BANGOR DAILY NEWS • April 21, 2024
A coyote howls for a couple of major reasons. One is territorial, telling other coyotes that it’s staking out some turf and warning them to stay away. The other is to communicate with its family. In this video, courtesy of Dan Worcester, you can hear other coyotes answer the one featured here. Coyotes live in families that include a breeding male and female and whatever offspring have not ventured on their own, according to the Maine Department of Inland Fisheries and Wildlife. Sometimes the male and female are mated for life and pup litters average four. Maine manages the eastern coyote as a furbearer that can be hunted or trapped.