{"id":1280,"date":"2013-10-29T09:42:49","date_gmt":"2013-10-29T13:42:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/capecodwildlifecalling.com\/?p=1280"},"modified":"2022-03-14T14:35:46","modified_gmt":"2022-03-14T18:35:46","slug":"cape-cod-coyotes-vs-wolves-what-do-we-have-here","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/capecodwildlifecalling.com\/cape-cod-coyotes-vs-wolves-what-do-we-have-here\/","title":{"rendered":"Cape Cod Coyotes vs. Wolves: What do we have here?"},"content":{"rendered":"

It has been known for several years that the coyotes in the Cape Cod area have much in common with wolves. Mainly wolf DNA. Some coyotes in MA that have been tested have come up as 90% eastern wolf<\/a>. I have received a number<\/a> of reports<\/a> where people claim to have seen large, wolf-like canines<\/a> on Cape Cod.<\/p>\n

Let’s compare a Cape Cod coyote with a Red Wolf. See the two photos below:<\/p>\n

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A CCNS photo of a Cape Cod coyote on the beach in Provincetown<\/p><\/div>\n

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A Wikimedia photo of a captive Red Wolf in Georgia<\/p><\/div>\n

The Wiki Gray Wolf page cites<\/a>:<\/p>\n

The red wolf, a coyote with distant wolf ancestry.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Coywolves<\/h2>\n

Apparently we have what are known as “CoyWolves” here. Which explains the numerous sightings of large, wolf-like canines on Cape Cod.<\/p>\n

…Coywolves have the wolf characteristics of pack hunting and the coyote characteristic of lack of fear of human-developed areas. They seem to be bolder and more intelligent than regular coyotes…<\/p>\n

…Wolves and coyotes are interbreeding to create an animal that has the pack-hunting instinct of wolves and the fearlessness of coyotes…<\/p>\n

…Some of these are 80-pound animals, double the size of a typical coyote that used to be 40 pounds…<\/p>\n

…instances of fearlessness or brazen attacks are usually the result of coyotes that have come to associate food with people<\/a> and lose their natural fear of humans…<\/p>\n

— quotes via Meet the Coywolf<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Here’s a couple images of a coywolf caught on a trail cam in Duxbury, MA<\/a> tell me that doesn’t look like a wolf…<\/p>\n

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Trail Cam CoyWolf<\/p><\/div>\n

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Coywolf Trail Camera Pic<\/p><\/div>\n

What do you think? Have the wolves returned to Cape Cod?<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

It has been known for several years that the coyotes in the Cape Cod area have much in common with wolves. Mainly wolf DNA. Some coyotes in MA that have been tested have come up as 90% eastern wolf. I … Continue Reading \u25ba<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1281,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[8,20,10,6,32,44],"class_list":["post-1280","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-wildlife","tag-animals","tag-coyote","tag-coyotes","tag-observation","tag-predators","tag-wolves"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/capecodwildlifecalling.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1280"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/capecodwildlifecalling.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/capecodwildlifecalling.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capecodwildlifecalling.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capecodwildlifecalling.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1280"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/capecodwildlifecalling.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1280\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1635,"href":"https:\/\/capecodwildlifecalling.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1280\/revisions\/1635"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capecodwildlifecalling.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1281"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/capecodwildlifecalling.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1280"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capecodwildlifecalling.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1280"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capecodwildlifecalling.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1280"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}