especially in areas where wolf populations are retreating or have been eradicated. This interbreeding has led to the creation of a hybrid species known as the "coywolf." These animals are larger ...

The Central Park coyote, though, is not what’s known as a coywolf — the result of a full-bred wolf mating with a pure-blooded coyote. “The eastern coyote,” said Roland Kays, a zoologist ...

coyote hunters and trappers may accidentally kill a wolf. “For far too long state agencies in the Northeast have undervalued the hybrid status of the eastern coyote or coywolf,” said Jonathan Way, ...