Giant coyote killed in southern Michigan turns out to be a gray wolf — despite the species vanishing from region 100 years ago

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A hunter who killed a gray wolf during a legal coyote hunt in Michigan's Lower Peninsula in January said he mistook the animal for a large coyote.

Giant coyote killed in southern Michigan turns out to be a gray wolf — despite the species vanishing from region 100 years ago : Read more

 

[DAR]

If the gray wolf was huge, so much larger than a coyote, how did the hunter make such a mistake?

 

[kyancey49441]

If the gray wolf was huge, so much larger than a coyote, how did the hunter make such a mistake?

I don't know. Coyotes are tiny in comparison to a wolf and they really don't look alike. They look like a husky, except like twice the size. As a dog person, I couldn't hunt a canine to kill. I hope the remains are given to a tribe.