if you do, ya better switch the .45, for a 30mm... 8^)
Posted on 03/09/2014 2:01:08 PM PDT by DBCJR
The coywolf, a mixture of western coyote and eastern wolf, is a remarkable new hybrid carnivore that is taking over territories once roamed by wolves and slipping unnoticed into our cities. Its appearance is very recent — within the last 90 years — in evolutionary terms, a blip in time. Beginning in Canada but by no means ending there, the story of how it came to be is an extraordinary tale of how quickly adaptation and evolution can occur, especially when humans interfere. Tag along as scientists study this new top predator, tracking it from the wilderness of Ontario’s Algonquin Park, through parking lots, alleys and backyards in Toronto all the way to the streets of New York City. (Video streaming restricted to U.S. and Territories.)
We have two problems here. In NC the coyotes are interbreeding with the red wolf and the scientists are worried that the true red wolf is going to disappera. Of course they don’t where the state line is so you have to assume they are in GA also.
We also have the coyotes breeding with dogs which gives you a bigger coyote and not afraid of people. We have had a couple of run ins while walking the dogs. Mr. GG2 always carries especially at night.
Yup.
I do know a woman who successfully kept pure wolves which are much more stable and predictable than dog/wolf crosses.
However, she was a professional dog trainer and understood wolf psychology.
She always treated them as wolves.
I could tell many more, less happy tales, though.
That was very interesting - thanks for posting!
We have coyotes in my neighborhood - I’m pretty sure they are the reason my dog starts barking and growling like crazy at night.
Because they’re dogs?
Lots of dog breeds kinda look like wolves/coyotes.
These are wolf-coyote hybrids, according to the DNA from 700 separate and geographically separated specimens.
I can always tell what’s up on the ridge by *how* my dogs react.
Deer, coywolves, humans, coons, etc; bark and growl like crazy.
Bears?
Alert, watchful *silence*.
LOL
Carolina dogs or the coywolves?
The coywolves. The Dixie Dingo is another mystery.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/581423/posts
Thanks for posting that. It is an excellent video.
You might begin here:
http://wildlife.ohiodnr.gov/species-and-habitats/nuisance-wildlife
The Ohio Dept of Wildlife may be able to provide you with more information.
Correct. It’s an outstanding study.
We’re getting our lines crossed due to too much topic hopping, here.
I agree totally about the coywolves.
What is aggravating are the people swearing by “coydogs”, who, in the same sentence, say they walk their dogs carrying a gun because the coyotes will -kill- their dog if they don’t.
It’s either/or for ‘sex’ or ‘supper’, not both.
;]
Ever seen a Borzoi?
An Azawakh?
A Galgo?
An Airedale/Fox/Welsh Terrier has an unusually long “snout”, relative to its head size.
Yes, some of them do have non-standing ears, and odd coloring, too. About 25-30 years ago, there was a fad of sorts here in the hill country, with people deliberately breeding German Shepherds, Huskies, Malamutes and such to pet coyotes they weren’t even supposed to have and selling the pups, but the fines for that got a little high after awhile.
The game wardens say that these hybrids have become more common here, while the coyote/red wolf hybrids are more common elsewhere. There haven’t been many wolves in Texas for a very, very long time, but there are plenty of coyotes.
The human imagination is a marvelous thing-some people south of here insisted for years they had seen chupacabras-although I doubt they know what one looks like, if it does exist-but they turned out to be dog/coyote hybrids-I thought they looked more like hyenas than any chupacabra I’d heard of ...
Watchful silence is a really smart choice for bears!
Yikes!
Sequence analysis of 112 southeastern US coyotes revealed 24 unique haplotypes. One haplotype was highly divergent from all other coyote haplotypes with 24-30 bp differences in 394-400 bp, and an average divergence of 8.7%. The sequence did not match any canid sequence in Gen- Bank, and we refer to it as la24. This haplotype is more closely related to haplotypes of grey wolves, differing by 6-11 bp and an average divergence of 2.2%. We compared the divergent sequence found in coyotes to those found in a monophyletic group of dogs, designated clade I (Fig. 1, Vilˆ et al. 1999). This group probably represents the earliest radiation of domestic dog (Vilˆ et al . 1999). The domestic dogs in this clade differ from la24 by 2-5 bp and have an average divergence of 0.8%.
People are still selling coyote/dogs for pets, as stupid as that may be.
I really think you just have generic feral dogs running amok.
That’s more common than you’d imagine, even in suburban areas so Texas would be paradise for them, no doubt.
As far as “Red Wolves” go
http://www.nsrl.ttu.edu/tmot1/canirufu.htm
They were thought to be extinct but some were found and bred in captivity and the pups released in the Carolinas.
Apparently they are no longer in Texas.
if you do, ya better switch the .45, for a 30mm... 8^)
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