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General Forums => The O' Club => Topic started by: Frodo on March 24, 2011, 07:44:47 PM
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:O I have seen some big ones here but damn! First link is Missouri Dept. Conservation report second link better picture.
http://mdc.mo.gov/newsroom/hunter-shoots-unusually-large-coyote-northwest-missouri
http://www.predatorwild.com/topic/11282-104-lb-missouri-coyote/
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that looks very much like a wolf... :O
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Dang! Good thing that ones out of the mix. Would hate to see 100lb+ Coyotes running around where I live, and they would hate to be running around where I live as well. ;)
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<---- waiting for any one of several people to come in here, flipping out...... :uhoh
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Just by glancing at the fur I would think wolf. I shot a 40 lb coyote a couple years ago and it looked as big as a German Shepard. I can't imagine seeing a 100 lb coyote in the woods.
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that looks a whole lot more like a wolf than a coyote.
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Could be a Coywolf, it's been happening in the NE a lot more often lately it seems. Possible it could be starting to happen out west.
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/32976657/ns/technology_and_science-science/
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Thats not a pure coyote.
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Thats what they look like here in Ga. Just not that big. Very smart animal.
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I'd be questioning the DNA test. Looks like a wolf!
Sometimes there have been wolf sightings caused by people dumping these wolf or hybrid pets when they cannot handle them anymore. Plus I've always been curious if domestic dogs turned feral ever mated with coyotes.
I guess on the other hand it could just be a freak. Sometimes people and pumpkins grow extra big.
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Interesting.
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Definately not full coyote.
On a side note there's a coyote on my granddads farm thats HUGE, and barks like a domestic dog instead of howling. It's definately mixed with some kind of domestic dog but we haven't been able to get a shot at it yet.
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Coyotes around here are about the size of a German Shepard, but are very scrawny and have red fur. Often heard, but very rarely seen.
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:O I have seen some big ones here but damn! First link is Missouri Dept. Conservation report second link better picture.
http://mdc.mo.gov/newsroom/hunter-shoots-unusually-large-coyote-northwest-missouri
http://www.predatorwild.com/topic/11282-104-lb-missouri-coyote/
I've seen some big coyotes but that has to be some type of cross-breed, 104 pounds!?
Thats what they look like here in Ga. Just not that big. Very smart animal.
They all look like this guy, just smaller? Going by physical apearance alone you'd swear it's a different subspecies than the coyotes we have out here where I live.
Coyotes around here are about the size of a German Shepard, but are very scrawny and have red fur. Often heard, but very rarely seen.
That fits my coyote's descritpion. Maybe it's this big guy's thicker coat and coloration that just give him a wolf apearance, but still...
GI Coyote:
(http://grand-oaks.org/images/coyote.jpg)
104lb Coyote:
(http://i358.photobucket.com/albums/oo22/cmclari/big_coyote_2.jpg)
North American Timber Wolf:
(http://gallery.photo.net/photo/8590640-lg.jpg)
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Sure looks more like a Timber Wolf. They were a native species here, but supposedly were hunted to extinction decades ago. Would be pretty cool if they were coming back. :cheers:
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I think he just shot someone's dog and is trying to say it's a coyote in order to get out of trouble.
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Its a choupakabra!
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I think he just shot someone's dog and is trying to say it's a coyote in order to get out of trouble.
Does favor a Husky. Either way that's not a full blood coyote what so ever.
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someone had mentioned wolfs breeding with coyotes in the NE... I heard that somewhere too. were i live wolves are so rare you could say theyve been hunted to extinction. I've had horses growin up my whole life, we had one run in with wolves a good 10 or 12 years ago, havent seen any since.
back to OP...thats got somethin other then coyote in it, and seein the picture of the Timber Wolf up close..I would say wolf is interbred.
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Timber wolf head is about twice the size of a husky's head. Passion a wolf I sponsor is much bigger than a husky although she doesn't have as much body fat as a husky. That 104lb critter looks alot like someones husky.
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Looks mixed to me. When I grew up in VT, I used to shoot coydogs all the time. They run deer to death up there so Fish N' Game allowed open season on them. Out here in CO, we have shot a few coyotes this year, nothing that big. Usually around 45 lbs ish. We saw what we believed to be a Wolf hunting Elk this year. It definitely was not a Coyote and it was a long way from civilization to be a hybrid.
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Timber wolfs are all but extinct in the NW. The introduction of the Canadian Grey wolf in a effort to bring back the wolf population in the North west has killed off the Timber wolf population which is indigenous to the NW.
The WOLF population MUST be Controlled by Hunting and trapping.
Scott
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We are seeing coyotes up here in Canada,Ont.where they have never been before! We have the last population of Red wolf left about 3 hours north of me and there's fear of a mixing of the 2.They have found plenty of dog/coyote mixes and this is a real problem as these animals arent afraid of man so much,some have even attacked small dogs that were on a leash.
A large part of the problem is in people trying to keep wolves and wolf/dog mixes as pets.Same goes for most of the suspected cougar sightings,for the most part they are thought of as released pets.Until just this year you could own just about any exoctic pet,provided the town/city you lived in had no bylaw against it.Four months ago a man who lived just outside the city I live in was killed by his pet tiger,ya the tiger was never a problem until this 1 time.... :rolleyes:
I dont hunt and when I fish I release my catch but I'd be the first to shoot any coyote/cat/whatever....if I had a gun.....
:salute
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half wolf
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half wolf
That's what I think too. We shoot quite a few coyotes here in Illinois, it is one of a very small number of animals that we are allowed to hunt with a rifle here in the People's Republic of Illinois. I've never seen one even close to that size! Wow!
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ya all you gotta do is look at the thing, its very "grey" not red, besides its 104 lbs :rofl
its ether half wolf, or half wolf hybrid,I would be more inclined to believe its Hybrid, they just said its a Coyote, to stop people from panicking "ohh wolves are back"
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ya all you gotta do is look at the thing, its very "grey" not red, besides its 104 lbs :rofl
its ether half wolf, or half wolf hybrid,I would be more inclined to believe its Hybrid, they just said its a Coyote, to stop people from panicking "ohh wolves are back"
I agree, most likely a hybrid.