Thus, the careful observer who is lucky enough to actually witness the act of predation in the wild often comes away with the impression that the predators are decimating their prey. We have used coyotes as an example in the paragraphs above because there are so many emotional prejudices about them. Equally diverse views are held about many other predators. The views differ, according to our personal experiences. Like most predators, coyotes are opportunists.
Individuals differ in what they eat and in how they act.
Leaving morals out of it, individual animals vary in habits and actions just as humans do. Some are desirable to have around, others are hardly noticed and still others are downright bothersome. It makes no more sense to manage all of the Individuals of a species in the same way than it would to treat all people in the same way. Killing predators or modifying the environment in order to control damages sometimes becomes necessary, but it is even more important to remember that most natural predators are valuable to us. Predation is one of the fundamental natural laws.