Comments on: Snow Coyotes and Spirit Bears

By: James Sanders

James Sanders — Mon, 08 Apr 2013 01:23:44 +0000

I live in a small town called Rosman, NC. I have had a trail cam out a couple of months and have a beatiful pictures of a white coyote, most people do not believe it is a coyote but the markings are the same as the picture in this article. A very pretty animal.

By: Diane BonnAllen

Diane BonnAllen — Fri, 15 Mar 2013 18:37:36 +0000

I have been blessed w/two Hybrids. One a blue black Wolf/Shepard the other looks like a Jackal/Coyote/Wolf… Jackals and Coyotes both bear spotted coats therefore I am not 100% . Watching their actions ( which are wild ) the blue black is an Alpha Female she w/out hesitation dominates the male whom I believe is a Beta male. When I first adopted the male from a No Kill Shelter it was suggested to me he was a wild non domesticated breed. I am comfortable w/this … at first there was trouble in paradise as my first rescue Alpha waged war my new Beta male stood his ground with feelings of alienation never the less @ half her weight he maneuvered w/swiftness, there was showing of fangs and relentlessness . Alpha not only mounted Beta but with one right foreleg got Beta in a headlock! I naturally did not interfere unless I saw one may actually hurt the other! It was like a beautiful dance of pack behavior w/a pack of two. Today she eats first but shares the same bowl, he’s like a gentleman … she gnaws the bone and gives it to him then he has quite a knack for flipping the bone back to her within a three to five foot radius. I’ve never seen this so I am amazed! He throws the bone from his mouth back to her and caters to her every vocal whim, she is extremely vocal, he talks more with his eyes and has a habitual slinking almost sneaky body language, his facial expressions speak voluminously!! These articles and photos are not only informative yet beautiful, thank you.

By: Chris Green.

Chris Green. — Tue, 05 Mar 2013 21:46:27 +0000

Coywolf are part wolf, part coyote:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coywolf
See: Meet The Coywolf, (45 minutes.)

http://www.cbc.ca/player/Shows/Shows/The+Nature+of+Things/ID/2335216723/

By: Dave N.

Dave N. — Mon, 28 Jan 2013 01:46:07 +0000

As someone who’s always been intrigued by spirit bears, this is a heck of a story to read. Thanks, Carl.

By: Leslie Brunetta

Leslie Brunetta — Sat, 26 Jan 2013 13:37:24 +0000

Just a couple of days after Carl posted this, a friend sent a photo of a wild animal roaming around Medford, MA, that looks like a cross between a coyote and a Bernese mountain dog. I have a question: do all these hybridizations mean that dogs, coyotes, and wolves are not really separate species, at least according to the biological species concept?

By: daniel

daniel — Sat, 26 Jan 2013 03:57:31 +0000

nice site !

By: Jssc R

Jssc R — Fri, 25 Jan 2013 14:59:58 +0000

Believe it or not I think I witnessed one here in north Texas at a park near my home. It was the eeriest sighting – like a spiritual experience.

By: Kathryn Dau-Schmidt

Kathryn Dau-Schmidt — Fri, 25 Jan 2013 02:23:44 +0000

Sorry, just a correction. The coyote was 65.4 pounds and it was trapped.

By: Kathryn Dau-Schmidt

Kathryn Dau-Schmidt — Fri, 25 Jan 2013 02:07:52 +0000

@Ron d’Arcy The coyotes of eastern Canada are much larger than the coyotes of western Canada. They picked up some wolf genes as they moved through Ontario. Just how many wolf genes they picked up is still under investigation, but a 69 pound coyote was shot on a neighboring property this year on PEI and we regularly see coyotes as big as German shepherds. Two articles you may find interesting are “A Comparison of Body Mass of Canis latrans (Coyotes) Between Eastern and Western North America.” By: Way, Jonathan G. Northeastern Naturalist. 2007, Vol. 14 Issue 1, p111-124. 14p. and “A Perspective on the Genetic Composition of Eastern Coyotes.” By: Chambers, Steven M. Northeastern Naturalist. 2010, Vol. 17 Issue 2, p205-210. 6p.

By: Michael Blackwood

Michael Blackwood — Thu, 24 Jan 2013 17:29:57 +0000

Excellent article! I thought you should know, though, that the photos of the white coyote at Salmonier Nature Park were taken by me, not by Dawn Marshall. They were shared with her by one of my colleagues in the NL Wildlife Division (which operates Salmonier Nature Park). [CZ: Thanks! I'll change the credit.]