He’s wrong. Eastern coyote’s are bigger and more aggressive than western coyote’s. They are part red wolf. We have some here that are as big as a German shepherd.
He did mention that they were so interbred with red wolves, especially over east, that they are almost indistinguishable genetically.
We are lucky here. We are a couple of block wide the no-man’s land between the coyote territory and the bobcat territory. Occaisionally one or the other shows up, but they tend to leave each other alone. The fox population seems to have a cohabitation agreement with bobcats.
I have to agree. Here in New Mexico they’re wiry little guys who stay pretty invisible.