Protections sought for coyotes in Mexican wolf territory

Members of the Mexican gray wolf recovery team gather data from a wolf captured during an annual census near Alpine, Ariz. A coalition of groups argue in a petition submitted Dec. 8 to U.S. Interior Secretary Deb Haaland and the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service that small statured Mexican gray wolves are often mistaken for coyotes and that protecting coyotes would in turn cutdown on wolf deaths. (Mark Davis/USFWS)