Is this a wolf?

dutchhunter said:
Please do tell what do yotes in ontario eat .
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probably the same as every other coyote anywhere, whatever they can get their teeth into, including deer/baby deer/calves/birds/rodents/eggs/fruit/berries/garbage/whatever we planted in the garden and even possibly grasshoopers (although i've never them in the guts of any coyotes I've opened)...
 
Give it a rest boys I know what thy eat I have been trapping and hunting them all my life .thy. Even eat a lot off fruit and nuts like acorns .thy donot eat as many deer as you would think heck if thy did we would not have a deer left .
 
I have a similar question as the OP, but my pictures are from last fall:
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I'm in Muskoka so was thinking this is an eastern wolf ( a coyote / wolf mix)?
 
That last one if definitly a mix. Read in OOD that most of the yotes in ontario are hybrid to some extent.
 
DVXDUDE said:
Uhhhh...That looks like a pretty normal coyote for Ontario I'd say.....


I think you are being sarcastic though lol
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yes .. sarcastic .... although to be fair to the 905'ers ... we are seeing so many of them wandering around the neighborhoods - crossing streets (they look both ways the clever bastards!) etc usually from 9:30 pm and later - that a lot of city folks have become more familiar with them than the country folk! I laugh when I see them because they are always checking their 6 like good infantrymen (and a good hunter!)
 
Recently watched "Meet the Coywolf" on Netflix.It's a PBS documentary about our eastern coyotes and their evolution.
It's definitely worth a look.
GJ
 
Yes in the east we're getting hybrids and they're filling the wolf niche which, as I think that show says, means they're naturally growing larger to take down the very abundant white tailed deer.
 
dutchhunter said:
Please do tell what do yotes in ontario eat .
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Well, the last one I shot had 6 mice and a belly full of apples.

The one before that had a turkey (boy what a stink that was!)

A couple before that had 5 baby rabbits..didnt look he even chewed before he swallowed them.

And so on and so on...

Not trying to be a smartass but I think they eat more than grasshoppers.

A buddies cam on a yote den saw 26 cats and 4 fawns being brought there last year.
 
off course thy eat more then hoppers .the point was that thy donot eat as many deer as people think thy do .I have seen them eating wild grapes apples and all sorts of fruit .thy do eat a lot of bugs and all kinds of small game .I have watched them in a hay field catching hoppers for hours at a time Dutch
 
dutchhunter said:
off course thy eat more then hoppers .the point was that thy donot eat as many deer as people think thy do .I have seen them eating wild grapes apples and all sorts of fruit .thy do eat a lot of bugs and all kinds of small game .I have watched them in a hay field catching hoppers for hours at a time Dutch
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I've spent countless hours in a hayfield and the only thing that eats grasshoppers here are seagulls. Foxes eat mice and infrequently frogs. I've never actually witnessed a coyote "mousing" around here and we don't have apples or grapes, so maybe that's why they prey more on larger animals.
I also don't live in an urban area, maybe the S Ontario coyotes have become degenerates.
 
I've spent countless hours in a hayfield and the only thing that eats grasshoppers here are seagulls. Foxes eat mice and infrequently frogs. I've never actually witnessed a coyote "mousing" around here and we don't have apples or grapes, so maybe that's why they prey more on larger animals.
I also don't live in an urban area, maybe the S Ontario coyotes have become degenerates.
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the very few times I have seen coyotes in fields in Southern Ontario (Niagara area) they are definitely hunting for voles and field mice not grasshoppers. I am sure cats and small dogs fall victim to coyotes as well although I have seen a few large cats that frequent fields where coyotes visit and they seem to be ok. I am suspect that a good size cat can hold its own with a lot of coyote's - not that I really care too much as most of these cats are pretty miserable so in so's with no social skills!
 
dutchhunter said:
it is a coyote and thy will not scare the deer away .well we hunt in December controlled hunt when we do a deer drive the doggers start there walk the first thing to come out of the bush is the turkeys then the yotes and lastly the deer come out .always seems to be in that order .the deer live side by side with the yotes all year .yotes main food is grasshoppers all sommer thy eat a lot of real small stuff like mice frogs birds egges and other small stuff .now thy will eat a deer if it is wounded very small or sick hit by car or other wounds ,the odd time a group of yotes will kill a healthy deer but that is not the norm Dutch
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Yotes and wolves are opportunistic predators.
Depending what's available and what they can get they will eat anything.

I have seen one area i used to hunt in Alberta where coyotes moved in and made a serious dent in the deer population.
I've seen several whitetail kills by coyotes in that area, including mature bucks.

Canine predators are very opportunistic (more so than cats who tend to be specialized). If its' there and can be killed a coyote will take it.

With the large Wt population we still have in most parts here coyotes are going after them more.
 
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