Coyote was my first thought, but I’m no expert.
Three suspects:
Gray wolf, Saarloos wolfdog or Czech wolfdog.
It’s as rare as a fully protected Hillary Clinton Email Server.
Yep, a black and white photo results in a grey wolf.
Meh.
The real question is:
Is it Transgender?
One of Hillary’s hyenas...
So the next step would be to confiscate a bazillion acres to protect it.
IIRC, the DEC was caught cheating with wolf hairs...
And that one came from two.....so the hunt is on and that will take millions in grant money. ;-)
Just wait until there is a bigfoot sighting.
Environmentalists will call for a shut down of the entire country for a protected class specie.
Some will insist that bigfoots are human.
Bigfoots will be determined to be natural-born citizens. They will become a new voting block, and surprise! they are all democrats.
It will be acknowledged that bigfoots are underrepresented at diversity university and require affirmative action.
.....and there is a VERY GOOD REASON for that!
Well-fed.
It looks a little pregnant.
I think more rare and super endangered species should somehow find themselves on celebrety properties
Nah. . . It’s only a dog who thinks it’s a wolf. . . So it’s a wolf.
It is definitely gray.
Maybe they outta use color cameras.
I’m crossing my fingers, too!
Go to San Francisco, Wolfie!
It looks too massive and muscular to be Canis latrans [Coyote], but the angle makes it impossible for me to be sure.
As I recall from my zoology days (when Canis lupus study was my favorite hobby), the wolf - versus the coyote or dog - not only has a more powerful muzzle with a pronounced stop, but has 55% side skull slope angles (from down vertical) versus 45% for other canids, producing a more massive, powerful head with a larger brain cavity.
The best way to identify a true wolf, therefore, might be a frontal head shot, showing both muzzle and skull.
From my past readings, dogs of similar size fear wolves, but wolves do not fear dogs.
I read once of a scientific team on an island off the western Canadian coast studying the indigenous pack (since they knew they were never confusing the members of the sea-locked pack with any other wolves). The wolves were very shy of the humans and posed no threat to them whatsoever, but the big huskies were always afraid. One night, the pack attacked the dogs in their pen; one male wolf was seen loping away at a brisk rate, carrying a husky of similar size in its jaws, with the dog’s body completely off the ground. The dogs, despite their size and numbers, were essentially helpless prey.