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The coyote is easily tamed as a pup, but can become destructive as an adult. [213] Both full-blooded and hybrid coyotes can be playful and confiding with their owners, but are suspicious and shy of strangers, [78] though coyotes being tractable enough to be used for practical purposes like retrieving [214] and pointing have been recorded. [215]
Historically found on Indiana’s prairie lands thanks to pressure from wolves, coyotes expanded their range after European colonizers killed all of Indiana’s wolf populations in the early 1900s.
Coyote howling. Yellowstone's coyotes (Canis latrans) are among the largest coyotes in the United States; adults average about 30 pounds (13–14 kg). and some weigh around 40 pounds (18 kg). Coyotes live an average of about six years, although one Yellowstone coyote lived to be more than 24 before she was killed and eaten by a cougar. [11]
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] In 2014, a DNA study of northeastern coyotes showed them on average to be a hybrid of western coyote (62%), western wolf (14%), eastern wolf (13%), and domestic dog (11%) in their nuclear ...
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Eastern coyotes are the most commonly found coyotes in Ohio. They’re the descendants of Western coyotes and the gray wolves that once populated the Great Lakes region.
A researcher studying the impact of coyotes in the city of Austin, Texas found that urban coyote management techniques, including steps to trap and remove coyotes who were exhibiting bold or aggressive behavior, as well as efforts to educate the public about not feeding the animals, had had a positive effect in lessening possible risk to humans or to pets. [14]
10 of the 13 extant canid genera left-to-right, top-to-bottom: Canis, Cuon, Lycaon, Cerdocyon, Chrysocyon, Speothos, Vulpes, Nyctereutes, Otocyon, and Urocyon Canidae is a family of mammals in the order Carnivora, which includes domestic dogs, wolves, coyotes, foxes, jackals, dingoes, and many other extant and extinct dog-like mammals.