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Lamar A. Windberg, Steven M. Ebbert, Brian T. Kelly, Population Characteristics of Coyotes (Canis latrans) in the Northern Chihuahuan Desert of New Mexico, The American Midland Naturalist, Vol. 138, No. 1 (Jul., 1997), pp. 197-207
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