Coyote Populations

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Coyotes are a rising breed that don’t seem to ever be hurt in their populations.  This breed of animals adapts to different changes to their environment and doesn’t seem to be affected by changes outside or cities being built or anything.  They adapt to the environment so the population keeps rising and growing and stabilizing very good for years to come.  Although you wouldn’t think coyotes would like to be in cities or suburbs but people who live there could beg to differ. More and more coyotes are being seen all over the country even in big cities.

Over the years people have tried to kill many of the animals but that doesn’t hurt the population because they just bounce back with more force. People believe that these coyotes are a nuisance but if they were affecting the environment and the ecosystems that bad then some species of animal would be extinct because the affect of this animal.  Coyotes rule the northeast in the USA as the most dominate predator.  They have no animals hunting them and that is why they thrive as well as they do.

Coyote populations are thriving and so are many scrub bird populations.  In the southern drier states such as California or New Mexico  Coyotes are affecting the bird populations more then ever because when the coyote feeds it leaves behind lots of meat and that is where the scrub birds come in such as ravens or vultures to have a good meal.  Coyotes help many species of animals and that is just one example of the animals helping out.

When coyotes are found the carnivore population was decreased by 50% as if there weren’t any coyotes around there would be 50% more raccoons, red foxes, minks and other animals.  This population of animals helps more than you would believe because we as humans focus on what people or animals do wrong and not what they are doing right or what they are helping us with.  The coyotes help keep many populations of predators to squirrels and other small animals because where ever the coyotes are the less other predators there will be.

I don’t believe that the coyote populations will ever die out because they are such a extraordinary species.  This species has over come food shortages and people moving into there space or land but then they just adapt to there new habitat and live there life.  This species has thrived for hundreds of years and my bet and research says they aren’t going anywhere for awhile so we should think the best of them and thank them for what they do and not want to make them deceased. There populations help us more than they hurt us so we shouldn’t be so cruel about what we do to them.

  1. With all of the people coming to the United States and every body moving more and more into the country do you think the Coyotes will be able to stay as strong as there population is now?
  1. What kind of this do the Coyotes have to overcome on a yearly basis.
  1. If the coyotes have to keep moving farther out will they be able to keep there high population.

2 thoughts on “Coyote Populations

  1. I also agree with you, I think it is very crucial that the coyote population remains. I think without them the ecosystem would have some serious issues. I think with all the people coming into the states it will be hard for them to remain a steady population. I think we will see an increase of coyotes in urban areas. I found this article that talks about how coyotes are being affected by the population growth. It also mentions about how coyotes are effecting the community’s. http://researchnews.osu.edu/archive/urbcoyot.htm

  2. I agree that coyotes wont go anywhere as your research says. This is because there are not any animals that hunt coyotes. Its kind of cool to know that coyotes can adapt to live in cities and not just places out of town. Even though more people move and interfere with the coyotes habitat coyotes will still have a strong population. I found an article that shows how coyotes adapt to an environment where people live as well.

    http://www.actionbioscience.org/biodiversity/shivik.html

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