Coyote Peterson is a popular YouTube personality and host of ‘Coyote Peterson: Brave the Wild,’ the popular American Planet Series. His real name is Nathaniel Peterson and is known for taking risks while shooting with wildlife. He has been stung and bitten many times, including the famous incident of the bullet ant.
Coyote Peterson started posting YouTube videos for his channel ‘ Brave Wilderness’ in 2014. The series ‘Breaking Trail’ won him an Emmy Award in 2015. The other series on his channel include ‘On Location’, ‘Beyond the Title’ ‘Dragon Tails’ and ‘Coyote’s Backyard’. The Brave Wilderness Channel as of May 2021 has 18.7 million subscribers.
On November 2018, The Brave Wilderness Channel announced that it would be teaming with up with Animal Planet to create a program for the TV Channel called ‘Coyote Peterson – Brave the Wild’; the show commenced on February 9, 2020.
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Coyote Peterson – Wife and Children
Coyote Peterson’s wife’s name is not available in public. We don’t know if he is separated from her, but he has 11 year old daughter as on 2021 called, Olivia Pup Peterson.
Coyote Peterson – Net Worth and Salary
Coyote Peterson draws an income of close to $1.5 million per year from his YouTube channel. His revenue from Animal Planet channel is additional and based on a confidential contract. Coyote Peterson’s net worth is close to $3 million.
How did Coyote Peterson start his YouTube Channel ?
In the spring season of 2009 at age 28, Nathaniel Peterson went with his one-year-old daughter to a botanical garden in Cleveland. He was catching some frogs and showing it to his kid, when other children came to look for frogs. At that the time, he saw a snapping turtle at the bottom of the pond. He dove in, came back up with the snapping turtle and showed them the beauty and features of the turtle, much to the amusement and interest of the spectators, as his girlfriend and others kept clicking away.
Coyote Peterson who was already working on a movie project, then decided to make a reptile show on YouTube, which became Breaking Trail and then rechristened as Brave Wilderness. It was the right time, because apart from Man vs Wild, there was no show on presenting animals and wildlife. Steve Irwin had passed away and Jeff Corwin had transitioned into making cooking shows.
As the show became successful, a couple of partners got involved and with more funding, the show became more popular and stronger with the audiences.
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