Hey Guys, is this a wolf?

The first pic looks wolf like, but then it turns and you see how long that face is. The last pic to me screams coyote.

There are wolves around Ottawa though, I am just south of the city and I have heard them around my place, lots of coyotes but there are a few wolves around too.
 
Answer to your question; In Ottawa that animal is a Coyote and the same animal in Algonquin Park is a Wolf!
http://cossaroagency.ca/wp-content/uploads/2017/06/Accessible_COSSARO-evaluation-Algonquin-Wolf.pdf
https://www.ontario.ca/page/algonquin-wolf

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According to Wolves Ontatio;"Eastern coyotes and Algonquin wolves can’t be told apart without a genetic test. To protect Algonquin wolves, coyotes must also be protected. Instead of closing hunting and trapping of both species across the Algonquin wolf’s known range, Ontario announced that the new closures were being limited to 3 areas around parks where wolves have already been protected from hunting for years: Killarney Provincial Park, Queen Elizabeth II Wildlands and Kawartha Highlands Signature Site."

My opinion is that the Eastern Wolf is extinct and the newly minted "Algonquin" wolf is a construct of MNRF as a make work project. Read the COSSARO evaluation, the "Algonquin Wolf" is indiscernible from a Coyote without DNA testing and contains dog DNA. If the MNR was serious about protecting Wolves, they should hunt down everyone of the "Algonquin Coy-Wolf-Dog mongrels" and replace them with proper grey wolves.

Nice looking dog all the same.
 
Just finished checking out a coyote on the lake (a BC purebred :) ) with binoculars and then checked out the OP's photo. There is a difference, the body is a bit heavier, sort of like a regular coyote on steroids. The first head shot gives a different look as well, a bit broader through the top of the skull. That is a coyote but there is definitely a difference.
 
This is a wolf note leg length and body shape,nice coyote though.

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Bland said:
Just finished checking out a coyote on the lake (a BC purebred :) ) with binoculars and then checked out the OP's photo. There is a difference, the body is a bit heavier, sort of like a regular coyote on steroids. The first head shot gives a different look as well, a bit broader through the top of the skull. That is a coyote but there is definitely a difference.
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I agree about B.C. pure bred coyotes and I took a 2nd look at the pic..to me it looks like a bit of a mixed???
We got a few around the vineyards and park land year round of pure ones
 
Coyote . This morning behind the barn where my bait pile is , I shot 3 over 2 hours . Two where together as this is
the mating season . .223 with 45 gr. HP did the job.
 
CV32 said:
The same is largely true of North American wolf species (that is, they contain coyote DNA), though probably to a lesser extent. And, of course, if you go back far enough, and perhaps not that far in the scheme of things, there is common ancestry.
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That may be true for the eastern timber wolf, but Manitoba/NW Ontario and west there has been no evidence of this.

The term "brush wolf" has been tossed around here for decades, supposedly a hybrid. It's either a small wolf or large coyote, there's no such thing.

https://www.nytimes.com/2016/07/28/science/red-eastern-gray-wolves.html
 
Living in the country and last Saturday we pushed 7 out of about a 5 acres parcel in sight of the house. I can hear no less than 3 separate family groups from the porch when they get howling.
I can just imagine how many are in any urban area unbeknownst to residents. A buddy who lives in the city had one coming to his yard every morning about 9:30 eating bird seed. A 1000 ft pellet gun stopped those visits. He has small pets and young kids and I don't blame him.
 
My daughter had a coyote run by her as she walked down the sidewalk to work in the Mount Pleasant area of Vancouver. Sent her dog spray for her belt. Adaptable would fit their MO.
 
I find this no surprize that many Canadians cannot discern a coyote from a wolf.
Many are also ignorant of what's a whitetailed deer from a typical mule deer.
Many more cannot tell a Pine Martin from a Fisher.
Others see a few spots on a Lynx's fur and call it a Bobcat.
 
pounder said:
This is a wolf note leg length and body shape,nice coyote though.
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Only missing is the pink mist of a hit.........
Lots of yotes in Delta, Richmond, Vancouver , hell all of metro Vancouver aka GVRD.
People have been feeding them their pets that run freely never to return , even setting out feeding stations.
A few years back a VPD was taking a few minutes from his shift to watch kids play soccer on pitch near Kerr and Marine Drive in south Vancouver .
On a fall day lots of kids and family out a coyote decided to wonder close enough the VPD decided it was time for action and drew his pistol and busted a couple of caps.
VPD 2 shots and paperwork for a few hours and coyote ran away looking for fluffy another day.
Prolly see Yogi and boo-boo sometime this Spring wondering the streets of a GVRD town near you.
But, back to the OP nice photo op you where given.
Rob
 
That is a nice fat well fed and well furred coyote through and through. If you have wolves around you will hear them and once you do you will know you are not listening to coyotes. Incidentally, when I was growing up in the Fraser Valley near Vancouver there were NO coyotes there, or wolves, or possums, or gray squirrels, lots of skunks and pheasants. When I lived in Nova Scotia in the late 50's to mid 60's, same thing, never saw a coyote or wolf in seven years although lots of stray dogs. It would appear that the cross continent spread of the coyote had not reached either coast at that time. The coyote in the photo is living regally in Ottawa, I don't ever remember seeing them there either although I met a couple of foxes and I understand that you can find cougars in some of the bars now.
 
Ashcroft said:
That is a nice fat well fed and well furred coyote through and through. If you have wolves around you will hear them and once you do you will know you are not listening to coyotes. Incidentally, when I was growing up in the Fraser Valley near Vancouver there were NO coyotes there, or wolves, or possums, or gray squirrels, lots of skunks and pheasants. When I lived in Nova Scotia in the late 50's to mid 60's, same thing, never saw a coyote or wolf in seven years although lots of stray dogs. It would appear that the cross continent spread of the coyote had not reached either coast at that time. The coyote in the photo is living regally in Ottawa, I don't ever remember seeing them there either although I met a couple of foxes and I understand that you can find cougars in some of the bars now.
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You must be old Ashcroft:). I have spent my whole life in the Fraser valley and can recall seeing coyotes in the early 70s, maybe even before that. I too am getting old and forgetful. They were rare to see, unlike now when we see them regularly.

And to the poster above who says that the coyotes here are pure, you are wrong. I have seen coyotes here with a face that screams husky or german shepherd.
 
Brutus said:
I find this no surprize that many Canadians cannot discern a coyote from a wolf.
Many are also ignorant of what's a whitetailed deer from a typical mule deer.
Many more cannot tell a Pine Martin from a Fisher.
Others see a few spots on a Lynx's fur and call it a Bobcat.
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Keep in mind a lot has to do with where and how we're raised.
I've seen live wolves and pictures of coyotes, but this guy looked bigger and fatter than any coyote I'd seen before. Especially in a city park!
Besides, I bet I can spot and identify more species in downtown Toronto than you can!!! ;)

Thanks to all who commented. I now know a whole lot more about coyotes!
 
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