And lots and lots of hybrids inbetween. Wolf/coyote, called eastern coyotes, dog/wolves, dog/coyotes. Not going to get into it here since wolves are off the endangered list around here, but lots of questions about what a wolf is. DNA just confuses it. Very adaptive animals.
“They’re evolving”... ?
Maybe one of them should run for president.
Here in Adirondacks we have coydogs roaming in packs and wolves roaming as loners. The wolves will not hurt people, just curious. The wolves have white bellies and are in the mountains higher up. This winter no coydog packs at all running around the house, with lots of prey and water in the lower mountains.
Inadvisable to go into the woods here alone unarmed or without a large Lab coz the female coydog will attack you from the rear while the male will decoy you in front if you are alone. Western coyotes I saw in downtown Hayward, CA, are much smaller than the coydogs here. The gray/white wolves here have large wide heads; the coydogs have narrow faces.
A wolf here will approach fearlessly and jump over a leanto blazing night campfire even if you have a .44; the coydog stay away. [My experience as a kid.] I have never seen a coyote here at all probably because the coydogs have been dominant since I remember in 1950`s, when they ran around the house in packs and destroyed the henhouse.