True story....I am south west of bells. Bear walked right behind the dollar store. And then was spotted south of me towards tom bean.
Coyote, wolf, or ????
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goeduck
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The last I saw, we had a few hundred wolves in Washington State, most in the NE corner against the Idaho Panhandle Border / Montana. There have been sanctioned kills where they are preying on livestock.
oosik
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It is logical to find that in areas where there are two competing species - the population of both will be reduced. There is a finite food supply for the two competing species. My neighbor has spotted two wolves in our area, in the last three years. In the last three years I've seen no less than 50 to 60 coyotes and no wolves. We also have mountain lions in this area. All three species are competing for a finite food supply. By a many fold factor - coyotes are the majority species.
Alaska is lacking many species. Skunks, raccoons, coyotes, mountain lions and any type of snake, that crawls.
Alaska is lacking many species. Skunks, raccoons, coyotes, mountain lions and any type of snake, that crawls.
2LaneCruzer
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I know I have posted this before, so I apologize in advance if it is becoming redundant. I read an article many years ago on this subject. Apparently the Hudson Bay Company...a fur trading company...has records going back to the early days of this country. An examination of their records showed a correlation between the number of prey furs purchased and the number of predator furs. Seems that when they had a run of a high number of prey furs, it was followed by an increase in the numbers of predator furs; and this rise and fall correlation was continuous.
I know here in Oklahoma, the deer population is very high...and we are beginning to get reports of mountain lion sightings and some videos on security cameras. I expect their numbers to increase, and maybe even some wolves to move into the state as long as the deer population remains high. Don't know about the coyotes; we have plenty, but they have moved out of this area. When we moved in 40 years ago, they would serenade us every night. They were hanging around a lake near here...but haven't heard one in years. The turkey population is getting extremely high now also, and I expect the coyote numbers to keep increasing.
Don't see many rabbits any more, but I suspect that is a result of disease as much as predators...and perhaps competition with the deer and turkeys. When I was a kid during the 50's we had rabbits everywhere, but no turkeys and practically no deer at all. Coyotes were everywhere.
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He is very big how about Bull mastiff Shepard that would give the color and size
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Interesting article>Galveston photographer’s discovery led to breakthrough red wolf study - HoustonChronicle.com
>>>>典hey didn稚 look like coyotes at all. I thought they actually looked like a big Great Dane or something like that, Wooten said. 的 looked at some images of red wolves and it kind of looked like they might have been leaning more towards red wolves than coyotes, so that痴 when I started pursuing somebody to take a look at these animals.
Nearly six years later, Wooten learned that his photographs played a significant role in a groundbreaking genetic study released in December by a group of scientists led by biologists from Princeton University. The study suggests that canids native to Galveston Island carry DNA elements of the red wolf, an animal declared extinct in the wild nearly 40 years ago but whose ancestry has endured in parts of the eastern United States and Gulf Coast, including southern Texas and Louisiana.
Red wolves inhabited the southeastern United States before being declared extinct in the wild in 1980 due to habitat loss, predator control programs, disease, and, ironically, interbreeding with coyotes. A captive breeding program developed in the 1970s helped stave off total extinction, with 14 red wolves able to reproduce.<<<<<<
You see a lot of strange looking coyote X's at the ferry landing on Boliver Peninsula.
>>>>典hey didn稚 look like coyotes at all. I thought they actually looked like a big Great Dane or something like that, Wooten said. 的 looked at some images of red wolves and it kind of looked like they might have been leaning more towards red wolves than coyotes, so that痴 when I started pursuing somebody to take a look at these animals.
Nearly six years later, Wooten learned that his photographs played a significant role in a groundbreaking genetic study released in December by a group of scientists led by biologists from Princeton University. The study suggests that canids native to Galveston Island carry DNA elements of the red wolf, an animal declared extinct in the wild nearly 40 years ago but whose ancestry has endured in parts of the eastern United States and Gulf Coast, including southern Texas and Louisiana.
Red wolves inhabited the southeastern United States before being declared extinct in the wild in 1980 due to habitat loss, predator control programs, disease, and, ironically, interbreeding with coyotes. A captive breeding program developed in the 1970s helped stave off total extinction, with 14 red wolves able to reproduce.<<<<<<
You see a lot of strange looking coyote X's at the ferry landing on Boliver Peninsula.
3Ts
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Neighbors & I have seen a "cat shaped" animal crossing the road (22' wide) where the head is at the edge of the road and tail tip is over the dotted line. Fish & Game says there is no such animal in the area. About 2 years later a neighbor has a picture of a cougar eating one of his chickens.
I attended a landowner's conference recently and one of the things that came up was credibility of sightings. They have 3 categories, 1) pictures or other physical proof, 2) reports from hunters, 3) reports from homeowners, and that reflects the credibility of the sighting.
Molalla1
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He is a beautiful dog Steppenwolfe, very stout. Reminds me of a past dog of ours, half German shepherd, half Rottweiler . .
As kids, rabbit hunting was our entertainment (no video games :laughing
it was great sport, and not bad to eat, and yes we were packing (rifles) going to grade school.atsah
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I have seen many coyotes here in the 50lb range, but they don't look like that animal. I was in Citra FL last month at my sisters horse farm and I saw three what I thought to be coyotes but they didn't look like what I'm use to seeing here, these guys were bigger and had a bigger head and shorter snout. Must be crossed with something else. Within three days I encountered a coral and two big rattle snakes in a rabbit infested cow field. Gotta stay out of there I guess. My sister said the cows will swell up and sometimes die from snake bites..
