The answer is a generalist, able to be flexible in major dimensions of its niche. In addition, as coyotes extended their variety they also extended their set menu. As soon as omnivores restricted by the grassland fauna of rabbits, mice, and insects they now resourcefully consume the whole thing from small mammals and birds to livestock and animals, bounties and vegetables, meat and trash. Their environment has also extended to contain a collection of natural and social altered environments as well as the woodlands, the savannahs and the swamplands, the parks and the golf courses, the suburban backyards, and the urban expansions.