Monday, March 29, 2010

Jon Way Coywolf article to be released soon in Northeastern Naturalist(peer reviewed Journal)

Detailed and passionate(whether that is the right adjective to apply to scientific writing or not.................I believe passionate describes the attached!!) analysis by Jon Way and colleagues making the case for the Eastern Wolf/Western Coyote hybridization events that have produced C. latrans/lycaon..............our Eastern Coyote.  Jon and team lay out the facts for our Eastern Coyote to now be formally recognized as Coywolves.  With Coywolves being a good 10 pounds heavier than our Western coyote(c.latrans) at 30 to 40 pounds(and on occasion 50 pounds), our Northeastern canid has demonstrated that it is better adapted anthropogenically to the modified farm/field/woodland/urban interface habitat that most of the Eastern USA has been transformed into through our human alteration of the landscape.

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