Here is an excerpt from the PA game commissions fawn mortality study. They captured and collared numerous fawns and then monitored them over a period of time. This table shows the number of fawns killed in each week following their capture. You can see that while the fawns are very young it's bear that are the primary predator but that coyotes seem to hunt them until they are much older which equals out the total number of fawns killed by each. In this study bears took 16 and coyotes took 18. However, in the first six weeks post release the bears had killed 15 to the yotes 11. It's safe to assume that both bear and coyotes are pretty equal when it comes to fawn predation. Bobcats on the other hand killed three of the captured fawns.
