--- title: Coyote and Badger Become Best Buddies in Gift of a Video description: In footage that was captured by a wildlife camera, a coyote and badger can be seen traveling together under a Bay Area highway. canonical: https://time.com/5779873/coyote-badger-video/ author: Megan McCluskey article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2020-02-07T16:08:10.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-04-13T08:01:16.688Z og:title: Coyote and Badger Become Best Buddies in Gift of a Video og:description: "Let me tell you 'bout my best friend" og:url: https://time.com/5779873/coyote-badger-video/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blta1c2a93b3e7f58e6/698a09eb97cdff78a66ba4ba/Coyote-Badger-Video.jpg?branch=production&width=1080&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: Coyote-Badger-Video og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Coyote and Badger Become Best Buddies in Gift of a Video twitter:description: "Let me tell you 'bout my best friend" twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blta1c2a93b3e7f58e6/698a09eb97cdff78a66ba4ba/Coyote-Badger-Video.jpg?branch=production&width=1080&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # Witness a Coyote and Badger Become Best Buddies Thanks to This Gift of a Video  by [Megan McCluskey](https://time.com/author/megan-mccluskey/)  ## Megan McCluskey Staff Writer Feb 7, 2020 4:08 PM UTC  Badger took umbrage to coyote digging it's den up. Badger took umbrage to coyote digging it's den up.Getty Images  by [Megan McCluskey](https://time.com/author/megan-mccluskey/)  ## Megan McCluskey Staff Writer Feb 7, 2020 4:08 PM UTC First, there was [the fox and the hound](http://content.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,954873,00.html). Now, there’s the [coyote](https://time.com/5656480/chicago-coyote-pup/) and the [badger.](https://newsfeed.time.com/2014/02/19/a-brief-history-of-the-honey-badger-meme/) In footage that was captured by a wildlife camera set up by environmental conservation organization [Peninsula Open Space Trust (POST)](https://openspacetrust.org/), a coyote and badger who appear to be palling around can be seen traveling together through a culvert under a Bay Area highway. Neal Sharma, POST’s wildlife linkages program manager, told [CNN](https://www.cnn.com/2020/02/05/us/coyote-badger-hunt-together-trnd/index.html) that POST believes this is the first time that this type of behavior has been observed in the Bay Area. “Having that interaction on film and seeing how these two different animals that lead different lives, how they interact, it’s just so exciting,” Sharma said. > [](https://twitter.com/PeccaryNotPig/status/1224515892282740737) The video took off after it was shared on Twitter on Monday by user Russ McSpadden, earning over 771,000 likes and 183,000 retweets as of Friday morning. It even got a shoutout from Captain America himself, Chris Evans. “I’m choosing to believe that the coyote sounds like Michael J. Fox and the badger sounds like Sam Elliot and they’re best friends on an adventure,” Evans wrote. > [](https://twitter.com/ChrisEvans/status/1224741068538703872) ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/5779873/coyote-badger-video/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/5779873/coyote-badger-video/"},"headline":"Witness a Coyote and Badger Become Best Buddies Thanks to This Gift of a Video","datePublished":"2020-02-07T16:08:10.000Z","dateModified":"2026-04-13T08:01:16.688Z","description":"\"Let me tell you 'bout my best friend\"","url":"https://time.com/5779873/coyote-badger-video/","keywords":["Newsfeed","animals","onetime","clickmonsters"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blta1c2a93b3e7f58e6/698a09eb97cdff78a66ba4ba/Coyote-Badger-Video.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Megan McCluskey","jobTitle":"Staff Writer","url":"https://time.com/author/megan-mccluskey/"}],"articleSection":"","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blta1c2a93b3e7f58e6/698a09eb97cdff78a66ba4ba/Coyote-Badger-Video.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"Coyote-Badger-Video","caption":"Coyote hunting","creditText":"Getty Images","representativeOfPage":true}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/tag/time-section-newsfeed/","name":"Newsfeed"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/5779873/coyote-badger-video/","name":"Witness a Coyote and Badger Become Best Buddies Thanks to This Gift of a Video"}}]}] ```