Coyotes are highly social and communicate using a complex mix of yips, howls, and barks. The result? The unmistakable, spine-tingling coyote chorus you hear at night.” “Eerie” howls heard at ...

Calen Moore of the Kansas News Service reports. (SOUNDBITE OF COYOTES HOWLING) CALEN MOORE, BYLINE: It's around midnight in rural southwest Kansas. David Hampton stands in a field scanning the ...

“Eerie” howls heard at night in Virginia’s Occoquan Bay National Wildlife Refuge are coming from groups of coyotes, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service says. Larry Brooks/USFWS photo A chorus ...

Human activity like cutting down forests and pushing out predators have allowed coyotes to thrive across the Great Plains. Agriculture sectors worry about losing livestock to coyotes.