Coyote Wolf hybred?

Jetjock said:
Anyone here actually seen/shot what is being called a Coywolf? Apparently they are thriving and able to reproduce. Fact or fiction?
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As for a timber wolf/coyote hybrid, until someone shoots one and has it DNA tested, or a pair is successfully bred in captivity, then its 100% fiction.
 
farmer47 said:
i have seen some large coyotes here in south western ont. possibly as large as fifty pounds but they all had the narrow coyote head .i picked up a large male that had been road killed about twenty years ago and dropped him off at a local fur skinner and this animal was broader in the head than any coyote i ever saw but about the fifty pound mark again and no were near wolf size . this is the only road killed coyote i have ever seen as they do not get hit by cars that i know of .
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They certainly get hit by cars, seens some 15ft ling skid marks in the 401 with a yote at the other end of it.
 
The grey wolf and red wolf( which the eastern coyote possesses DNA from) are significantly smaller in stature than a full grow timber wolf. Easterner's don't possessed timber wolf dna . That's a good thing as they are already a formidable predator. Some biologists call them a " super predator".
 
Out here in the bald prairie in the winter of 1999/2000 I shot a coyote that was chasing a white tail doe past me and it weighed 68 lbs on the local co-op's propane scale. It was just a huge coyote with absolutely no resemblance to a wolf. I kinda think coyotes get big and some wolves don't. A year or two after that some guy from far away entered our local coyote derby and shot on that weighed within a pound or two of mine.
 
Calling them coywolves is just playing into the hands of the anti hunters. Look what has happened in Central Ontario with the "NEW" Algonquin wolf being on the endangered list. There are coyotes and Gray Wolves in Ontario this "NEW" wolf is a coyote wolf hybrid that has been around for many years.
 
Here's the biggest I've ever shot in Ontario. Weighted 56lbs and just looked different than any other coyote I've shot. No idea what it is mixed with. Came into the box call and turkey decoy. I was seeing a lot of turkey kills in the bush. 45 seconds of calling he came flying out of the bush straight at the decoy. .223 put him down at 75 yards

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The question is what % of any coyote is wolf and what % of each wolf is coyote. They've been interbreeding forever. Up a the wolf centre in Haliburton Forest there are several (dead) on display who have been genetically analyzed, and even the biggest and baddest wolves had a reasonable amount of coyote DNA.

Quote: Coywolf (sometimes called woyote) is an informal term for a canid hybrid descended from coyotes and gray wolves. Hybridization between the two species is facilitated by the fact that they diverged relatively recently (around 6,000–117,000 years ago). Genomic studies indicate that nearly all North American gray wolf populations possess some degree of admixture with coyotes following a geographic cline, with the lowest levels occurring in Alaska, but the highest in Ontario and Quebec as well as Atlantic Canada.[1]
 
These lil stories are great fun to tell, like fishing stories but better.
Around here it's " The Rattlesnakes are breeding with the Bullsnakes now. A poisonous snake that doesn't rattle!" Informing them that one species berth's it's young alive and the other lays eggs gets a blank look...and you know they are gonna keep telling the story as soon as you are not present.
So run with it, announce that the new species has Dew Claws like lobster pincers and can climb trees faster than a squirrel.
Happy New Year
 
tokguy said:
These lil stories are great fun to tell, like fishing stories but better.
Around here it's " The Rattlesnakes are breeding with the Bullsnakes now. A poisonous snake that doesn't rattle!" Informing them that one species berth's it's young alive and the other lays eggs gets a blank look...and you know they are gonna keep telling the story as soon as you are not present.
So run with it, announce that the new species has Dew Claws like lobster pincers and can climb trees faster than a squirrel.
Happy New Year
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Haha! I've heard that one too.

Every year at least half a dozen hunters in my area shoot a hybrid deer.

The DNR is releasing cougars.

A Moose/elk hybrid was shot this year in Wyoming. Didn't you see it on facebook?
 
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