The cayotes tend to pose for cameras when vehicles stop, because tourists sometimes chuck them food from their cars. Hence in cayote's brain, stopped car = food. Presumably striking a dramatic pose earns him more. Our driver / guide also nattered on about the three times he had spotted bear in Yosemite park, in his twenty year career, including the time he had everyone craning their necks to spot the maybe-bear hidden far away in a bush, when he almost ran down the bear sitting in the middle of the road which he uh hadn't noticed. Heh.