Great way to start off the new year!!
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Great way to start off the new year!!
A friend and I decided to go out coyote hunting on Jan. 1st, me never have coyote hunted before didnt know what I was in for. The first three set up we did with no yotes showing up but a flock of toms walking with in 10 ft of me so that was pretty cool. Than the last sit of the day we just get set up and start calling and boom a coyote comes running into the call my buddy shoots him at 40ish yards, me being all excited started going over to him when he says to stay still more might come so he started calling again, I look up and theres another one about 70 yards coming right to me!! he got to about 10 yards when I stopped him and put him down...my first coyote on the first day of the new year!
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My point being, there are many areas where the yotes, and red wolves cross breed. As well as areas where the reds, and the greys cross breed.
I'd have to do some digging, but maybe the breeding between the reds and the greys has been over exaggerated, or even dis-proven, but I know the subject held up the Great Lakes Basin wolf hunt in the courts.
That said, I had to do a double take, and enlarge the photos... IMO the critters have some very wolfish traits. The ears was the first thing that drew my attention, as well as the muzzle of the one on the right. The tail, and muzzle on the one on the left look yotish, can't say fer the one on the right.
Maybe some different angles would help.
I should add as a caveat that I come from wolf country, and don't see yotes very often... The last one I remember seeing was the Winter of 99. From any pics I've seen over the years show that yotes tend to have bigger ears, and a fox-like muzzle. Though I guess the ears could be a regional thing as well... Being larger the farther South you go.
Last edited by Lunkerdog; 01-02-2014 at 05:35 PM.
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I should add as a caveat that I come from wolf country, and don't see yotes very often... The last one I remember seeing was the Winter of 99. From any pics I've seen over the years show that yotes tend to have bigger ears, and a fox-like muzzle. Though I guess the ears could be a regional thing as well... Being larger the farther South you go.