My thoughts on this post:
If a coyote is so easily conditioned, wouldn't calling in the coyote for fun tend to make them less aggressive. Picture this- a coyote hears a dying rabbit, come to investigate, looking for a meal. There is none. He does it again the next week. again no meal. Since he is so intellectual, he would soon decide what is the use. He hears a baby crying in a basket floating down the river wrapped in reeds and says to himself "Self, I could go get that baby crying in the basket made of reeds but I think I will just sit here, it is probably another hoax played out by that stinky guy with all the pee mixtures again. I am not stupid enough to fall for that again"
Another scenario: two coyotes come in to a call. one dies on the spot and the other runs of to a far away location across the open field. He stops and looks back. The shooter decides to turn him to a pillar of salt for looking back. The distance is misread. Instead of turning to a pillar of salt, the coyote looses a front leg just below the knee joint. A couple weeks pass and the three legged coyote hears the same screams being emitted from the same tree in the same field. What would be this coyotes response?
I have had this happen on two occassions.
Another scenario: two guys sitting in a tree line and call in 4 coyotes. two died, two lived to tell all their friends not to fall for the screaming in that area due to a short expected life span. Exactly 7 days later, the same sounds are emitted from the same field just on the other side(app 150 yards) due to wind changes.
I realize these are not indicative of others results. After all I am in no mans land here. I am not western where all the coyotes come in to squealing brake shoes, and I am not eastern because I am 150 miles from the mighty Mississippi River the borderline of the highly evolved intelligent scholarly educated coyotes of the east. (that somehow have not figured out how yet to cross the river)
So here I sit wondering how a bunch of coyote hunters would rather argue inane scenarios than to take what they have learned and experienced and inform the new guys to these result. My way is not the only way. I kill coyotes in my area because "I Understand where they are AND I understand Why they are there"