Cape Cod, Massachusetts Coywolf(Eastern Coyote) biologist and our friend Jon Way conducted an extensive seven year(2001-2008) study on coyote density increasing as the result of the death of a breeding male in a given territory...................the result being that remnant members of the deceased males family unit and an adjacent territory family unit end up splitting the now fractured(by death) territory in two equal parts...........Each family unit adapting to a smaller "piece of the pie".................resulting in higher densities of coyotes in this particular locale....................Paving the way for even higher densities to come as breeding takes place and additional pups come into the world......................Bottom line is that policies by communities that involve killing coyotes as a means of controlling their populations virtually always leads to even more coyotes occupying a given region...................impossibly costly and inhumane to keep up the culling process ................best to leave the existing 4 to 6 member family units in a given territory intact and learn the rules of co-existance(no feeding of coyotes!)

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From: Jon Way [mailto:jw9802@yahoo.com] To: Meril, Rick
Subject: Coyote/Coywolf pack density doubling following death

I thought you might be interested in this peer reviewed paper that just came out. Many of us (and others) talk about how it is useless to kill coyotes to kill them, because they just come back in numbers (see Rye, NY situation). Here is some evidence that it is useless, some of the first quantitative data that I am aware of. It documents a pack doubling in density following a breeding male getting killed.
Enjoy.
Jon

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click on link below to read full article on coyote density increasing following death of breeding male

http://www.scribd.com/full/48198318?access_key=key-qr1ayxteb2ndxihcqnk
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