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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Contact the NYS DEC in Syracuse. They’ll explain it to you...
The Eastern Coyotes is a hybrid.
Coywolf - Wikipedia
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coywolf
... actually a four-in-one hybrid of coyotes, eastern ... from 1995–2013 found that the northeastern coywolf is 60% western coyote, 30% eastern wolf, ...
https://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2011/11/111107-hybrids...
My first thought was a monsanto project escaped.
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