Dead animal I/D

Not to be critical here, but in the future a less angled, more straight on shot will help reduce the possible lens distortion. It's hard for me to tell if it is bloated or due to the position/angle, if its just a wide angle lens thing. A cig pack on the ground, a wallet or even part of your foot in the shot will help with relative scale too.
 
commiecuriocollector said:
Not to be critical here, but in the future a less angled, more straight on shot will help reduce the possible lens distortion. It's hard for me to tell if it is bloated or due to the position/angle, if its just a wide angle lens thing. A cig pack on the ground, a wallet or even part of your foot in the shot will help with relative scale too.
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More specifically a croc, right? 😂
 
I'll be odd man out and go coyote. Legs look too in proportion to the body. Foxes tend to look leggy for their size. And the muzzle looks too big to be a fox. Could be me. Could be the pic. Could be wrong. Could be that fact it's been dead a while but I have NEVER seen a fox with a bad coat. About half the coyotes I see look about like that coat when they are alive. Coyotes coats are far more varied than fox. Fox is very consistent.

@Gator how much to you think it would have weighed?
 
chiefjason said:
I'll be odd man out and go coyote. Legs look too in proportion to the body. Foxes tend to look leggy for their size. And the muzzle looks too big to be a fox. Could be me. Could be the pic. Could be wrong. Could be that fact it's been dead a while but I have NEVER seen a fox with a bad coat. About half the coyotes I see look about like that coat when they are alive. Coyotes coats are far more varied than fox. Fox is very consistent.

@Gator how much to you think it would have weighed?
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I was quietly thinking the same thing, mainly about the coat. I just don't come across either often enough dead to feel I can really weigh in. I see them alive plenty, and fox is not what I would go with.
 
commiecuriocollector said:
Not to be critical here, but in the future a less angled, more straight on shot will help reduce the possible lens distortion. It's hard for me to tell if it is bloated or due to the position/angle, if its just a wide angle lens thing. A cig pack on the ground, a wallet or even part of your foot in the shot will help with relative scale too.
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Dead animal is on the side of the road, I pulled over and took the pic out the window of my truck. I'll go back today and get a better pic.

FWIW, animal seems too big for a fox, in my uneducated opinion. But maybe it is bloated, I first saw it Sunday.

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Gator said:
Dead animal is on the side of the road, I pulled over and took the pic out the window of my truck. I'll go back today and get a better pic.

FWIW, animal seems too big for a fox, in my uneducated opinion. But maybe it is bloated, I first saw it Sunday.

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No prob I figured it was something like that. Knowing you were inside a vehicle now, that was actually a pretty well taken pic then. Don't wear yourself out at this point, it may be a fair bit stinky by now.
 
commiecuriocollector said:
Not to be critical here, but in the future a less angled, more straight on shot will help reduce the possible lens distortion. It's hard for me to tell if it is bloated or due to the position/angle, if its just a wide angle lens thing. A cig pack on the ground, a wallet or even part of your foot in the shot will help with relative scale too.
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Umbrella is 42"long.


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We live where many would describe as out in the country. The "main" road that brings you to our little housing development runs right behind my house. Across the road is pasture. Within a 1 mile radius is a commercial chicken farm that also raises beef cattle. Then some of the neighbors also raise their own chickens.

About 3 months ago my next door neighbor tells me he saw a coyote in the pasture behind our houses, across the road. I don't know how well my neighbor knows animals, I'm guessing not too well. This dead animal is a little over a half a mile as the crow flies from where my neighbor spotted something. I'm hoping this is what my neighbor spotted and he's no longer something to worry about.

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