Poor habitat can make the impact of coyote predation more severe. In areas where the understory is browsed to the point of being open woods and in areas of older pole timber, the fawns who have very little in evasive skills have to rely on their instinct to be still. Coyotes can simply spot them easier with sparse cover.

Don't underestimate the bears though. the fawn mortality study actually put bears on an equal level when it comes to early fawn predation.