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UPDATE: Bonavista hunter shoots large coyote
Joe Fleming of Spillars Cove, near Bonavista, poses with a large coyote he killed on the Bonavista Peninsula on Monday. Fleming was tracking the coyote in that area for a month. It has been weighed in at approximately 82 pounds. — Submitted photo
Published on March 14, 2012
Published on March 14, 2012
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Topics : CLARENVILLE , Lewisporte
CLARENVILLE — A hunter has shot what is believed to be one of the biggest coyotes ever recorded in Newfoundland and Labrador.
Joe Fleming of Spillars Cove, near Bonavista, shot the animal near Half Way Pond on the Bonavista Peninsula on Monday after tracking it for about a month.
The coyote was double the size of regular large coyotes. It weighed in at 37 kilograms.
“I’ve been hunting a long time. This is the biggest one I’ve seen, the biggest one I’ve weighed,” Fleming, a crab fisherman, told The Telegram.
When he first saw the tracks a couple months ago, Fleming said he thought it was a lynx and hoped it wasn’t trailing him to jump him.
But then he realized there was a small coyote travelling with the animal.
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Some people have commented the animal is more like a wolf, than a coyote. But Fleming said wildlife officials are convinced it’s a coyote, adding officials have taken blood and hair samples.
More in Thursday’s Telegram.
Fleming brought the carcass to wildlife officials in Clarenville and says DNA and blood samples have been taken in an attempt to determine why this particular animal was so large.
He says he knew the carcass had to be preserved so he took it to an outdoor supply store in Lewisporte where it will go on display once it is mounted.
Joe Fleming of Spillars Cove, near Bonavista, poses with a large coyote he killed on the Bonavista Peninsula on Monday. Fleming was tracking the coyote in that area for a month. It has been weighed in at approximately 82 pounds. — Submitted photo
Published on March 14, 2012
Published on March 14, 2012
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Topics : CLARENVILLE , Lewisporte
CLARENVILLE — A hunter has shot what is believed to be one of the biggest coyotes ever recorded in Newfoundland and Labrador.
Joe Fleming of Spillars Cove, near Bonavista, shot the animal near Half Way Pond on the Bonavista Peninsula on Monday after tracking it for about a month.
The coyote was double the size of regular large coyotes. It weighed in at 37 kilograms.
“I’ve been hunting a long time. This is the biggest one I’ve seen, the biggest one I’ve weighed,” Fleming, a crab fisherman, told The Telegram.
When he first saw the tracks a couple months ago, Fleming said he thought it was a lynx and hoped it wasn’t trailing him to jump him.
But then he realized there was a small coyote travelling with the animal.
View the gallery
Some people have commented the animal is more like a wolf, than a coyote. But Fleming said wildlife officials are convinced it’s a coyote, adding officials have taken blood and hair samples.
More in Thursday’s Telegram.
Fleming brought the carcass to wildlife officials in Clarenville and says DNA and blood samples have been taken in an attempt to determine why this particular animal was so large.
He says he knew the carcass had to be preserved so he took it to an outdoor supply store in Lewisporte where it will go on display once it is mounted.
