Coyote Wolf hybred?

[nexgen]

The biggest I've caught was 53 pounds IIRC, big male.
My local NAFA agent bought a couple from a trapper to have tanned and they were in the mid sixties.

 

[j_06]

This was sarcasm (relating to posts 38/39). Sorry if anyone thought otherwise. Forget the snakes.

Snakes, Why did it have to be snakes...

 

[tokguy]

[youtube]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gnIBB1lWRLE&list=RDgnIBB1lWRLE#t=2[/youtube]

'Nuff said

 

[Jetjock]

Great links tokguy! Very much enjoyed the selection of videos. A cross of Coyotes and and Wolves seems much more plausible if lions and tigers can interbreed and reproduce offspring. Thanks again for researching the subject.

 

[tokguy]

Great links tokguy! Very much enjoyed the selection of videos. A cross of Coyotes and and Wolves seems much more plausible if lions and tigers can interbreed and reproduce offspring. Thanks again for researching the subject.

NP, genetic modification at it's best.

 

[trombone]

Shot this one a few years back. It was considerably bigger than coyote but considerably smaller than a wolf. The farmer told be prior that he seen two huge coyotes in the area. I'm guessing this may have been one of the two he was talking about.

 

[farmer47]

hinny me that eh. a lot of crosses are possible in animals but they are generally sterile. that means no offspring . mule ducks which are a Muscovy cross on domestic ducks, mules in general and the rare hinny which is the reverse cross of a mule .mare ass and stallion horse. all sterile . how this relates to a wolf coyote cross i have no idea but it is generally the end of the line when two different species interbreed.

 

[coldshot]

There is a documentary on PBS that started at nine tonight studying coyotes in Toronto and the researchers are calling them coywolfs.

 

[mooboy76]

In Ontario I've seen Coyotes about 30-35 lbs, hybrid yotes about 60 lbs, and Timber wolves 100 lbs and up. I'm not sure what a grey wolf or Red Wolf are...?

Grey wolves are timber wolves, both Canis lupus. Not to be confused with the eastern grey wolf/Great lakes wolf/Algonquin wolf/eastern wolf, which is the hybrid thingy under discussion.

Red wolves are smaller wolves found in the eastern US with a high amount of coyote DNA introgression. There are not many.

 

[kc34]

There is a documentary on PBS that started at nine tonight studying coyotes in Toronto and the researchers are calling them coywolfs.

I watched some of that documentary on PBS and it was very interesting.

 

[CV32]

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.

The use of the term 'coywolf' to describe the eastern coyote is problematic, leading in part to all kinds of mythology and hyperbole.

While the eastern coyote (canis latrans var.) absolutely does have wolf DNA, among others, making it distinguishable from the western coyote (the 'pure' canis latrans, if you will), it is not really a coywolf in useful terms. A proper coywolf would be the direct descendant of a wolf and a coyote, just as a coydog would be the result of breeding between a coyote and a domestic dog.

The presence of mixed DNA in the eastern coyote (the term I prefer) has led to some interesting qualities. Increased melanism, for example. Here in Newfoundland, for example, there have been several instances of all white coyotes (not albinos), which has been attributed to the presence of some golden retriever DNA in the mix. All black variants and mixed colour pelts also. As well as the larger size mentioned earlier. Examples in the 50+ lb range are not uncommon, though an adult male usually averages about 38 lbs.