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Anyone have any sauce on the hybridization of eastern coyotes and wolves? I'd love to see some reliable stats.
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Eastern coyotes would have to hybridize with red wolves or eastern wolves. There are no eastern wolves in the US and there are only around 100 red wolves, most of witch are in North Carolina with radio collars, though apparently in 96 they did document several hybrid litters out of the relatively small number of wolves available.

Almost all wolves in the entire LC US were accounted for at one point or another in the recent past, so it should not be too difficult I would think.

a quick wiki says:
"A study showed that of 100 coyotes collected in Maine, 22 had half or more wolf ancestry, and one was 89 percent wolf."
WHO WAS WOLF!?!
I don't know..oh wait "A theory has been proposed that the large eastern coyotes in Canada are actually hybrids of the smaller western coyotes and wolves that met and mated decades ago as the coyotes moved toward New England "

anyway i'm at work so bye
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I'm still surprised there isn't any more statistical data...I mean the latest shit I could pull up was dated '06. With the increasing population of "coyotes" in New York, CT, Mass etc. I'd think that environmentalists would start giving a shit, considering they are a huge problem in suburban areas, and are a threat to hunters (90% of a coyote's diet in the Winter is deer meat).
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The North East has more than enough deer to last through several completely open hunting seasons. And I don't know what they hate more..coyotes eating their pets or deer eating their gardens. Whats does their suburbanization (which has been going on for decades) have to do with environmentalists giving a shit about their hybridization rates?
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