The coyote has overflowed the desert and taken to the streets. The coyote has been sighted in New York City. The coyote has got survival down. Well, yes, yes and double yes. A biologist would probably point out a few obvious reasons for the hardy proliferation of this family.
Coyotes breed each winter and give birth in the spring to substantial litters of four to six pups.
Pickiness leads to extinction. Perhaps the strongest factor in the coyote's ability to populate our slice of the globe is his omnivorous appetite. The coyote likes to eat just about everything that isn't nailed down. Leaving hard science far behind for a minute, there are other, less quantifiable reasons why the coyote survives and fires the cosmological rockets of indigenous peoples throughout the American West. With apologies to ranchers and farmers, the coyote has soul.