Show II r J v p pj M It 1 r 4 Coyote diet study made Two scientists with the Department of Zoology at the University of Arkansas have found that coyotes and wild dogs may be changing their diets in that state Stomach samples were taken from coyotes dog coyote-dog hybrids and wild dogs between July 1969 and February 1972 Although the study showed these wily animals to be eating less small domestic livestock poultry still made up 37 percent of the average di diet t. t IN DESCENDING order the llie next most common foods fonds were persimmons 21 p percent rodents nine percent song songbirds songbirds songbirds birds nine percent insects nine percent cattle eight percent deer seven deer seven percent rab rabbits its six percent woodchucks wood wood- woodchucks woodchucks chucks four percent goats three percent and watermelons watermelons watermelons water water- melons three percent |