Coyote or Wolf?

[TxxAgg]

Legs look short but the body looks long. Whatever it is, it’s bigger than a TX yote.

 

[Fetty Wapiti]

The legs look too skinny, def a coyote 100%.

 

[Erict]

Not sure why everyone is complaining about the pics.

You get what you get

You got anything better?

Tactacam sent images are compressed thumbnails and while I can't prove it, it seems like the quality of those has gone downhill in the past few years. A much better quality image will be on the SD card and/or one may request an HD image from the camera using that optional service.

 

[83cj-7]

Looks like an east coast coyote. Here are two from recent years.

Pennsylvania:


West Virginia: (those deer aren’t small)

 

[slatebuilder]

I hate to hijack the thread, but what is this one?

 

[StoneSheep]

Coyote

 

[cnelk]

View attachment 988010I hate to hijack the thread, but what is this one?

Nice pic!

The real issue is if there’s even a remote possibility of these canine being a wolf, what do you do?

 

[Geewhiz]

View attachment 988010I hate to hijack the thread, but what is this one?

That’s a woof. Where (region)was that taken?

 

[elkguide]

Looks like a big western coyote to me.
Having watched wolves throughout the west while working there and taking and watching eastern coyotes, (my largest was scale weighed at 58 pounds) the photo looks like a coyote to me.

 

[wytx]

Ground check it next time, why not shoot even if it's a coyote?
Help the deer.

 

[Chris in TN]

Looks like a big western coyote to me.
Having watched wolves throughout the west while working there and taking and watching eastern coyotes, (my largest was scale weighed at 58 pounds) the photo looks like a coyote to me.

Wow.

I shot a male once that weighed 36. A buddy of mine shot a 42# male once. Another guy, hunting on my buddy's farm, killed one that was right at 49#. I thought it was an absolute monster. I cannot imagine 58#. That's huge.

It's funny when you go out west and see western coyotes. They look tiny. My daughter and I had one walk up within maybe 30 yards of us in October and it looked like a baby.

 

[wind gypsy]

It does look long for a coyote. I cant call it..

 

[cnelk]

Ground check it next time, why not shoot even if it's a coyote?
Help the deer.

You do realize that wolves are protected in Colorado - unlike Wyoming

 

[elkguide]

Wow.

I shot a male once that weighed 36. A buddy of mine shot a 42# male once. Another guy, hunting on my buddy's farm, killed one that was right at 49#. I thought it was an absolute monster. I cannot imagine 58#. That's huge.

It's funny when you go out west and see western coyotes. They look tiny. My daughter and I had one walk up within maybe 30 yards of us in October and it looked like a baby.

My son shot one a couple of months later in the same field that also weighed 58 pounds. A neighboring farmer shot one that weighed (on the local gun shops certified scale) 72 pounds.
According to our Fish and Game, we don't have wolves here but 2 years ago, we had one passing through that hung around for a month or so (couldn't ever get a shot at that "BIG" coyote!). Maybe the wolves inter-breed with the coyotes????

 

[justin davis]

Coyote

 

[RockAndSage]

My son shot one a couple of months later in the same field that also weighed 58 pounds. A neighboring farmer shot one that weighed (on the local gun shops certified scale) 72 pounds.
According to our Fish and Game, we don't have wolves here but 2 years ago, we had one passing through that hung around for a month or so (couldn't ever get a shot at that "BIG" coyote!). Maybe the wolves inter-breed with the coyotes????

This was my understanding of why Eastern coyotes are getting bigger, being hybrids. IIRC, there was a woman killed by a pack of them in New England or that area of Canada, a few years back.