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The coyote (Canis latrans), also known as the American jackal, prairie wolf, or brush wolf, is a species of canine native to North America.It is smaller than its close relative, the gray wolf, and slightly smaller than the closely related eastern wolf and red wolf.
This canine has been named Canis latrans var. [3] and has been referred to as the eastern coyote, northeastern coyote, coywolf, [4] and the southern tweed wolf. [5] [6]Coyotes and wolves first hybridized in the Great Lakes region, followed by a hybrid coyote expansion that created the largest mammalian hybrid zone known. [7]
Canis latrans harriscrooki [6] (Slaughter, 1961) [7] [8] is another extinct Late Pleistocene coyote that once inhabited what is now Texas. Slaughter described it as being wolf-like and was distinguished from other coyotes by a well-developed posterior cusp on its p2 (the second premolar on its mandible), a longer tooth row relative to the depth of its mandible, a reduced distance between ...
Canis is a genus of the Canidae family, including domestic dogs, wolves, coyotes, and jackals.
Around 5 million years ago, some of the Old World Eucyon evolved into the first members of Canis, [13] In the Pliocene, around 4–5 Mya, Canis lepophagus appeared in North America. This was small and sometimes coyote-like. Others were wolf-like. C. latrans (the coyote) is theorized to descend from C. lepophagus. [14]
The coyote (Canis latrans) is a native species to North America. They can live up to a lifespan of fourteen years, with their size ranging from 81–94 cm (32 to 37 inch) head to body, and weigh 9–23 kg (20–50 pounds). [14] Coyotes' diet mostly consists of mammals, fruits, birds, grass and insects.
Eastern coyote, Canis latrans Coyote. Distribution: Maine, New Hampshire, Vermont, Massachusetts, Connecticut, and Rhode Island. Subspecies: Canis latrans thamnos according to Hall (1981). Wozencraft (2005) also recognizes C. l. thamnos as a valid subspecies. Whitaker and Hamilton (1998) recognize all New England Canis latrans as C. l. latrans.
A coywolf is a canid hybrid descended from coyotes (Canis latrans), eastern wolves (Canis lycaon), gray wolves (Canis lupus), and dogs (Canis familiaris). All of these species are members of the genus Canis with 78 chromosomes; they therefore can interbreed. [1]