above, it can be seen that the brown coyote is also trying to enter the house, and its mouth is showing its fangs, which looks very frightening.
Coyotes (pictured below), also known as steppe wolves or North American wolves, belong to the canine family, are close relatives of wolves, and are native to large areas of the North American continent, from Alaska in the north to Panama in the south, they generally hunt alone, and occasionally form small groups.
In recent years, there has been an increase in the number of cases of coyotes catching cats and dogs and even attacking humans in the suburbs of cities, and there have even been cases of attacks on hikers resulting in death.
You might be wondering, isn't rabies only for dogs and people?
This is not the case, according to Wikipedia, many mammals can also suffer from rabies, including cats, ferrets, raccoons, foxes, wolves and bears, which can cause severe encephalitis, and infected humans who are not immunized to the vaccine will almost inevitably die when neurological symptoms appear.
According to the data, rabies kills 26,000 to 55,000 people worldwide each year, most of the deaths are caused by dogs, and only Antarctica in the world does not have rabies.