I saw a coyote out on the farm in a field where rice had recently been cut, in the late afternoon on a day in September this year. A brief sighting, and he or she was something like 200 yards away, heading into brush by the side of a dirt road and then into a patch of woods. You can hear coyotes yelping back and forth or all at once as a group every night, but seeing one is unusual. They have to be stealthy in order to stay alive, but they also have to eat. When humans have domestic animals in the area, these animals may become part of the coyote diet, resulting in the human-versus-coyote population dynamic. There's also the human-coyote-rabbit dynamic. No joking there, just multiplication versus subtraction to maintain a sort of equilibrium.
