Guy's , in my area the coyote has been relentlessly hunted for several generations of sheep ranchers and yet there are coyote to be hunted . They have adapted to all the ways that people have tried to eliminate them . We have a lot of coyote that will not eat on anything that they didn't kill if it has any human scent on or around it . The use of poisoned bait stations was banned by Nixon in 1972 but yet to this day there are coyote that know not to eat human offerings . The government said that if you see one figure that there are 10 more that you don't see in most areas . Myself personally I like to read the tracks and let them tell me what the numbers are in an area . Coyote are gifted with four paw drive and will use it to it's max some of them can be tagged and will die within 1.5 miles of where they were tagged as pups in the den . Still others will travel long distances . In the 70's a coyote pup was tagged in Montana and a couple of years latter it was killed in Kansas . I have taken coyote that I'm sure had traveled into my area from South Dakota when they had a long cold spell and deep snow while we had a mild winter , granted that is only a couple of hundred miles . When it's mating season they are kind of like young men they will go far to find a girlfriend . When we have an opening for a good job we will move to take it so will they it's just that their job isn't to make money but to live with the least amount of energy expended . So now we have some good place to raise grain here in my area that means that there is a good food base for the coyote to utilize , mice , rabbits , antelope , deer and yes some livestock . but out of that valley there aren't any good farming areas maybe it's only 10 - 30 miles away so when we make an opening in the good areas the coyote being the vocal type listen to the others talking and they don't hear from the ones that used to proclaim their ownership of that area for a few nights , normally after we have called it a day and gone home to watch the news or what ever it is we do when the sun sets , they will go over to see what's going on and low and behold find no body home so they hunt and find that they can fill their bellies easier here then back home . So a shift starts to take place and they stay in the new area and begin to proclaim it theirs leaving an opening to be filled where they came from which another coyote soon fills . It may come from an area that has too many coyote for the given food base to carry or it may be one of the pups from last spring that didn't leave home quit yet . So we can see that like when we throw a stone in a lake there is a ripple effect when we kill a coyote there will be a series of coyote movement by the mobile coyote . In the past there were studies done by others then myself that said they figured that 70 percent of a given years pups would need to be taken just to keep the coyote numbers even .
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