[Jeff Higgins]

I used to hunt coyotes for their pelts. By the time I had given it up due to plummeting prices, I had lost track of how many I had killed. A couple hundred at least.

In order to excel at this game, one must learn to speak the language. Barking is very much a part of that language. The classic call imitates a dying rabbit, of course, but in hard hunted areas, coyotes soon learn to be extremely cautious about "dying rabbits". That is when one must change tactics and rather than sound like prey, sound like predator - sound like a coyote. They are very social animals. Learning their own distress calls, their "come on" calls, their challenges, their locating calls, and all of that will make one successful where the "rabbit callers" fail.

So, yes, they do "bark", kind of. But not like a domestic dog - it's not an alert or a challenge. It's a greeting, or a "gather 'em up" rallying cry, or a "whose there?" kind of thing. It works great when you know they are about, and want them to come in closer and show themselves. It's very disarming to them, so they get a little less cautious. Which is what we want...