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The coyote is the mammal equivalent of the killer bee.

Twilight Hue

Twilight, not bright nor dark, good nor bad.
And they are on coyotes menu, so the poor maligned beasty helps keep the mouse population in check.
You should have seen the cats in one rodent video. They didn't seem to quite know what to do in face of the overwhelming buffet. Lol


Personally I think you should have had like 10 or 20 minks and some dogs although I suspect you would need a lot more.

Not for the faint-of-heart unless you're a farmer overwhelmed with rodents , or a mink, or a dog....


Still , amazing animals at work.
 

columbus

yawn <ignore> yawn
No member of the animal kingdom is as adaptable as the lowly coyote.
You can't really believe this, can you?
The coyote is the canine equivalent of the human.

Crafty, adaptable, speciocentric, ruthless, omnivorous, they're more like us than chimpanzees are,
in a remarkable number of ways.
Tom
 

Audie

Veteran Member
Hunting coyotes also increases the risk of predation of the remaining ones against livestock for a variety of reason or even humans (though attacks of coyotes against human are still rather rare in the grand scheme of things).

It is well established that hunting coyotes
has two main effects:
The coyotes get much more wary
The coyotes increase their reproductiverate to
compensate for any losses.
 

Twilight Hue

Twilight, not bright nor dark, good nor bad.
You can't really believe this, can you?
The coyote is the canine equivalent of the human.

Crafty, adaptable, speciocentric, ruthless, omnivorous, they're more like us than chimpanzees are,
in a remarkable number of ways.
Tom
I agree with you although maybe in this context......

 

shunyadragon

shunyadragon
Premium Member
Actually many if not most inhabiting the urban areas of North America are "coywolves," and they appear more adaptable to urban areas than either coyotes and wolves. They are interesting evolutionary adaptation to urban areas replacing wolves and coyotes as the predators around cities in North America..

They have also cross bred with dogs, and it reflects in their DNA particularly those in more urban areas. The coywolf is not a species, but an evolving subspecies.

Coywolf - Wikipedia

Coywolf (sometimes called woyote) is an informal term for a canid hybrid descended from coyotes, eastern wolves and gray wolves. All members of the genus Canis are genetically closely related because their chromosomes number 78, therefore they can interbreed.[1] One genetic study indicates that these two species genetically diverged relatively recently (around 55,000–117,000 years ago). Genomic studies indicate that nearly all North American gray wolf populations possess some degree of admixture with coyotes following a geographic cline, with the lowest levels occurring in Alaska, and the highest in Ontario and Quebec, as well as Atlantic Canada.
 

shunyadragon

shunyadragon
Premium Member
Another interesting reference to the coywolf. There adaptation to urban environments is their behavior is more stealthy, and not pack oriented hunters, and they tend to avoid human contact though small pets are sometimes a part of their diet. They actually for the most part their presence goes unnoticed by urbanites, which gives them a survival advantage over wolves. Their appearance is more a medium sized shaggy mixed breed dog.

The North Carolina Red Wolf is likely a variation of the coywolf.

Coywolves are Taking Over Eastern North America | Smart News | Smithsonian Magazine

Coywolves are Taking Over Eastern North America
Coywolves are not ‘shy wolves’—they are coyote-wolf hybrids (with some dog mixed in) and now number in the millions
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(www.ForestWander.com via Wikimedia Commons (CC-BY-3.0))
By Marissa Fessenden
SMITHSONIANMAG.COM
NOVEMBER 3, 2015
even cities. What they may not know is that eastern coyotes aren’t true coyotes at all. They might better be known as hybrids, or coywolves.

Coywolves only emerged over the last century or so and have since spread successfully over much of eastern North America, reports Zachary Davies Boren for The Independent.

As deforestation, hunting and poisoning depleted the population numbers of eastern wolves, they interbred with western coyotes. A report from PBS writes that the first eastern coyote or coywolf appeared around 1919 in Ontario, Canada. Today, wolf DNA has popped up in "coyote" poop as far south as Virginia.

The hybrid, or Canis latrans var., is about 55 pounds heavier than pure coyotes, with longer legs, a larger jaw, smaller ears and a bushier tail. It is part eastern wolf, part wester wolf, western coyote and with some dog (large breeds like Doberman Pinschers and German Shepherds), reports The Economist. Coywolves today are on average a quarter wolf and a tenth dog.

That blend helps make the hybrid so successful that it now numbers in the millions, Roland Kays of North Carolina State University tells
 

Stevicus

Veteran Member
Staff member
Premium Member
That coyote is a menace. That time he used the giant magnet, it caused millions in damage.

 

shunyadragon

shunyadragon
Premium Member
The coywolf will likely completely replace the Eastern Wolf and coyote in the Eastern United States. Natural evolution at work.
 
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