Coyote Wolf hybred?

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Anyone here actually seen/shot what is being called a Coywolf? Apparently they are thriving and able to reproduce. Fact or fiction?
 
I know how a lot of folks here feel about David Suzuki but found this episode to be very interesting and presented objectively: http://www.cbc.ca/natureofthings/episodes/meet-the-coywolf
Apparently not possible for timber wolves to hybridize with coyotes but according to these scientists is possible with what in Ontario is called brush wolf. They give some reasons why it would be advantageous for eastern wolves to interbreed. As to have I seen any? Well, if the documentary is correct then yes, probably.
 
Down here we have coyotes that range in size from a springer spaniel to a Belgian shepherd. I use to sell my cow hides and deer hides to an old guy that bought hides and fur, and one day he had three hides hanging in the shed. They were all the same colour but different sizes, one of them was huge. I said it was one of the biggest I had ever seen, he said he thought it was a wolf because of the distance between the eyes on the pelt.
There are some real big dogs down here, the size of timber wolves, but the same colour as most of the rest of the coyotes. It seems reasonable that due to their size that there are a coyote wolf hybrid, but you would think that eventually they would all be the same size.
 
Here in Ontario, I thought that pure coyotes were actually a rarity. I think there's some information on these, on the MNR's website.

Soon as I finally bag one, I'll post 'er up.
 
Coyotes come in many colors and sizes.we get a few red ones every year as well as yellow and black. Some get pretty big.
 
There's the grey wolf (Canis Lupus), the coyote (Canis latrans), and the coywolf (Canis lycaon) aka. brush wolf, eastern wolf, ect. 3 distinct species.


Coywolf basically breed like coyotes, but work together like grey wolves. This is why they have exploded onto the scene here in Ontario.
 
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 .
 
Great report from the U of M which proves that hybreds of wolves and coyotes exist. I was hunting in Central Alberta and, while friving down a back road, jumped a large black animal that was about the size of a Malumute Husky. It leaped into the ditch and disappeared into a group of trees. As there was a light dusting of snow, checked the tracks and they were approximately 6 X 4 inches. Stopped at a nearby farm to ask permission to hunt on their property and the lady volunteered that I was welcome to do so. I mentioned the large black animal I saw and she said that she had seen the wolf, ( her noun not mine), hanging around with some smaller coyotes she had seen out in her pasture close to her cattle. Looking forward to doing some calling in this area. I guess if a Poodle can mate with a Saint Bernard, a wolf and a coyote could do the same. Interesting if they can reproduce, (unlike Mules which are the result of horses and donkeys and are infertile), we may have a smarter, bigger and more challenging animal to hunt!
 
dutchhunter said:
Coyotes come in many colors and sizes.we get a few red ones every year as well as yellow and black. Some get pretty big.
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Coyotes are basically continent wide. Think there is a biological rule that says animals of the same species tend to get larger, the further north you go. I'ts about heat conservation during cold weather.

Grizz
 
Picked up a photo of this guy on my game cam. It was photographed with a pack of coyotes....but this one looked a fair bit different..

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The eastern coyote is also called "coy wolf ". They are a result of Western coyotes inter breeding with grey and red wolves in Ontario and they spread through Eastern North America. They have hammered whitetail deer very hard as their territory expands. Iirc, they possess coyote, wolf and domestic dog DNA.
 
Having shot both coyotes and timber wolves there's a huge size difference. I've shot a couple massive coyotes. One was 42lbs and another may have gone slightly more. The small female timber wolf I shot weighed 85 lbs.
I do believe they interbreed. I've seen wolves case and kill a coyote. Wasn't much of a fight.
In South West Ontario I've seen coyotes breed with farm dogs and I've seen what looked like red wolves running with coyotes. They were twice the size of the coyotes.
Either way if they cross my path ill try to put some lead into them
 
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