Coyotes

yes a coyote is a desert animal.

Clarification:

Coyotes have adaptd to live in a variety of biomes, including deserts, grasslands, forests. They have even been sited in major cities, including New York City.

Coyotes will eat almost anything. They hunt rabbits, rodents, fish, frogs, and even deer. They also happily dine on insects, snakes, fruit, grass, and carrion. Because they sometimes kill lambs, calves, or other livestock, as well as pets, many ranchers and farmers regard them as destructive pests.

In the fall and winter, they form packs for more effective hunting.

Source: National Geographic

Sometimes wolves live in caves when they are having their offspring.

Normally, wolves live in dens, since they like to roam their whole territory in search of food.
It depends on their enviroment but I think they live in stone "huts" like caves, stone dens really.
They would if one was available, but usually dig dens out beneath fallen trees, or around boulders or other structure.

Coyotes are predators. Coyotes are also meat eaters. A coyote will eat a cat if they hunt and catch one.
YES - if coyotes are in the area, cats are at high risk of being eaten. They are a regular part of their diet, according to studies.

"Coyotes regularly feed on outdoor cats, according to a scientific study, Observations of Coyote-Cat Interactions by Shannon Grubbs of the University of Arizona and Paul Krausman of the University of Montana published in the Journal of Wildlife Management. The researchers tracked coyotes in Tucson, Arizona and observed 36 coyote-cat interactions, of which 19 resulted in coyotes killing cats.

Other studies have found that approximately 13% of a coyote's diet consists of cats. However, during this study, in the 45 instances when coyotes were observed feeding, 42% of the meals were cats. The researchers concluded that any cat outside is vulnerable to coyote attack, and recommended that cat owners keep their cats indoors"
Yes they do. KEEP YOUR CAT INSIDE AT ALL COSTS. Try calling local animal control they will try and catch it if you live in a more populated area they will not set any type of traps like box traps, foot traps, and stakes due to pets and children. But if you live in a rural area they will.

A coyote is an animal that comes from the canine family. They are often found in forests and mountains and are known for being excellent foragers.

Species name: coyotes

Latin Name: Canis latrans

Coyote English name: Coyote

Species Description: Coyote (scientific name Canis latrans), also known as prairie wolf, coyote in North America is a kind of canine is a dog, and wolves are close relatives. Coyote produced in large areas of the North American continent, north of Alaska, south to Panama. European explorers first discovered in the southwestern United States this animal. Coyote hunting in general alone occasionally formed small groups of 2-3. The average life expectancy is 6-10 years. Coyotes in English the word "coyote" borrowed from Mexican Spanish, originally from the local Aztec tribes. Rural wolf is the Americas most widely distributed of a canine animal, its tracks south from the southern tip of Panama, north to the United States and Canada, including Alaska and Canada's most northern parts of the province. Strong ability to adapt, forests, marshes, grasslands, pastures and plantations and even be able to see their presence. Because coyotes are not very afraid of humans, so the outskirts of town when coyotes are not infested. However, coyotes and wolves can not share the same piece of land.

Body features: coyotes fur varied, but in general is mixed brown and gray tones, the back coat and sometimes deep black, throat and abdomen light in color. Adult coyote weighs 7 to 20 kg, length 75 ~ 100 cm, tail is half the length. Tail root with scent glands. The proportion of head and body appear smaller than the fox, but larger than the wolf. It has upright ears and drooping tail, which is obviously different from dogs. Males than females on average. Some scholars believe that the wolf and the northeastern Cape Cod coyotes may be related to Red Wolf hybrid species (Parker 1995). Coyote can also work with the wolf or dog hybrid.

Propagation: late January to late March to mate, the spouse is not very fixed. Gestation period of 60 to 63 days, each child 1 to 19 cubs, with an average six cubs. Neonatal about 250 grams, then the weak and blind. When 10-day-old opened his eyes, weight gain, to 600 grams, beginning with the appearance of coyotes. 21 ~ 28 days old when they started out of the cave, 35 days following weaning will be able to roam around their parents. Small male Coyote 6 ~ 9 months old when his mother left, while the females usually stay in a family community and the mother. 12 months or so full-grown and reach sexual maturity. Sometimes coyotes and the wolf, domestic dog hybrid.

Habits: Coyote basically during the day before the activity, but the pressure by human activities, it is now mainly in the night-time haunt (McClennen, 2001). Coyotes life of about 10 years, raising the highest on record is 18 years. It is not as good as the wolf gregarious, hunting mostly independently, and sometimes small family co-operate. Mainly nocturnal, daytime activities. Will be digging their own, but prefer something for nothing and the American badger prairie dogs occupy the cave. Coyotes speeds of 65 km, hop can reach 4 meters away, will be swimming, but not good at climbing. With the howl of coyotes and odor convey information. Intirely carnivorous animals, food Jiucheng above mammals, but also eat birds, reptiles, amphibians and insects. Particularly fond of small rodents such as rabbits, ground squirrels and rats. Like fresh meat, but it is not taboo carrion. Similar in collaboration between the hunting of large prey, even co-operation, and the Americas badger hunt rodents.

According to an elevation in which the environment is different from coyotes or early in February at the end of a mate. Pregnancy an average of 63 days, a four to six births Aberdeen, was born in April end or early May. The public and the mother coyote coyotes are responsible for raising cubs. 3 weeks a large pups will be able to leave the parental care, 8-12 weeks to start learning when hunting. In the fall, coyote pups began to go out to find their own territory. The voices of coyotes is very easy to hear, but you want to witness a coyote not be so easy. Usually in the evening or night you can hear the calls of coyotes in the spring and autumn seasons estrus pups leave their parents in the two periods most likely to hear.

Food: The behavior of coyotes are related to their living environment, the difference is very great. Usually Coyote to communal living, but they hunt alone, mainly in rodents, carrion, insects for food, and sometimes kill sheep and fishes. Coyotes and deer in the symbiotic environment, adult coyotes often catch a deer every year Aberdeen. Comparison of mixed feeding habits of coyotes, in addition to eat meat outside, sometimes eat fruit, grass, vegetables. Natural enemies of coyotes are wolves, bears and cougars. The coyotes will attack a smaller dog than its related species, such as foxes and even dogs.

Natural enemies: human, wolf, bear and cougar will kill coyotes, the latter two will be killed by coyotes cub. Coyote in the food chain play an important role in inhibiting expansion of a small number of animals. However, it is also the host of rabies, one of the farmers that it would cause a certain threat to livestock and poultry, it also compete for prey and the hunter. People hunting coyotes, with its fur coat wolf fur in the United States a suburb about 17 dollars. Humans are the biggest enemy of coyotes.

Distribution: the wolf is a canine predator in North America, body and domesticated the shepherd similar. More than 200 years ago, their activities in the region is also limited to the U.S. Northwest, but now extended to almost the entire North America. Coyote small predators than wolves in North America, widely distributed, and four kinds of the Jackal distributed throughout Africa, the Middle East, and India. Close kinship of these species and their chromosome numbers equal to each other mating breeding. Golden jackal and the coyote hunt similar. They hunted alone or in pairs. Wolves than coyotes or jackals like to live in groups, these characteristics remind us: they are all of today's dog breeding material.

Coyote has the typical characteristics of good at capturing opportunities. When the U.S. mainland has been a large number of hunting wolves, when coyotes north from the Great Plains eastward. Now, from the high terrain in Alaska, from the Pacific coast to Canada and the United States in Central New England has a coyote. Black-backed jackal, golden-backed Jackal, side profile Jackal Ethiopian Jackal live in the whole of Africa. From Burma to the Balkans, are distributed with gold-backed Jackal. Coyotes, jackals and wolves can be with the dogs to mate, so they can cross each other.