The first couple of days in Yellowstone National Park last week were pretty chilly — it was minus 26 on Monday and minus 16 the day I took this photograph. Temperatures were relative because different parts of the park registered different temperatures, some even colder. Suffice it to say that the temperatures were cold enough that the breath of this Coyote showed while it was poised on the ridge behind us, slightly backlit, as it did reconnaissance of the kill site where the day before members of the Wapiti Lake Pack had taken down a Bison cow. Coyotes come to the kill after the wolves have finished. At the time, there were still a couple of wolves gnawing on what was left of the carcass, and most of the rest of the pack were still in the area, the older wolves lazing in the snow, the younger wolves romping around them.