Black yotes.....

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While watching all the yote talk as of late I thought I'd post a pic of my black yote I shot in the fall of 2008 while turkey hunting.......I posted back then but thought some of the new yote hunters/members might like too see it. Good luck and keep on whackin' em!
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It is average size for Saskatchewan but I haven't seen any black ones out here. I have seen two white ones and I shot one of them. A guy gave me $250 for it when the average one around here was going for $20.
 
srt4u2nv said:
That sir is an eastern Coyote/Wolf hybrid we call them tweed wolves lots of them in South Eastern Ontario.....
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Bingo! That is a Wolf/Coyote cross. Years ago, the Grey Wolf crossed with the Red Wolf to produce the Eastern Wolf which are plentiful throughout Central and Eastern Ontario. The Eastern Wolf looks like a Husky or German Shepard with red behind the ears. I think the Eastern Wolf is endangered for alot of reasons but mostly because it will mate with a Coyote to produce this hybrid offspring and hence, the Eastern Wolf population disappears. The Grey Wolf, on the other hand, will not mate with a coyote, and will in fact, kill it. In and around Algonquin Park, Eastern Wolf populations are on the decline while this hybrid Wolf/Coyote population is exploding.
 
You find a larger proportion of black coyotes in the southeastern USA for much the same reason, except there it was the red wolf (Canis rufus). Essentially, its melanism (the opposite of albinism).
 
Woodbeef said:
Hmmmm.......I've always heard them called Coy-Dogs officially in Ontario.
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A coydog is a cross between a coyote and a domestic dog. This doesn't necessarily result in them being black in colour (neither does being crossed with a wolf, of course, but the genetic lineage there has been established longer).
 
Coyote dog crosses get to be big problems, not only are they bigger and braver but they lose their solitary instincts and are known for taking bigger and bigger game/domestic animals. The rule of thumb that is agreed with all ranchers out in my area of the prairies is that a dog out on the pasture that isn't with a person, it soon becomes a dead dog, whether or not its yours, your neighbors, or a stray. A good 'yote will eat mice and gophers all its life, but mixed with dog, even your yearlings may be in trouble.
 
sunray said:
"...Wolf/Coyote cross..." Wolves don't shag coyotes. They kill 'em.
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Wrong
http://www.pc.gc.ca/eng/pn-np/ns/cbreton/natcul/natcul1/c/i/a.aspx

The eastern coyote looks like a medium-sized German shepherd but is grey or reddish grey with a whitish throat and belly. It is mostly nocturnal although it may be seen at any time of day. The coyote is an opportunistic feeder with its main diet consisting of snowshoe hare, white-tailed deer and rodents. Most of the white tailed deer they eat can be attributed to carrion and field-dressed hunter kills although packs of coyotes have been known to take down weakened and sick deer in the winter. Coyotes also eat berries and grasses when available. A few individuals may sometimes attack livestock.
The female coyote gives birth to a litter of 5 to 10 pups in April or May. Both male and female hunt and care for the young, sometimes assisted by offspring from previous years. Coyotes exhibit a high degree of monogamy and may mate for life. A coyote may live up to 18 years in the wild, but on average probably lives only about 9 years.

Distribution

Coyotes can be found over most of North America, from Alaska down south to Mexico and from the prairies east to southern Ontario and Québec, and the Atlantic Provinces.

Our Eastern Coyote

The eastern coyote is descended from western coyotes which expanded their range northeastward as humans wiped out the native wolf populations. On the way, they interbred with wolves in northern Ontario and Québec. This means the animals in eastern Canada are actually a coyote-wolf mix, combining the wolf's hunting prowess with the coyote's adaptability to human activities. The eastern coyote is somewhat larger than its western ancestors because of its wolf blood.
The eastern coyote migrated to Nova Scotia in the late 1970s and had arrived in Cape Breton Highlands National Park by 1981. It may be competition for red foxes, bobcats and lynx which depend on snowshoe hares and rodents for food, like the coyote. Although it is a fairly large carnivore and sometimes hunts in packs, it has not filled the shoes of the wolf as the natural predator of moose, except in the spring when they sometimes take calves.
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Coyotes have also been known on occasion to mate with wolves, though this is less common than with dogs, due to the wolf's hostility to the coyote. The offspring, known as a coywolf, is generally intermediate in size to both parents, being larger than a pure coyote, but smaller than a pure wolf. A study showed that of 100 coyotes collected in Maine, 22 had half or more wolf ancestry, and one was 89 percent wolf. A theory has been proposed that the large eastern coyotes in Canada are actually hybrids of the smaller western coyotes and wolves that met and mated decades ago as the coyotes moved toward New England from their earlier western ranges.[22] The Red Wolf is thought by certain scientists to be in fact a wolf/coyote hybrid rather than a unique species. Strong evidence for hybridization was found through genetic testing, which showed that red wolves have only 5% of their alleles unique from either gray wolves or coyotes. Genetic distance calculations have indicated that red wolves are intermediate between coyotes and gray wolves, and that they bear great similarity to wolf/coyote hybrids in southern Quebec and Minnesota. Analyses of mitochondrial DNA showed that existing red wolf populations are predominantly coyote in origin.[28]
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