3.2. Costly forms of damage
We observed a significant difference in the regional response of survey participants to the most costly form of damage caused by coyotes (Fisher’s exact test, P ¼ 0.026); the coastal region was similar with all regions (Fisher’s exact test, P 0.214), but the central and desert valley region was different from the mountain region (Fisher’s exact test, P ¼ 0.016) and the multi-region category (Fisher’s exact test, P ¼ 0.048). As such, we analyzed differences in responses separately among the coastal, valley, and mountain and multi-region category combined (Table 2). We found that in the
coastal (exact multinomial test, P ¼ 0.022) and combined mountain and multi-region category (exact multinomial test, P < 0.001), depredation of livestock was the primary form of damage (70% and 93%, respectively; Table 2). However, in the central and desert valley region, damage to irrigation structures and loss of irrigation