The verb that people most often associate with coyotes is “howl,” though it fails to capture Canis latrans’ vocal spectrum. Wolves howl. Coyotes also yip, squawk, whine, bray, bark, wail and croon. First one starts—motivated by changing barometric pressure or its neighbor’s insolent gaze or who knows what—and another joins in, and another, and soon a discordant chorus hollers …