Blue-eyed Coyote, Point Reyes National Seashore

I think I’ve seen “Blue Eyes” once or twice, but I never made a positive ID because I never got a close enough view of it.  As luck would have it, recently I did.  See the photos below.  The first image was taken at relatively close range.  The second photo is just a crop of the first image. It seems to have some damage to its left eye.

In the third photo the coyote was a bit farther away and it becomes harder at that distance to tell for sure if the eyes are blue.

Looking back at the blue-eyed coyote that I created in Photoshop a few days ago, I have to say that without having the real one as a reference, I came pretty close to the blue eyes of the real blue-eyed coyote.

There is some discussion of blue-eyed coyotes on the internet.

I hope you’ve read this far because this whole discussion of the coyote’s eyes made me realize something I never realized before. I think I’m right about this because I just went through all the bird and mammal eyes on my website and the human eye is totally different from the eyes of all those birds and animals. I didn’t find any bird or mammal with any part of the visible eye that was white. They were all either all black or they had black pupils inside irises that covered all of the rest of the visible portion of the eye. Our irises are tiny in comparison to theirs and most of the visible portion of our eyes are white. Why is that?  So, I googled it.  Here’s one explanation:  “Only humans obviously show the whites of their eyes, making it easier to communicate and deceive at a glance”.  For more click here.