The eastern coyote is a member of the canid, or dog family. It is larger than its western cousin - typically attributed to wolf-coyote hybridization - and usually has one of four pelt colorations: tri-color (German shepherd-like), red, blond and dark brown (appears black at a distance). Adult males weigh 45 to 55 pounds; females, 35 to 40 pounds. When seeing one for the first time, many people mistake eastern coyotes for dogs. Look for black lines running up and down the front of the front legs, yellow eyes and a cylindrical-shaped, low-hanging tail. Adult coyotes are much larger than foxes, and they tend to travel trails, dirt roads and habitat edges.
AKPirate wrote:Jason is usually right but sometimes wrong
Bufflehead wrote:Looks like one of the endangered red wolves the government has dumped on our area.
Today, more than 100 red wolves roam their native habitats in eastern North Carolina
If you want to read about Red Wolves, here's 300+ pages about themOlly wrote:I've never even heard of a Red Wolves before. Very cool thing to read up on.
I've done a fair amount of homework on "red wolves" as well. I live in the five county recovery area that they claim was part of their historical range but their own data proves was not. I'm also a member of a 15,000+ acre hunt club that is surrounded on three sides by the NWR that these wolves call home. As far as them claiming there are 100 or so in the wild, they don't have a clue how many there are or where they are. You can read the thread I linked above if you want to know the truth about Red Wolves in NC.SpinnerMan wrote:Bufflehead wrote:Looks like one of the endangered red wolves the government has dumped on our area.
Odds are extremely long that that is what it was. The color certainly is in the range, but if you look at my link, Eastern Coyotes also have wolf in them and I've heard that Red Wolves aren't really their own species, but just a coyote/wolf cross with a higher portion of wolves than eastern coyotes. I have no idea about the truth of that.
http://www.fws.gov/redwolf/Today, more than 100 red wolves roam their native habitats in eastern North Carolina
I actually did a fair amount of homework on Red Wolves because about 15 years ago I took a newbie hunting in the north Georgia mountains and he swears up, down, and sideways that he saw a wolf. I still bet it was a big coyote, but given that their is a red wolf population a few hundred miles away in NC and confirmed sightings less than that, it killed my certainty.
Move another few hundred miles to LA, and I'd put the odds truly at near zero. The coyotes around here vary a lot in color and if I saw that guy it wouldn't cross my mind as odd in any way other than bigger than average, but not wildly so.
SpinnerMan wrote:LA is a big stretch.
If anyone knows who shot the footage, I’d really like to speak to them. I showed it to Dave Mech, Jim Shaw and other guys involved in the red wolf recovery program in the early 70’s and they all think that the animals in the video look like the animals they found in SE TX and SW LA in the early 70’s… Those animals became the founders of the captive breeding program. We’d really like to look at the animals over there to see if there might be a pocket of wolves. Any help finding the videographer would be greatly appreciated.
Bufflehead wrote:I've done a fair amount of homework on "red wolves" as well. I live in the five county recovery area that they claim was part of their historical range but their own data proves was not. I'm also a member of a 15,000+ acre hunt club that is surrounded on three sides by the NWR that these wolves call home. As far as them claiming there are 100 or so in the wild, they don't have a clue how many there are or where they are. You can read the thread I linked above if you want to know the truth about Red Wolves in NC.SpinnerMan wrote:Bufflehead wrote:Looks like one of the endangered red wolves the government has dumped on our area.
Odds are extremely long that that is what it was. The color certainly is in the range, but if you look at my link, Eastern Coyotes also have wolf in them and I've heard that Red Wolves aren't really their own species, but just a coyote/wolf cross with a higher portion of wolves than eastern coyotes. I have no idea about the truth of that.
http://www.fws.gov/redwolf/Today, more than 100 red wolves roam their native habitats in eastern North Carolina
I actually did a fair amount of homework on Red Wolves because about 15 years ago I took a newbie hunting in the north Georgia mountains and he swears up, down, and sideways that he saw a wolf. I still bet it was a big coyote, but given that their is a red wolf population a few hundred miles away in NC and confirmed sightings less than that, it killed my certainty.
Move another few hundred miles to LA, and I'd put the odds truly at near zero. The coyotes around here vary a lot in color and if I saw that guy it wouldn't cross my mind as odd in any way other than bigger than average, but not wildly so.
SpinnerMan wrote:How big do you think he was? Remember their hair is a lot thicker than a dog, so when you skin them there is a lot less there than you start. Never seen a coyote or wolf skinned, but a skinned fox is damn small compared to what it was with its fur coat still on.
Rick wrote:If he's taken over that turf, which appears the case, I'm pretty certain I'll have plenty of potential shots at him, but with the exception of one eaten up with mange, I've not killed a coyote on purpose since finishing one with a tire tool well over twenty years ago. (Whacked one with my truck in the fog the very next morning after doing that and swearing off killing them and hit another in heavy pre-dawn rain a few seasons ago.) Way too much like killing a dog for me, and they serve the rice farmers by eating levee-breaching muskrats and nutrias.
Tomkat wrote:I don't think that's a coydog; I think that is an adult male coyote, with no domestic dog in him.
That's the Alpha dog in his range, all challengers will fall by the wayside.
Choot 'em!!!
Goldfish wrote:Might have something to do with you not shooting the yotes
Deltaman wrote:WOW! Rick, your mention of them keeping the nutria and muskrat population in check, is the first positive thing I have ever heard of when it comes to them, and better understand why you don't shoot them. Great pics by the way
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