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While coyotes can kill pets and livestock, like goats or calves, they are generally not dangerous to humans. Usually weighing between 30-45 pounds, coyotes are most active from dusk to dawn.
Coyotes usually attack smaller-sized dogs, but they have been known to attack even large, powerful breeds such as the Rottweiler in exceptional cases. [205] Dogs larger than coyotes, such as greyhounds, are generally able to drive them off and have been known to kill coyotes. [206] Smaller breeds are more likely to suffer injury or death. [188]
A stoat surplus killing chipmunks (Ernest Thompson Seton, 1909) Multiple sheep killed by a cougar. Surplus killing, also known as excessive killing, henhouse syndrome, [1] [2] or overkill, [3] is a common behavior exhibited by predators, in which they kill more prey than they can immediately eat and then they either cache or abandon the remainder.
A researcher studying the impact of coyotes in the city of Austin, Texas found that urban coyote management techniques, including steps to trap and remove coyotes who were exhibiting bold or aggressive behavior, as well as efforts to educate the public about not feeding the animals, had had a positive effect in lessening possible risk to humans or to pets. [14]
According to the city, coyotes’ natural habitat have decreased as the human population increased, resulting in the animals adjusting to living close to humans in parks and freeways.
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Coyotes and big cats have also been known to attack dogs. In particular, leopards are known to have a preference for dogs and have been recorded to kill and consume them, no matter their size. [158] Siberian tigers in the Amur river region have killed dogs in the middle of villages.
(The Center Square) – Colorado Parks and Wildlife officers and partner agencies plan to kill coyotes they find in northern Colorado Springs as they pursue a coyote that attacked a four-year-old ...