While residents have raised concerns about coyotes in Mountlake Terrace, Police Department’s Cmdr. Scott King has some simple advice: Leave them alone. Coyotes in North America have several names: the American jackal, prairie wolf or brush wolf. However, the ones found in Mountlake Terrace and other cities are known as urban coyotes. They live in American urban and suburban regions due to the lack of predators and the abundance of food – usually food discarded by humans. Although the coyotes live in metropolitan areas, they are far from the cosmopolitan canines we keep as pets.