They have been getting bigger and expanding both their range and population numbers over the years since mating with wolves.
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Coywolves are Taking Over Eastern North America
Coywolves are not ‘shy wolves’—they are coyote-wolf hybrids (with some dog mixed in) and now number in the millions
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Marissa Fessenden
SMITHSONIAN.COM
NOVEMBER 3, 2015
even cities. What they may not know is that
eastern coyotes aren’t true coyotes at all. They might better be known as hybrids, or coywolves.
Coywolves only emerged over the last century or so and have since spread successfully over much of eastern North America,
reports Zachary Davies Boren for The Independent.
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