Overall, there is no significant difference in the monthly conflict scores from January 2012 and December 2019 (Figure 14). Based on the type of reports made to the reporting database (encounters vs sightings), we cannot determine whether coyote boldness has changed over the past ten years, and further data collection is needed.
Figure 14. The trend in monthly conflict scores between January 2012 and December 2019. Monthly conflict scores were calculated by dividing the number of encounters by the number of sightings for each month. A conflict score greater than one indicates that more encounters occurred than sightings, which suggests that conflict was more prevalent. Shaded areas represent the standard error of the smoothed mean line.