Posted on 05/26/2018 6:43:37 PM PDT by ETL
A large wolf-like animal shot and killed in Montana has wildlife officials and social media wondering what it was.
A rancher shot the gray-haired beast on May 16 when it ventured too close to his livestock in Denton.
The rancher reported that he killed a wolf but wolf specialists looked at photos of the animal and doubted it was a purebred wolf, ABCFoxMontana reported.
“The canine teeth were too shot, the front paws too small and claws on the front paw were too long,” Montana Fish, Wildlife and Parks spokesman Bruce Auchly said in a news release Thursday.
“Nevertheless, social media was quick to pronounce the animal as everything from a wolf to a wolf hybrid to something mythical," he said.
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Anyone can see that it is a chupacabra.
You made me crave a call a big bowl of beef chow mein. My diet will be shot again, but it might be worth it.
Debbie Wolfwoman Schultz.
might it be some kind of dingo-wolf hybrid?
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It looks like the dingo that ate my baby. ;-)
Wolfdog hybrid
The domestic dog (Canis lupus familiaris) is a domesticated form of the gray wolf (Canis lupus lupus) and therefore belongs to the same species as other wolves, such as the dingo (Canis lupus dingo).
Therefore, crosses between these sub-species are biologically unremarkable and not a hybridization in the same sense as an interbreeding between different species of Canidae.
Wolves are different from domestic dogs in that wolves usually have slimmer chests, longer legs, and they also have stronger jaws than that of the domestic subspecies.[13]
The difference in appearance from the wolf to the domestic dog becomes even larger when a mix of the two animals is created. Wolfdogs do not have one common description of their appearance because it varies from one breeding cycle to the next.[13]
It differs from cycle to cycle because the number of wolf genes inherited in the animal differs greatly and is recorded in a percentage form.
The general layout for describing the percentage of wolfdogs is as follows: 1-49% is considered low content (LC), 50-74% is considered to be mid-content (MC), and 75% and higher is considered to be high content (HC).[14]
The percentage of the amount of wolf in a wolfdog decides what the animal will look like. For example, if a wolfdog is 25% husky and 75% wolf, it will appear more like a wolf than a husky because it contains more genes from the wolf.[11]
This means that the appearance of the wolfdog will most likely contain a narrower chest, longer legs, and sharper teeth because it inherited more traits from the wolf parent.[15]
People wanting to improve domestic dogs or create an exotic pet may breed domestic dogs to wolves. Gray wolves have been crossed with dogs that have a wolf-like appearance, such as Siberian huskies, and Alaskan malamutes.
The breeding of wolf–dog crosses is controversial, with opponents purporting that it produces an animal unfit as a domestic pet.
A number of wolfdog breeds are in development. The first generation crosses (one wolf parent, one dog parent) generally are backcrossed to domestic dogs to maintain a domestic temperament and consistent conformation.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canid_hybrid#Wolf_hybrids
Probably a dog/wolf hybrid. It has strange fur. Teeth look more like dog.
Much better than mine. You da man.
Thanks.
Range Mange
Lot a Dingos in Wyoming, you think? Maybe you could call Croc Dundee to help!
He shot Padfoot!
It IS: just a hair-ful chupacabra, so it’s throwing them off.
Going by the headline, I expected to see something truly bizarre; a two headed, hissing Chupacabra with wings and scaly green skin. This is obviously some sort of canine hybrid.
Hey, a dog has needs. Stuff happens in the dark of night.
You're possibly forgetting the migrations that may occur through earth tunnels.
What would happen if Bill Clinton knocked up Loretta Lynch=Taa daa.
LOL!
Lol!
I feel sure there some in the US illegally
What if wily, murderous FOXES can breed with, say, golden labs? Nobody ever addresses fox hybridization.
that should be considered insulting to the dead whatever-it-is. LOL
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