SAVANNAH, Ga. (WSAV) — A new study has discovered that coyote populations across the Southeast can bounce back faster than they can be reduced and different methods may be needed to curb their rising populations.

Coyotes were first documented in portions of the eastern United States in the early and mid 1920s, but appeared in Georgia in the 1970s, according to a new University of Georgia (UGA) study and the Atlanta Coyote Project.

The researchers relied on data from cameras, howl surveys and scat, or fecal dropping surveys and samples to quantify coyotes per square mile in the United States Department of Energy's Savannah River Site (SRS) in South Carolina. The study spanned information from the past 18-years.

They found that there was more than one coyote per every square mile, with be

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