At night, a coyote stares up at a pear tree. Its first jump misses. It changes position, leaps again and plucks a pear directly from the branch with its mouth. Tom Miranda's trail-camera clip received renewed coverage between October 21 and 23, 2026. The joke writes itself: an animal known for hunting prey has become an unusually athletic produce shopper.
The second attempt makes the scene
Other coyotes are nearby, but one is focused on the fruit. After missing, it studies the branches, adjusts its angle, jumps, lands with the pear and begins eating. Whiskey Riff described the sequence on October 21; Know Your Meme covered it on October 23.
Our original joke: this customer didn't walk through the grocery store. It entered the produce shelf vertically. The first failed attempt was merely a navigation update.
Why are people discussing the price of meat?
Whiskey Riff relayed reactions from viewers surprised that coyotes eat pears, a remark praising the balanced diet, and a joke suggesting that meat prices had become so high that even coyotes were turning vegetarian. These are reactions reported by the publication, not comments independently retrieved from Facebook for this article.
The humor comes from assigning human shopping-budget anxieties to a wild animal's snack. Another line invented here: "Tonight's hunting report: no rabbits, one pear, excellent inventory control." It is editorial comedy, not an actual social-media quote.
Did the coyote become vegetarian?
No. The US National Park Service lists fruit and grass among the foods coyotes eat, alongside mammals, fish and insects. What surprises viewers is the jump, not the biology.
The original reel is traceable to Miranda's Facebook page. A separate source says the camera overlay shows September 25, but that display does not independently prove the recording date. October dates refer to renewed reporting.
Bottom line: the internet supplied the economic theory; the coyote supplied the athletic demonstration. It simply refused to leave a pear hanging. Enjoy wild animals from a distance rather than approaching or feeding them.
