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Eastern Coyotes of Mt Tom Mass
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Two Eastern Coyotes on the Mt Tom range, western Mass, April 23, 2015, temp mid-40's. To see more, watch the Mt Tom Wild video on this channel, at • Mt Tom Wild: Wildlife on the Mt To... • • What is an eastern coyote, and what should it really be called? : • DNA studies have shown that eastern coyotes (Canis latrans var.) are more coyote than anything else, and are hybrids. They have variously bred with wolves and dogs; some have almost no wolf genes at all. • Roland Kays (Research Associate Professor of Wildlife and Scientist at NC Museum of Natural Sciences, North Carolina State University) says: • Coyotes in the Northeast are mostly (60%-84%) coyote, with lesser amounts of wolf (8%-25%) and dog (8%-11%). Start moving south or east and this mixture slowly changes. Virginia animals average more dog than wolf (85% coyote, 13% dog, 2% wolf) while coyotes from the Deep South had just a dash of wolf and dog genes mixed in (91% coyote, 5% dog, 4% wolf). Tests show that there are no animals that are just coyote and wolf (that is, a coywolf), and there are some eastern coyotes that have almost no wolf at all. In other words, there is no single new genetic entity that should be considered a unique species. Instead, we are finding a large intermixing population of coyotes across the continent, with a smattering of non-coyote DNA mixed in to varying degrees along the eastern edge. The coywolf is not a thing. • • On the other hand, Jonathan G. Way (Research Scientist, Clark University) is of the opinion (https://theconversation.com/why-the-e...) (May 11, 2016) that the term coywolf is appropriate for this animal: • ...my colleague William Lynn (Marsh Institute, Clark University) and I published a meta-analysis in the scientific journal Canid Biology Conservation that summarized recent studies on this creature and confirmed that what we call “coyotes” in northeastern North America formed from hybridization (the mating of two or more species) between coyotes and wolves in southern Ontario around the turn of the 20th century. • In the paper, we suggest that coywolf is the most accurate term for this animal and that they warrant new species status, Canis oriens, which literally means eastern canid in Latin. We based this on the fact that they are physically and genetically distinct from their parental species of mainly western coyotes (Canis latrans) and eastern wolves (Canis lycaon). They also have smaller amounts of gray wolf (Canis lupus) and domestic dog (Canis familiaris) genes.
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