Humans are the coyote's greatest threat, followed by cougars and gray wolves. Its characteristic vocalization is a howl made by solitary individuals. Primarily carnivorous, its diet consists mainly of deer, rabbits, hares, rodents, birds, reptiles, amphibians, fish, and invertebrates, though it may also eat fruits and vegetables on occasion. It is highly flexible in social organization, living either in a family unit or in loosely knit packs of unrelated individuals. Their fur color is predominantly light gray and red or fulvous interspersed with black and white, though it varies somewhat with geography. The average male weighs 8 to 20 kg (18 to 44 lb) and the average female 7 to 18 kg (15 to 40 lb). The coyote was sighted in eastern Panama (across the Panama Canal from their home range) for the first time in 2013. The species is versatile, able to adapt to and expand into environments modified by humans urban coyotes are common in many cities. The coyote is listed as least concern by the International Union for Conservation of Nature, due to its wide distribution and abundance throughout North America. Other historical names for the species include the prairie wolf and the brush wolf. The coyote is larger and more predatory and was once referred to as the American jackal by a behavioral ecologist. It fills much of the same ecological niche as the golden jackal does in Eurasia.
It is smaller than its close relative, the wolf, and slightly smaller than the closely related eastern wolf and red wolf. The coyote ( Canis latrans) is a species of canine native to North America.
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