You coyote hunters see these often???

[senior]

Watching reminds me all the people I work with who will say "I was out west on the weekend and saw this animal but I couldn't tell if it was a wolf or a coyote."

I'll tell them it was a coyote.

"Well how do you know?"

"Because if it was a wolf, you would have been wondering whether it was a deer or a bear or a wolf. The size of them leaves no doubt when you see it."

True to some extent.
The largest coyote I have saw weighed between 45-50lbs.
I have also shot a few younger wolves that weighed 50-55lb range.
Not so easy to tell the diff from a distance, even a relatively short one.