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[quote=Anonymous][quote] Genetic mashups, howling hybrids, the coyotes that have spread throughout Virginia over the past 30 to 40 years do indeed bear a healthy helping of wolf in their DNA.

That’s what biologist Dr. Christine Bozarth found in a study she conducted, analyzing DNA from coyotes in Northern Virginia—animals that are mostly coyote, with “dashes of gray wolf and domestic dog,” says Bozarth…

… Bozarth wasn’t surprised that the results of her study confirmed that hypothesis. But, she says, “There was a lot of wolf—I was kind of surprised by that.” What she also hadn’t anticipated was DNA evidence suggesting that coyotes had also come into Virginia from the south, hybridizing with red wolves that now are found only in eastern North Carolina.

Thanks to that wolf DNA, says Bozarth,[b] Virginia’s coyotes can be as big as 50 to 80 pounds, making them much larger than their western counterparts, which usually are around 30 to 40 pounds at maturity. [/b]Their behavior, however, remains coyote-like. Coyotes mate for life, and “they don’t really exhibit the same pack behavior that wolves do,” says Bozarth. “They usually hunt either by themselves or in pairs.” They also tend to be shy and reclusive; Bozarth spent three years collecting coyote poop (it’s a glamorous life in field biology) at Quantico Marine base for her study and only saw an actual coyote once. [/quote]

http://www.virginialiving.com/culture/the-coywolves-cometh/[/quote]

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