There must be a different species of coyote than the ones we have as our state animal here in South Dakota
Actually people have come to believe there is a new breed of coyotes called the eastern coyote. The idea is they have crossbred with wolves making them bigger and more aggressive than what is now called a western coyote, which is the traditional coyote. It is said by some that eastern coyotes are a lot more apt to attack humans than the western coyote. Most of this information has some proof behind it apparently. The thing about coyote attacks on humans is that both species have increased their attacks on humans with California being the state with the most recorded attacks. They only have the western coyotes there. With the expanding populations of the coyotes and the loss of habitat they come in contact with humans more and the PC, animal rights types actually feed the critters. In the past rural wackos (as we would be described by city folk) hunted and harassed coyotes nearly to extinction giving them a healthy fear of humans. They are losing that fear because of the fact that harassing any animal is severely frowned on not just by the public in general but by government types too.
The place I lived up until a few months ago was infested with the critters and no one seemed to care. They would circle the 10 acres I lived on all night long. There must have been about 20 of them. They would come within maybe 100 yards of my house when they circled by which made me fear for my pets not to mention my wife getting into the car to go to work in the morning. I intended to try to shoot some of them but there were too many houses in the area to safely shoot at them with a long range rifle. I would have had to try to get close to them and that isn't easy. The only good way I would have had to shoot them would have been to sit in an upstairs room with the window open and shoot at them from about 250 yards. The thing about that is it can be really hard on the hearing.
I've only seen one coyote where I live now and I actually had him in my crosshairs but I didn't have any ammo in the rifle at the time. I was adjusting the AO on the scope to shoot that coyote over the leftover Thanksgiving turkey I had left out as bait. The thing showed up within 5 minutes of me baiting him. But I haven't seen him since then and I've only heard coyotes a few times since and they weren't that close. I watch for that sucker every day too. I'll get a shot at him some day. I need to bait him again I guess.