Timberwolf in Oklahoma?

J. Holly

J. Holly

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A crazy lady videoed a coyote the other day. She claims that this critter is a Timberwolf. What is funny, the director of Wildlife's video unit said that "Yellowstone Park or a Basketball Court in Minnesota was as close as a Timberwolf is to Oklahoma."

Here is the link to the video.

Wolf Video

Let me know what ya'll think.
 
I would say definitely not a Timber wolf, /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/smiliesmack.gif but as far as pure blooded coyote I'm not sure. I'm no biologist but it does appear to me to have something "more" in him. /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/confused1.gif /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/grinning-smiley-006.gif
 
Correct Lance, however, registration is free. After registering, you could look at all of the Great State of Oklahoma's news. LOL!!!
 
Jeff,

Thanks for the link. I'm going to have to agree with the other poster, seems a bit beefy to be 100% coyote, has sort of a "husky" looking face, and dang the coat still looks pretty thick for this time of year.

Thanks for sharing.
 
Hey us okies have news too! First, it wouldn't surprise me that there would be loose timberwolves running around because I know of several people who had them as pets. It could of been someone's pet at one time. I don't know what it is but I don't rely much on "mr. oklahoma wildlife biologist." Why? It took the Oklahoma Wildlife Department about 15 years to finally admit there are Mt. Lions here. They were being sighted and even killed (although illegally), but the Wildlife Deptartment said for years they didn't exist in Oklahoma. They finally admitted they were wrong!
 
DlTin,

Agreed /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/grinning-smiley-003.gif Yeah and I haven't been tracking two mt. lions in Caddo county since 96 when I obtained some land to hunt out there with several killed brangus cattle covered and stuffed up under a big cedar:) That's one big bobcat that must be doing that...hehehe
 
Awfully pretty coyote, if that's what it is. My guess is someone bought a wolf hybrid as a pet, and the thing wandered off. That's what wolves do, after all is wander around. My neighbor had a hybrid wolf for several years. Had the hardest time trying to keep it at home.

If the lady would pull her head out of the grass, she could just look in the daily Oklahoman's classifieds and plainly see that she could buy a hybrid wolf for a pet too.
 
Therer is something deffinately uncoyote like about that animals head and coloration. The forhead is a little to broad, and there is a slight hump in the noes bridge. Look at a coyote skull, the line from the tip of the nose to the top of the forhead is almost perfectly straight with a fairly narrow brain area. Look at a domestic dog skull (yes any domestic dog skull), a direct relative of the wolf. They are wider accross the brain area and have a deffinate step where the nose bridge meets the forehead. then look at the way he is carrying his tail. The animal in that film is deffinately not all coyote, maybe not coyote at all.
 
Binger. I don't live there but I hunt there on some good friends property. I caught a glimpse of one running off in the distance while bowhunting a few years back on a buddies property just south off of Lookeba Sickles Road. I checked it out after I got the shotgun out of my truck loaded with 00 buck and slugs. Saw the tracks but wouldn't show itself again. Not that I expected it to, apparently had some kittens with her too that I couldn't see in the grass (based on the smaller tracks following and beside hers).

I saw some other tracks early last year on another friends property I hunt out there, but haven't seen any this year.

I only go on what I see for myself. There are a lot of rumors that go on out there about big cats. But after talking with a few ranchers out there, they didn't know that the track they were looking at was just a big dog (Very obvious with the claws showing in the print, cats don't show claws in a print and the pads sit differently)
 
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