Looks like a wolf to me, only smaller. We have coyotes that get that big in out back yard and west of here we have wolves that get close to 200 pounds. The pic in the OP has got wolf written all over it. I'd shoot either of them.
Hunter Kills 104-Pound 'Unusually Large' Coyote
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Brutus
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Texas, once upon a time, had a sub-species of a smaller wolf. IIRC the red wolf. Isn't it true that there were once about 20-30 different subspecies of wolf in Canada? Maybe its not as easy as labelling something, dog/coyote/coydog/wolf anymore?
Perhaps this is just the 'return' of a wolf subspecies, other than a more traditional grey/timber/artic wolf that we are familiar with up here.
Perhaps this is just the 'return' of a wolf subspecies, other than a more traditional grey/timber/artic wolf that we are familiar with up here.
Definately LOOKS like a wolf... Coyotes don't usually have grey & white fur...
Maybe it's a sheep...
Looks just like the last Coyote I hit with my car here in Newfoundland. It was huge (there are no wolfs here). Apparently we have some kind of hybrid.
Me and my wife saw another one while driving 2 months ago on the Salmonier line. Its head was well above the hood of my Honda civic (We stopped and it was 3 feet from the car). It had to weigh at least 100lbs.
-Dave
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I wonder how the DNA would read if it was a Coyote/Wolf mix? We're getting those here in Eastern Canada now days.
blaxsun
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Just make sure you don't 'export' any of your Eastern 'yotes out West...
Just make sure you don't 'export' any of your Eastern 'yotes out West...
I was hoping you fellas would send us some of your 'yotes. Ours are all messed up! Plus they are almost impossible to call. I had suggested we place a few Claymores around a bait pile but apparently that is a no-no....
Just make sure you don't 'export' any of your Eastern 'yotes out West...
Our coyote are too smart to live out there. I was talking to a bunch of friends last night working in Saskatoon and they were freezing their cookies off. Minus 20 something he said and snow for weeks now. My grass is still green here and like plus 6.
blaxsun
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Well take your coyotes in exchange for all this cold weather and snow!
Humm I will have to think about that one. But see that is what is so confusing. We have had the best winters here at least the past 5 for 30 years , perfect springs for fawns and we cannot get our deer to rebound to levels like we had when the winters were like yours.
You guys get full blown very cold winters and still have tons of deer.
blaxsun
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We have lots of coyotes, too.
pittboomer
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sure looks like a wolf and there protected so ... he thought he'd shoot it to see what it was? ... idiot .
Brutus
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There are several sub-species of foxes and wolves in Canada, and most of us would agree with this fact.
So this being said, why could there not be more than one or two or more sub-species of coyote?
So this being said, why could there not be more than one or two or more sub-species of coyote?
canadaman30
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Looks like a big yote to me, we have alot of tall yotes around here, easy to mistake them when your looking at them head on, once they turn broad-side you see their just tall yotes. 100 pounds, guess he had a good life of eating well.
The red wolf is a separate species, not a sub-species of gray wolf. And they are not extinct. Their natural range was parts of Texas, Louisiana, Missouri and some other Southern states. There have been releases of red wolves in an attempt to re-introduce them back into their original range. This particular animal may very well be one of those animals.
In appearance, they actually look like what you would expect a cross between a yote and a wolf would be, same face profile, redish colouration on the back of the ears etc. About the right size too.
The wolves of the Algonquin area of Ontario were a few years ago DNA tested, and found to be, much to everybody's suprise, to actually be a unique sub-species of red wolf.
Hit google images and search red wolf.
a couple of biologist's from some university were given a grant to study wolves in Algonquin Park and their collared wolves kept getting shot when they would leave the park. Lo and behold they then discovered the red wolf's DNA in some of the wolves. Then they got the gov't to protect this endangered species of mongrel by banning the shooting of wolves in all townships around the park. They are still shot on sight.
