GMAT Sentence Correction (SC) | Re: COYOTE

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The coyote is one of several recent ecological success stories: along with the white-tailed deer, the moose, and other species that are enlarging their natural domains,they have established themselves as supreme adapters in an era when the capability to adjust to the environmental