Coyotes can be conditioned to dislike the taste of sheep through a process called conditioned taste aversion (CTA). CTA works by giving coyotes lithium chloride laced bait, which causes them to experience illness and vomiting. Their brain associates the taste of the bait with the negative effects, so they learn to avoid similar tastes like sheep in the future.

1. Can coyotes be conditioned
to not like the taste of
sheep?

2. CTA
(Conditioned Taste
Aversion)

3. The Brain Stem
www.rainbowrehab.com/ news/articles/bbstem.shtml

4. Nerve messages are sent from
the tongue to the Medulla of
the Brain Stem
Nerve messages are sent from
the Brain Stem to an area
beneath the forebrain and from
there the messages go to the
Primary Somatic Sensory
Cortex.
It is in the Primary Somatic Sensory
Cortex where taste is detected.
biology.clc.uc.edu/ courses/bio105/nervous.htm

5. Lithium Chloride laced bait is set out for
the coyotes to eat. The coyote then
experiences short term digestive illness
and vomiting.
http://www.entm.purdue.edu/wildlife/coyote_pictures.htm

6. beerpictures.net/

8. Can coyotes be conditioned
to not like the taste of
sheep?

9. CTA
(Conditioned Taste
Aversion)

10. The Brain Stem
www.rainbowrehab.com/ news/articles/bbstem.shtml

11. Nerve messages are sent from
the tongue to the Medulla of
the Brain Stem
Nerve messages are sent from
the Brain Stem to an area
beneath the forebrain and from
there the messages go to the
Primary Somatic Sensory
Cortex.
It is in the Primary Somatic Sensory
Cortex where taste is detected.
biology.clc.uc.edu/ courses/bio105/nervous.htm

12. Lithium Chloride laced bait is set out for
the coyotes to eat. The coyote then
experiences short term digestive illness
and vomiting.
http://www.entm.purdue.edu/wildlife/coyote_pictures.htm

13. beerpictures.net/