• The coyote is a highly adaptable predator of North America.
• It has expanded its range thanks to humans.

American jackals inhabit various biomes including temperate grasslands with abundant grass and few trees, taiga with many coniferous trees such as spruce and pine, temperate coniferous forests with snow in winter, flooded meadows where water frequently covers the ground, and deserts with dry shrubs. The species occupies landscapes of land, highlands, tundra, ground forests, and scrub. They are found in areas experiencing hot steppes with very hot, dry summers and abundant grass, extremely dry conditions with infrequent rainfall, summers with almost no rain but more precipitation in winter, very hot summers above 25 to 30 degrees Celsius, and consistently wet conditions with nearly constant rain. The elevation of their habitat reaches up to 3 kilometers.