N80
Super Member
I don't think you can draw any conclusions by comparing coyotes with wolves. As mentioned, Ivory Bill and Pileated woodpeckers look alike and share the same range and requirements for food. One is extinct. One is thriving. The one that is extinct is extinct because of its behavioral needs, not physiologic. I suspect the same is true with wolves. Ivory Bills required huge expanses of land for courtship and territorial reasons so there were never as many per square mile. Likewise, wolf numbers were probably never anywhere near coyote numbers.
The point that we could wipe out coyotes probably isn't relative. It might be a possibility, but it is a tremendous improbability.
The point that we could wipe out coyotes probably isn't relative. It might be a possibility, but it is a tremendous improbability.