Worlds Biggest Coyote

That picture has been flying around a trapping forum that I am a member of. It is not a coyote. It is probably a wolf or a wolf dog cross. Yes there very well could be a wolf in Penn. Probably a younger wolf looking for its own territory. A year a go or so there was a wolf shot in Missori. A 60 pound coyote is huge and if there has ever been a 80 pound coyote shot I would be very surprised. But the pick is deffinitly not a coyote look at its head and chest area. Not pointy and skinny like coyotes.
 
Its almost obvious that the picture isnt real. Is it just me or does the dog look superimposed.

It almost looks elevated by the different lighting. My $.02

The snow makes for a good cover up though. I mean take a deer and a coyote put them in the same pic. and put snow on top of them. Sounds like a good idea.
 
Tommy,

That was the big argument too on a trapping forum I am a member of until some more pictures turned up and they look very real. The first picture did look fake but the others looked very real but even if they are not real the dog is no coyote.
 
Heres to the pa. game department. claim a wolf to be a coyote,why. think about what happens when word gets out that a wolf has been shot. animal rights people go nuts, stop all predator hunting it may happen again and we need to protect our little wolfs. if they report that there is a breeding pair of wolfs the feds may move in and list them as endangered that opens up a whole new can of worms, can't log here or no hunting there. just my thoughts, but thats why wisconsin will never admit to the long tail being in this state. their position is "we won't say there is and we won't say there isn't." I know there are because we have seen tracks very close to madison, when reporting it they say its someones pet turned lose and it could be, however if all these people are turning their pets lose how long before they find each other and start breeding?
Sportingly
Cracker
 
See the Christmas decoration on the deer's
rear feet? That's got to be one of Santa's reindeer. They are known to be tiny. Probably a very small coyote as well. /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/smile.gif
 
MNTrapper, the NH record is 72 pounds. Big Coyote and there are many shot here that go over 50 and a few each year that go 60 pounds.

And that dog does not look like any of the coyotes I have ever seen. Never really saw a wolf up close except at a zoo so I have no clue, but it sure does not look like a coyote. Looks well fed too.
 
TO: THE HUNTED ONE
YOU ARE CORRECT ON THE 72 LB MALE SHOT IN NH A FEW YEARS BACK. I SHOT A 45 LB FEMALE MYSELF THAT I WEIGHED ON A FARMER'S PRODUCE SCALE. CALL ERIC ORFF, OUR NH WILDLIFE BIOLOGIST, HE'LL TELL YOU ALL COYOTES IN OUR AREA HAVE MITOCHONDRIAL WOLF DNA OR ARE HYBRIDS QUITE CAPABLE OF REPRODUCING. THEY ARE NOT ONLY PICKING UP PHYSICAL TRAITS OF THE WOLF (RAISED TAILS,SIZE,ETC.) BUT THEY SEEM TO BE TRAVELING IN LARGER PACKS AS WELL.
 
Interesting....not only do all the coyotes have wolf DNA in them, I've heard all dogs do because all dogs are related to wolves. I also believe some of these so called coydogs people are getting are nothing but strays in most cases or something even more interesting called Indian dogs. If all dogs are related to wolves, how can you prove anything with DNA? Just asking because I don't understand all this lol. /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/wink.gif /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/laugh.gif
 
Unfortunately there is nothing else in the picture to compare size to; either the deer or the ??? Could be a very small deer, such as a Florida Key deer. The coyote (?) looks more like a cross bred domestic dog than either a coyote or wolf. Hasn’t missed many meals either!
 
Danny, here is a very over-simplified explanation, but it makes it easier to understand. Lets just say wolf DNA looks like this: XXXYYYXXXYYYXXX, OK? And coyote DNA is this: XXXZZZXXXYYYXXX, alright? Then a domestic dog DNA might look like this: WWWXXXYYYXXXWWW. Still with me? The "sequence" and charateristic identifiers will be exactly the same for the species, therefore blood samples from six different wolves will always contain the XXXYYYXXXYYYXXX string so they can always be identified as canis lupus.

But look closely at the 3 examples. Coyote and dog both have a characteristic "XXXYYYXXX" found in the wolf DNA. That small characteristic shows a hereditary link to wolves.

So there's no way pure wolf DNA would ever be confused with pure dog or pure coyote DNA. Just don't ask me to go into hybrid DNA. Then it really gets technical, LOL. :rolleyes:
 
Dang, sorry I asked lol. /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/laugh.gif Now I understand how OJ got off...... woooops lol /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/wink.gif
 


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