If wolves and coyotes would live in one general area - would the wolf hunt the coyote?

As a matter of fact, wolves DO live in some of the general areas in which you find coyotes, and when they do there is one particular fact that you can etch in stone. They don't like each other much. One represents competition to the other and in the wild, only the strongest survive. Surely you have heard the expression: "Survival of the fittest.", right? That is why when wolves abound, the coyote numbers drop. When coyotes are abundant, fox numbers plummet. And so forth. Animal numbers fluctuate directly in relation to the numbers of other animals around them. When rabbits reach the top of their population cycle, the animals that feed upon them such as the fox, bobcats & lynx, etc. also peak out. When the numbers of rodents drop off, so will the numbers of the prey animals that feed upon them. Everything is relative to a balancing act that has been going on since the Garden of Eden. It's like one big continuous chain of links that bind one to the other. You can NOT take any one of the important links out of the chain without creating an impact. That's why man, the most important and integral link in the whole chain, cannot be taken out of the equation without dire consequences. We are hunters, just like the wolf and the coyote. The difference is that we have the knowledge and the experience to know how to maintain the balance, unlike the wolves and coyotes who kill all available to them and then just move on to another area (greener pastures?) in which there are still enough animals remaining to sustain them. Man is the ONLY animal who intentionally creates preserves, habitat, food plots, and sanctuaries especially for animals. He is the ONLY mammal on the planet that establishes and enforces rules and regulations that take the balance of populations into consideration in the process of determining seasons, shooting hours, bag limits, etc. When you see what a pack of wolves can do to a mountain habitat formerly occupied by a wild band of white Dall sheep, or see what coyotes did to the pronghorn antelope does in Northern California who where in the process of birthing and having new fawns literally dragged from their wombs before the fawns could even hit the ground, you would see why man works so hard to keep their numbers controlled and in more manageable numbers. When they control themselves, only the strongest survive and that means wolves kill coyotes...or coyotes kill fox....or fox.... Well, you get the picture. Right?

Yes.

The wolf is higher on the food chain than a coyote and a coyote is higher than a fox. And a wolf is larger than a 'yote and a 'yote is larger than a fox. So, the larger animal will have a dominate over the smaller one usually. It also depends on how large the wolf and coyote pack is. If the coyote pack is larger than the wolf pack or there's just one wolf, the wolf/wolves won't risk it. Animals have a sense like that. But, if there's less coyotes than there are wolves in an encounter, then they wolves will attack and kill a coyote/coyotes.

In Yellowstone, where there's a very healthy population of wolves and coyotes, it's known that the wolves will attack and kill a coyote. I'm sure it's like that where each is thriving in different places/states.

With the wolves and coyotes is similar to what happens around where I live with coyotes and foxes.

I am a long time Alaskan hunter and trapper.

As a general rule, you will not see wolves and coyotes share the same territory and grounds. They coyotes will leave, avoiding the wolves - because the wolves will decimate the coyote population if given a chance.

You will see fox and coyotes share a territory. Never coyote or wolves unless you discover both species in an area where their respective territories are on a shared border.

If you string a trap line for 100 miles you will not get a coyote in one trap and a wolf in the next. More like one section will have wolves, and, another section coyote. It's the fox and lynx you find sprinkled in.

Hope this helps.

Wolves do hunt coyotes. In yellowstone the coyotes follow the wolves to eat there scraps. So when the wolves see the coyotes they attack and kill them.

All good answers, but Dan B said it best.