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[fingers284]

That is unquestionably coyote chewed off hide.

You could bet, but you’d lose. Coyotes take hide off down to where the meat stops on a deer, and deer shins don’t have a lot of steaks on them.

Typical of what deer legs look like after having been eaten by coyotes.

Thats where I cut....for the same reason you offer up.

 

[New Camper]

Well, I know that there are no wolfs on my land or in the area .... so it must be a coyote.
But yes, some people think it is a wolf .... and I wanted confirmation from you folks that this is a coyote.

With respect to poaching ...... hmmmmm .... all access points to my land have trail cameras ... and none of those cameras has caught a human in many months. It would have to be a very intelligent poacher who travels in the swamp and who knows the location of all my cameras and in order to avoid them ...

I found the carcass ca. 100 meters from the spot where the coyotes seem to have killed the deer and feasted on it .... fur, blood and small pieces of meat all over .... snow compacted in that area ... And it was not just one coyote .... there were packed trails full of tracks leading to that kill site.

And it seems the remains in the picture were dragged the 100 meters away afterwards ...

It's hard to say, coyotes fight over food and it tends to get dragged around. I remember taking my friend's two boys out for small critters and the youngest found a deer skull complete with antlers in a place it most certainly wouldn't have been poached: It probably came from the nearest house half a mile away. This could be the skeleton left by a hunter and the coyotes tore it up and dragged it to the four corners. It could just be a coyote kill, or previously wounded in the archery season.

 

[0faustus0]

It's hard to say, coyotes fight over food and it tends to get dragged around. I remember taking my friend's two boys out for small critters and the youngest found a deer skull complete with antlers in a place it most certainly wouldn't have been poached: It probably came from the nearest house half a mile away. This could be the skeleton left by a hunter and the coyotes tore it up and dragged it to the four corners. It could just be a coyote kill, or previously wounded in the archery season.

Yes, my observations as well .... you find the bones normally all over in a radius of lets say 50 to 200 meters.

I have this feeling the coyotes are not finished with that carcass yet .... I will check next time I am out there.

 

[0faustus0]

Update: So this carcass was out there this winter frozen in the snow and ice. I checked on it a couple of times while snow shoeing.

But when I checked this spring and after all the snow had melted away .... the carcass was gone. Something has dragged it even further and the bones are probably in pieces all over now ...