If you walk around your block and see a lot overgrown with weeds, or a wooded park, that's a coyote hunting ground. They often hunt in pairs, mated for life. They thrive in human communities and they're too smart to be exterminated.

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>Coyotes are killed by the thousands every year, particularly in Western ranching states such as Wyoming and Montana, but such measures are much less commonly employed in the Northeast.
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>The animals are likely to return to Nahant after the cull, said Elizabeth Magner, associate director of the MSPCA’s advocacy team.