You may want to look up 'compensatory reproduction' just in case that question is aksed of you. When the population of coyotes takes a big hit one year then the next year the population becomes a 'boom', they will compensate for their losses.
Had a girl at ULM doing research on coyotes and I helped as much as possible. We would check the stomachs and you would be amazed at what was in there. Grasshoppers, beetles, persimmons, rats and rabbit hair. 90% of them had heartworms also. Some had so many heartworms it was amazing they were still alive.
'The wolf makes the elk strong' - Aldo Leopold
