Eastern coyotes, or coywolves, have ecological and physical characteristics that can fit on a continuum between coyote and wolf. Jonathan Way, Author provided. The term coywolf uses the ...

The term “coywolf” is similar to coydog in that it is sometimes misused to describe an Eastern coyote. A true coywolf is 50 percent coyote and 50 percent wolf. The two species are known to have ...

The eastern coyote is considerably larger than its southwestern cousin. The largest individuals are as big as smaller timber wolves. Adults may range from 35-45 pounds and some large males may exceed ...

WHAT: Eastern Coyote presentation WHEN: 6-8 p.m. July 24 WHERE: Parker River National Wildlife Refuge, 6 Plum Island Turnpike, Newburyport COST: Free ABOUT THE EVENT: Dominic Noce, an intern … ...

After visiting with friends who own a small farm along the edge of a mountain, my wife Karen and I were preparing to climb into our pickup when the first ...

The Central Park coyote, though, is not what’s known as a coywolf — the result of a full-bred wolf mating with a pure-blooded coyote. 4 A jogger encountered the canine of his morning run.

Environmentalists are excited to see the natural expansion of eastern coyotes to Long Island, where apex predators have been practically nonexistent for the past 150 years. To learn more, WSHU’s ...

Over the past decade, the Eastern Coyote has established itself as Long Island’s top land predator — preying on, and competing with, smaller animals such as mice, rats, red foxes and raccoons ...

Eastern coyotes—a subspecies that has coyote, wolf and domestic dog DNA—run in a West Virginia forest. ForestWander.com via Wikimedia Commons under CC BY-SA 3.0. For well over a month, the ...

But up close, or in a confined space, it would be easier to tell the Eastern coyote is larger than the red fox, which is the largest of so-called true foxes. On average, the Eastern coyote weighs ...

Massachusetts is home to the Eastern Coyote, a medium-sized predator and opportunistic feeder, according to MassWildlife. Reportedly, officials estimate there are around 11,500 coyotes in the ...