Since we are talking about coyotes, I'll throw this into the mix. I went on a moose hunt in Newfoundland this past October. We talked alot with our guides and covered all kinds of subjects. They were telling us about the problems they have with coyotes. They have NO deer in Newfoundland, so instead, the yotes go after caribou. They chase the caribou and bite at the tendons on the back legs. The problem is, that before they finish off the first caibou, they go after another, then another, because they're so many there together.They end up killing several. The ones that were attacked initially, eventually die from their cripplingwounds. The guides insist that the yotes kill for fun also and don't eat all that they kill. The coyotes take a huge toll on calves butalso kill full grown caribou too. They really hate them up there. They even want wolves to be stocked to help control coyote populations. I ask them, aren't they worried that the wolves would take a toll on the caribou and moose, and their reply was, " Wolves eat what they kill and kill only enough to survive. The coyotes cripple so many for the one they do killand the wolveswill kill the coyotes because they are a competing predator."
Here's the funny part. The same rumors we hear about coyotes being stocked here to control deer populations, go on up there, about yotes being stocked to lower caribou populations.Funny, huh?Our guides don't believe they were stocked but they do wonder why all of a sudden there is an explosion ofthe coyote population. They saida couple years ago there weren't any coyotes.