Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Coyotes have expanded across the United States. Davis Huber/500px via Getty Images Imagine a healthy forest, home to a variety of ...

Coyotes and wolves have long been cast as the villains of the wild. For centuries, they’ve been trapped, poisoned, and shot — not because of what science says, but because of old fears and folklore.

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