A trail camera pointed at a pear tree has captured one of the internet's most talked-about wildlife clips of the week: a coyote repeatedly leaping into the air to pull a pear off a branch.

The footage was recorded around 3 a.m. and shared on Facebook by Tom Miranda, a professional bowhunter, trapper and television personality who ran an ESPN hunting series for more than 20 seasons, according to Yahoo. Miranda captioned the clip "Coyote eating pears!"

The video shows several coyotes near the tree at night, with one walking directly underneath and fixing its eyes on a piece of fruit. Pack outlets Fox News and Whiskey Riff both covered the clip as it spread across social media.

Yahoo's account of the footage reads like a slow-burn sports replay: the coyote's first leap fails, and it falls back to the ground without the pear, with a lower branch swaying as it lands.

Undeterred, the animal scans the tree, spots another target, and appears to understand it needs a new angle — it spins a 180-degree turn, steps right, crouches, and springs.

The second attempt connects: jaws close on the pear, the stem rips off the branch, and the trail camera picks up that sound plus the rattle of leaves as the loudest moment in the video.

The coyote lands on its feet, walks into the background, lays the pear down and starts eating it while another coyote approaches.

The clip itself is the story here: a nighttime trail-camera video captioned "Coyote eating pears!" posted to Facebook by Tom Miranda, whose social channels focus on hunting, wildlife and animal encounters.

Outlets describe the footage showing the fruitless first jump, the deliberate repositioning, and the successful leap ending with the unmistakable sound of a pear stem tearing free.

Whiskey Riff writes that it would comfortably file the footage in an "Entertaining Trail Cam Footage" folder, and suggests missing pears and coyote prints likely led someone to aim a camera at the tree. Commenters on the viral post called it the coolest game-cam video they had seen.

The surprise factor is real — many viewers reacted with comments like "Wow I didn't know they ate pears" and "Balanced diet. Good for them," per Whiskey Riff.

But Whiskey Riff cites the Forest Preserve District's breakdown of a coyote diet as roughly 43% small rodents, 23% fruit, 22% deer, 18% cottontail rabbits and 3% birds, meaning nearly a quarter of what coyotes eat can be fruit.

The Sunday Guardian adds that according to the National Park Service, coyotes inhabit deserts, grasslands, forests and urban areas, and commonly supplement rodents, rabbits and insects with berries and other fruits when available.

The pear-catching leap is consistent with that opportunistic feeding, though a single clip cannot establish how often this particular coyote eats fruit.

Whiskey Riff reports that coyotes have been observed jumping as high as 6 feet and are capable climbers, which is why an 8-foot fence is not truly "coyote-proof" — and the outlet argues the video shows they are precise leapers, not just high ones.

Fox News frames it as an "outrageous vertical lift" and says the footage comes from a green grass field in Western Washington State, a detail its outlets alone specify.

The Sunday Guardian, by contrast, cautions that the clip does not establish the height of the jump and that the jump distance and feeding frequency have not been independently verified. Readers should treat the athletic framing as the outlets' interpretation of a striking but unmeasured leap.

According to Yahoo, the clip has racked up nearly a million views on Facebook and more than 100,000 on Instagram in the last couple of days, and Fox News notes wildlife content like this keeps proving how unpredictable the genre is.

The Sunday Guardian points out the flip side of coyote admiration: farmers and rural residents deal with livestock and pet predation, so experts generally recommend securing livestock, supervising pets and avoiding deliberate feeding rather than indiscriminate removal, while coyotes help control rodents.

The Sunday Guardian also notes the species, Canis latrans, is native to North America and typically weighs 20 to 50 pounds per the Smithsonian's National Zoo. Expect more people checking their trail cams — and maybe eyeing their fruit trees — after this one.