Cape Breton Highlands National Park of Canada
The Eastern Coyote - Our Biggest Dog
The eastern coyote is actually a wolf-coyote mix, having interbred with wolves in northern Québec and Ontario as it moved eastwards. The mixed parentage has made it a very effective and adaptable predator.
I agree it had to be a mix breed of wolf or wild dog pack. I was a rancher in Mo years ago. When I first encountered them they would let you drive by them and not move. Once they got a calf or two and we started shooting them they disappeared. Full breed are small. They are tough too. My counterpart shot the front leg off of one at the shoulder and a few months later we saw him with the pack. They are survivors and I don’t think they would normally attack something her size unless they were extremely hungry or they were hybrids. We had more trouble with wild dog packs. They are kind of like cockroaches You won’t stop them. I am now in NC and 10 years ago they weren’t here. Now they are!
That might explain it. That looks a lot bigger and healthier than the coyotes out here in the west.