The DNA of some coyotes includes a mixture of wolf and dog genetics, as these canines have interbred in the past. Photograph by Jim Cumming / Adobe stock Outdoorsmen and women have long whispered ...

However, these hybrids are unlikely to occur in the wild. The eastern coyote is sometimes called a coywolf or coydog because they interbred with wolves and dogs many generations ago, during coyote ...

eastern coyote, coydog, Tweed wolf, brush wolf, new wolf, northeastern coyote and now coywolf, with nature documentaries highlighting recent genetic findings. Recently, Roland Kays penned an ...

Coyotes can even produce offspring with dogs and wolves to create a “coywolf or coydog.” Coyotes have a very recognizable canine appearance that they share with wolves, foxes and other four ...

They go by many names: coydog, yodel dog, song dog, trickster, brush wolf, tweed wolf … Most people, including biologists, now generally refer to them as Eastern coyotes (Canis latrans), but ...

The long popular term of coydog appears to be mostly inaccurate. According to Kays, in addition to their greater overall size, coywolves have wider skulls and more powerful jaws than coyotes ...

At first it might seem easy to identify a wolf vs. a coyote. After all, adult wolves are two and even three times larger than adult coyotes. Still, people mistake one canine for the other all the time ...