Wolves!

campgottagopee wrote

I don't hunt wolves/coyotes, I hunt deer. I shoot coyotes during deer season when I see them.

Sick Bird Rider wrote

campgottagopee wrote

I don't hunt wolves/coyotes, I hunt deer. I shoot coyotes during deer season when I see them.

OK, got it.

campgottagopee wrote

Good to know there are 4 less deer killers in our area now

ScottyJack wrote

pussy

a very scientifically credible article on Wikipedia wrote

Eastern wolf-coyote hybrids, termed eastern coyotes, occur in New England, New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Ontario, Quebec, New Brunswick,[12] Nova Scotia,[13] and Newfoundland and Labrador.[14] The eastern wolf is particularly susceptible to hybridization with the coyote, due to its close relationship to it and its ability to bridge gene flow between both coyotes and gray wolves. Furthermore, hunting over a period of 400 years caused a population decline which reduced the number of suitable mates, thus facilitating coyote gene swamping into the eastern wolf population. Aside from posing a threat to a unique species, the resulting eastern wolf-coyote hybrids are too small in size to substitute pure eastern wolves as apex predators of moose and deer. The main nucleus of pure eastern wolves is currently concentrated within Algonquin Provincial Park. This susceptibility to hybridization lead to the eastern wolf to being listed as Special Concern under the Canadian Committee on the Status of Endangered Wildlife (COSEWIC) and with the Committee on the Status of Species at Risk in Ontario (COSSARO). By 2001, protection was extended to eastern wolves occurring in the outskirts of the Park, thus no longer depriving Park eastern wolves of future pure-blooded mates. By 2012, the genetic composition of the Park's eastern wolves was roughly restored to what it was in the mid-1960s than in the 1980s–1990s, when the majority of wolves had large amounts of coyote DNA.[15]

skimore wrote

Surprising it took over a month for one to find it

freeheeln wrote

very cool site

Sick Bird Rider wrote

And, just for the record, wolves ≠ coyotes. Many wolves will kill coyotes if they come into their territory and only the eastern wolf can readily interbreed with coyotes. Maybe Campy could start a Coyote Death thread so the rest of us can talk about wolves.

campgottagopee wrote

Sick Bird Rider wrote

And, just for the record, wolves ≠ coyotes. Many wolves will kill coyotes if they come into their territory and only the eastern wolf can readily interbreed with coyotes. Maybe Campy could start a Coyote Death thread so the rest of us can talk about wolves.

Well now, Mr Smarty Pants, according to this study our coyotes here in CNY DO have some wolf in them....U can suck it

I was very happy to read that these damn critters don't take as many adult deer as what I would've thought/guessed. They simply kill and eat fawns like popcorn.