I don’t think it unheard of for a wolf to breed with a coyote (or dog), but their heat cycles make it unlikely from what I have read. I had what I thought were coydogs around for a while. Turned out they were just huge, healthy coyotes.
This guy is really beautiful. The fact that he doesn’t seem to show any fear of humans makes me wonder if he was initially a “pet”?
There are a LOT of coyotes in Michigan these days. I was out with the dogs a bit ago and could hear them yipping just a few hundred yards away just outside town.