Anyone seen any larger than normal Coyotes?? I was scouting out a spot, and I'm 99% sure it was a coyote and I'm 99% sure this thing was abnormally large....... like the size of a German Sheppard. Most of the yotes I have seen are fairly small..... as in less than 40 lbs or so.
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Look up Coywolf. I can't remember what NC school did a study on them . I believe they found them in eastern Randolph County. Primarily I think they are much farther east is where the study area was.
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I shot a coywolf? Coyote? Here behind the house a couple years ago that weighed 58lbs
We had a black one last year that was bigger than my 55lb border collie
We had a black one last year that was bigger than my 55lb border collie
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Yup the coyotes in North Iredell are big enough for me to query Fish & Wildlife asking if they were actually red wolves. I was sitting in my back yard with a cigar and an air rifle trying to plink a certain pest when a deer came barreling out of the woods chased by 3 of them.
They were indeed all the size of German Shepherds as described; I got a REALLY close look at them. Wife is convinced they are red wolves or hybrids and she's some kind of animal scientist.
They were indeed all the size of German Shepherds as described; I got a REALLY close look at them. Wife is convinced they are red wolves or hybrids and she's some kind of animal scientist.
There have been some killed on a property I hunted long ago in Stokes Co. that went 65 lbs.
When they have all they want to eat, they grow big.
When they have all they want to eat, they grow big.
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The eastern coyote is larger than it's western counterpart. Significantly larger.
Coyotes aren't native to the east coast. They weren't introduced by NCWRC or by the Insurance industry or by the Illuminati to control the deer herds. They migrated here. Took them awhile mind you as they didn't have a direct route until we started building bridges across that big ol river that runs through the middle of the country. So they migrated north out of the southwest, through Canadistan and down through New England and the Great Lakes area to settle the east coast.
They're opportunistic predators, scavengers, and highly adaptable to their environment. They're also close enough genetically to grey wolves and domesticated dogs to interbreed and produce reproductive offspring. So in the process of their great migration they've picked up a significant amount of grey wolf and domesticated dog DNA. They're still mostly coyote, at least the ones that are several generations removed from a direct interbreeding, but they're a heck of a lot bigger as a result.
Biggest one I've seen directly was a 54 pounder that my father in law killed several years ago. I've killed a couple in the 40s and a few juveniles that were smaller. They go bigger.....
And yes one of the reasons that the red wolf reintroduction has failed so spectacularly is that the coyotes are too numerous and will simply breed them out within a generation or two.
Coyotes aren't native to the east coast. They weren't introduced by NCWRC or by the Insurance industry or by the Illuminati to control the deer herds. They migrated here. Took them awhile mind you as they didn't have a direct route until we started building bridges across that big ol river that runs through the middle of the country. So they migrated north out of the southwest, through Canadistan and down through New England and the Great Lakes area to settle the east coast.
They're opportunistic predators, scavengers, and highly adaptable to their environment. They're also close enough genetically to grey wolves and domesticated dogs to interbreed and produce reproductive offspring. So in the process of their great migration they've picked up a significant amount of grey wolf and domesticated dog DNA. They're still mostly coyote, at least the ones that are several generations removed from a direct interbreeding, but they're a heck of a lot bigger as a result.
Biggest one I've seen directly was a 54 pounder that my father in law killed several years ago. I've killed a couple in the 40s and a few juveniles that were smaller. They go bigger.....
And yes one of the reasons that the red wolf reintroduction has failed so spectacularly is that the coyotes are too numerous and will simply breed them out within a generation or two.
The 'yotes I've seen on the East coast have all been much smaller than the ones I saw in AK. The one I saw in Colorado was about the same size as the ones I've seen around here, bigger if anything.
Suppose there's a lot more wolves to cross with in AK, but my understanding (which could be wrong) is wolves generally kill 'em if they catch them.
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Suppose there's a lot more wolves to cross with in AK, but my understanding (which could be wrong) is wolves generally kill 'em if they catch them.
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Everything is bigger in Alaska....lol.
Wolf/Yote encounters much like dog/yote encounters depend largely on pack dynamics. Lone male wolf licking his wounds after being driven from his pack by the Alpha encounters a female yote in heat.... Different outcome if the pack encounters a single of the other species. Enough time and generations and they're all mixed species.....
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Wolf/Yote encounters much like dog/yote encounters depend largely on pack dynamics. Lone male wolf licking his wounds after being driven from his pack by the Alpha encounters a female yote in heat.... Different outcome if the pack encounters a single of the other species. Enough time and generations and they're all mixed species.....
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Got a pic of some critter in the Smokies that was pushing 90 lbs. It was mostly Red Wolf but not sure what else. I know the coy-dogs can get large. And worse, they can look more like a dog than a coyote.
I've heard them called coydogs around here. I also heard that the dog part makes them less afraid of humans. Seems like SC Wildlife people did some DNA testing on some shot near Chester a while back and they were part dog.
Girl I work with had a large one eating apples under her apple tree last night. Said it would have been well above her knee and really light brown.