Ethics, safety, and fair chase hunting demands people should not be able to bait coyotes and engage in “recreational” hunting from their easy chair next to their window-
On this blog we have often talked about the disproportionate favoritism that hunters generally receive over other users of wildlife. Well, recently one of my radio-collared eastern […]
Continue Reading →Massive success brings Minnesota, Michigan, Wisconsin wolf population far above Idaho, Montana and Wyoming-
It certainly is time to delist the wolves of the Great Lakes. Their populations are secure. They have a huge prey base, and as we have seen from the Idaho and Montana hunting seasons, even abusive hunts do not wipe out […]
Continue Reading →Important genetic study confirms Massachusetts coyotes are part eastern wolf-
Dr. Jon Way who often comments on this forum is the lead author of a paper about to appear entitled, “Genetic Characterization Of Eastern “Coyotes” In Eastern
Massachusetts.” He has allowed me to post a draft of this paper.
These relatively large canids are […]
Continue Reading →The wolf was not the gray wolf, however, it was the Eastern wolf — canis lycaon-
Dr. Jon Way has been telling us this for some time. I see he has changed his suburban coyote page to the “coywolf page.”
Broken link now fixed. Coywolves’ a product of evolution. By […]
Continue Reading →Wylie Coywolf: The coyote-wolf hybrid has made its way to the Northeast. By Carina Storrs. Scientific American.
This is hardly new news on this blog, but important for newcomers.
It does show that where there is a major ecological niche, it will be filled. Canids evolve rapidly and are the epitome of a generalist […]
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