Whereas wolves are carnivorous apex predators that typically eat large prey and will occasionally eat small prey, coyotes, conversely, are both predators and scavengers that typically eat small ...

Coyotes can sometimes look like wolves from a distance—but there are some key differences between the two species.

Yes, wolves are bigger and coyotes are smaller, but there’s more to it than that. Let’s compare and contrast a wolf vs. coyote.

Grey wolves and coyotes, distinct North American canids, exhibit unique survival strategies. While larger wolves form packs to hunt large prey, smaller, adaptable coyotes often hunt alone ...

Some coyotes have cross-bred with wolves and dogs, and they may be around that size. But the Saarloos wolf dog’s German-shephard-like face usually sets it apart.

What do wolves eat? That all depends on what kind of prey is available where they live, along with the time of year.

Wolves Are Still With Us Although extirpated from Maine by the 1890s, wolf DNA survives in the state’s thriving coyote population.

But wolves are not part of our landscape. Here, we have a wild canine, but it’s a unique wild canine, in that our coyotes’ ancestral mothers were western coyotes, but their ancestral fathers were ...

Many coyote generations ago, coyotes moved eastward from the west and some, in Canada, mated with remnant wolves that could no longer find mates of their own species, and later with dogs.

Coyotes are closely related to domestic dogs and wolves. They are slightly smaller than wolves, weighing between 20 to 50 pounds and standing at about 3 feet tall.

Coyote: Coyotes are opportunistic feeders and have a more varied diet. While they do hunt small mammals such as rodents, hares, and birds, they are also known to eat fruits, carrion, and human refuse.