Answer:
food
Step-by-step explanation:
The transitive verb is a verb that expresses a doable activity, like kick, hit, hunt, do, and it has a direct object, that is how you recognize it, a direct object to whom the action is directed, for example:
Mary is painting the wal.
The wall is the direct object since it is what is receiving the action.
In the question the direct object would be food, since it is what is being hunted by the coyotes.