Coy Wolves

This series reconsiders an animal that has survived through adaptation.

Eastern coyotes are a coyote-wolf hybrid, the product of western coyotes breeding with wolves as they slowly expanded their territory eastward. Canny and clever, like coyotes, with the hunting abilities of the wolf, this new form of coyote has been thriving in this region since it arrived in the 1970s. When I was reading about this creature, it occurred to me that the wolf – extinct in New Brunswick for over 100 years – has returned, but in disguise, like grandma in Little Red Riding Hood.