Larger Than Normal Coyotes In Area Are Wolf Hybrids.....

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woodguru

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I had the county trapper here yesterday setting snares for Coyotes to keep them from going after my goats since they were eating one killed by a lion. We saw one place where they had freshly dug a hole under the fence at the corner that he said would get some for sure.

I asked him about the over sized coyote we saw in Georgetown and he said there were a couple areas he was getting much larger yotes that he says are part wolf.

My friend lived in the one region for ten years and had a half wolf half German shepard that he'd seen running with coyotes on several occasions. His dog/wolf would take off for as much as three and four weeks at a time running with them. That could easily have introduced wolf into the region's coyote population. In his prime this was a 90 pound animal. He's old now but it amazes me how much he looks like an over sized scraggly old coyote

The trapper was saying there is no mistake when you see these that they are not pure coyotes, they've got as much as 20 to 30 pounds on a big yote.
 
jkruger that sucker is as big as a year old german shepard. We've seen and taken some big ones up here too. Don't know exact weight,doubt that heavy though.
 
This is not me. I found this pic on Bark at the moon coyote club forum. I believe it was taken in '06

The tail is crazy long isn't it?

I think this gent is a member of that forum also.
 
We weigh all the coyotes we kill that appear or feel to be 35 or bigger. We kill a lot of coyotes in the 35-45 pound range. We have killed a few over the years that weighed over 50 pounds.

I have killed a 52 pound male and 44 pound female for my personal best.

I was with my Uncle (PossumAl) when he killed a 58 pound male. This was back in the early 90's when he killed the 58 pounder. This coyote was HUGE.

I know a trapper who told me his biggest was 62 pounds but I am only going by what he said.
 
About 8 years ago a friend trapped an animal that he was not sure weather or not was a coyote. So he did the lawful thing and called the local DNR office. A Biologist was sent out and at a very close distance the wildlife biologist could not make a 100% positive species identification.This animal was in a leg hold trap and was very much alive and healthy. My friend was not allowed to harvest it. The DNR guy tranquilized it examined it and it was released. I know it was a female but I can not remember what it weighed. The biologist said it was awful small for a wolf but ALMOST to large to be a coyote. My buddy has trapped coyotes here in upper Mich. since he was a kid, he said it was an odd looking critter and in his opinion it was a coywolf or possibly a coydog. Just another interesting story about the ever evolving canines of North America.
 
I watched that show too. It was very interesting that they thought the first Coywolf was found in Canada and that they are now living in green belts in the large cities. They seem to be a cross between the Eastern or red wolf and the coyote.
 
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I thought it was a great show. The videos they showed of pups at their dens really showed the difference in body types. I also thought it was interesting that by using radio collars they tied their movements to the availability of railroad lines. It seems pretty obvious now but that certainly explained the "islands" of land that they live in that are surrounded by 10 lanes of heavy traffic.
 
It's been known for most of a decade or more there was a genetic study done that there are wolf-coyote hybrids in the eastern U.S. I think they bred with "Red wolves" or another canid that isn't Canis Lupus (Grey Wolves). From what I recall occasionally there are coy-dogs hybrids, but it was a percentage in the teens. Where as the coy-wolf hybrids were found to be more frequent, in the 30%-40% of dogs back east.

If you're really interested in the specifics you should be able to google the study. I read about it in Outdoor Life or Field and Stream in the mid-2000's, and looked into it further.
 
In the beginning of the show they called the coyote/wolf cross a Coywolf. By the end of the show they were using the terms Coywolf and the Eastern Coyote inter-changeably. Did anyone else notice this? Apparently they are one in the same animal.
 
I help guide in Alaska during the winter on predator hunts. Yes coyotes and wolves are mortal enemies up there. When wolves hear a coyote sound they come charging in to the call. I'm not sure how they respond to each other in the lower 48.

I just got back from AK and for the past 3 years there is a pack of coyotes up on a certain mountain that bark everynight. They will never come down to the foxpro and this year they were doing there evening call and I played a quick wolf howl and they shut right up. You can usually find their tracks down in the valley but this year there were wolf tracks everywhere in the valley and not a single coyote track.
 


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