What does it mean when a coyote/wolf makes a high pitched howl?

Is it like a war cry or what? I've been hearing a coyote or a wolf (I'm not too sure which one it is) making a high pitched howl for like 3 nights in a row. It drives me crazy! It howls at a certain time of the night and it doesn't sound like the type of howl they'll use when howling at the moon.

οικος2011-08-17T14:02:57Z

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It's a way of keeping a wolf pack together. A lost wolf will howl and the others will respond to let it know where the rest of the pack is. I had an afghan that would respond to wolf howls - - or to fire sirens. Not much fun when you were in the car with him at a light and a nearby siren went off.

Z.B.2011-08-16T19:33:47Z

If it's high pitched and interspersed with yips it is probably a coyote. That's how they communicate. It's calling to other coyotes. Sometimes you'll hear coyotes all over the area get each other going, it's a neat sound.

?2016-10-19T01:41:07Z

canines can no longer see shade, there fore there listening to is plenty extra recepitable. It in a nut shell hurts there ears subsequently they start to howl. Like take a siron as an occasion....its LOUD and to drown out the noise a possibility yet extra much less via fact it hurts sorta like a cry to make it end!