Wolf or Coyote?

[Jeff]

The pond continues to draw critters. The buck was 2 nights before the canine. I was able to superimpose the photos to show scale.  My first impressions are a healthy coyote, but its so big!



 

 

 

[btulloh]

Not a coyote. Is the third picture a composite?

[Chuck White]

Of course I'm not sure, but looks to heavy to be a coyote, so I say wolf.

[Dakota]

Well nourished coyote.

[OntarioAl]

Wolf
Al

[beenthere]

Should see tracks to help identify. 
Recall member Nailhead (may he rest in peace) showed us wolf tracks on our 2007 ATV ride at his place/location in the UP. 

[Jeff]

Yea, its a composite. I could use the Rock to easily register the trailcam photos together.

I walked down looking for tracks.  We got rain, so I didn't find any great one, but I found enough to know the track was much smaller than Cedar's, so I'm calling it coyote.

Lets see iff this facebook video link works. Its the deer, the coyote, then composited together. Actually kinda neat.

Fb video of deer and coyote

[snobdds]

Wolfs have very narrow chests with bowed out front feet. 

That is a coyote. 

[SwampDonkey]

Looks like coyote to me. 

[Walnut Beast]

Coywolf are hybrids of coyote and wolf and they are out there. 

[Jeff]

Got tracks. Hmmmm Still coyote?


 

 

[Peter Drouin]

A lot bigger track than here from our Coyotes. 

[YellowHammer]

Coyotes here are fairly small and certainly don't have the good posture and broad chest yours is showing.  If he's a coyote, he's of the Schwarzenegger breed.  Plus the noses of our coyotes are long and narrow.  

Anyway, pretty cool picture.  Do you have wolves in the area?  We don't have them here, or haven't had a wolf down here since our Governor was kicked out.  

[Jeff]

Oh yea, we have wolves. The video clip is pretty cool.

[firefighter ontheside]

Coyote track should be about 3" and wolf about 5".  Large dog would somewhere in between.

[fluidpowerpro]

Based on the profile of the snout, I'd say wolf. A coyote would be longer and more pointed.

[KEC]

Not-so-big ears lean toward wolf, too.

[chet]

I may be off base here but I'm thinking dog or very well nourished wolf pup. All the wolves I've seen in these parts are much more lanky. These were near da house last year.



 
another this spring



 

We had one within 20 feet of da house a few times this spring, but was never fast enough ta get a photo.

[barbender]

 That one is a head scratcher...it looks more like a coyote, but it sure is big.

 I'm wondering if it's a dog, too. Something about the face doesn't log coyote, and not wolf either.
 

[Southside]

I had quite a bit of experience with Coyotes in Maine before moving here, much bigger dog up there than here.  I have also seen one set of confirmed wolf tracks along the Quebec border, saw one wolf in Idaho but that's going to be a different critter all together.  The tracks you have there are huge compared to the ones I saw that time.  Those were bigger than my labs tracks, but not like the ones you have there.  

[chet]

Tracks I've seen (I actually seen the animal make) the front pads looked far more pronounced and extended further forward of the rear pad. The claws  were also very pronounced. 

[SwampDonkey]

We have big coyotes here, like in Maine. They are also referred to as Coydogs here. They are bigger animals than Walt Disney's desert coyotes.

MY cousin shot and trapped 16 one fall here and never made a dent, I saw coyote tracks a plenty that winter.



They like moose antlers like many other critters.



Funny that area the coyote was standing is all spruce canopy now. I had to cut out a path through there. It was an old logging road from the 70's. Winter road.

One wolf was killed a few years ago believed to be transient from Quebec. No one has ever found a population of them in NB since before the rail road. The old guides of the late 1800's never mentioned wolf or coyote, and there was hardly a deer here until 1910 or so. First coyote I saw here was in the late 70's. Trapped and on a stretcher. My grandfather, and especially his brother, were trappers since the 1920's. His brother also bought and sold fur to the HBC. He caught a timber wolf, which was actually a neighbor's dog. Had all the characteristics of a wolf and HBC didn't know the difference. The dog was a bit feral and was always running and chasing deer.

[Raider Bill]

I'm thinking that's a good looking dog.

[Jeff]

It aint no dog I'd bet on that. 

[doc henderson]

I have a coyote that was very healthy and young.  had some red and almost looked like a fox.  It is mounted, and I can get a pic later.  we do not have wolves.