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Grizzly bears, black bears, wolves, coyotes, cougars/ mountain lions,bobcats, wolverines, lynx, foxes, fishers and martens are the suite of carnivores that originally inhabited North America after the Pleistocene extinctions. This site invites research, commentary, point/counterpoint on that suite of native animals (predator and prey) that inhabited The Americas circa 1500-at the initial point of European exploration and subsequent colonization. Landscape ecology, journal accounts of explorers and frontiersmen, genetic evaluations of museum animals, peer reviewed 20th and 21st century research on various aspects of our "Wild America" as well as subjective commentary from expert and layman alike. All of the above being revealed and discussed with the underlying goal of one day seeing our Continent rewilded.....Where big enough swaths of open space exist with connective corridors to other large forest, meadow, mountain, valley, prairie, desert and chaparral wildlands.....Thereby enabling all of our historic fauna, including man, to live in a sustainable and healthy environment. - Blogger Rick

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Monday, April 19, 2010

Western Coyote morphing into Coywolf across New England, NY, Penn and NJ


Across New England and down through New York, Pennsylvania and Northern New Jersey, the hybridized Coywolf(c.latrans(x)lycaon) weighs in a good 10 pounds heavier at 30-45 pounds then the Western Coyote C.latrans which is a 20 to 35 pounder................Thought the pics below showing a Western Coyote living in my neighborhood in Los Angeles versus a Coywolf(New England whereabouts unknown) would reinforce the contrast in heft and facial features between the two "cousins"......................


EASTERN COYOTE(COYWOLF)



WESTERN COYOTE

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