{"id":12382,"date":"2013-10-26T07:04:58","date_gmt":"2013-10-26T11:04:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/?p=12382"},"modified":"2013-10-26T08:55:59","modified_gmt":"2013-10-26T12:55:59","slug":"more-on-moose-and-coyotes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/2013\/10\/26\/more-on-moose-and-coyotes\/","title":{"rendered":"More on moose and coyotes"},"content":{"rendered":"
\"Study<\/a>

A new study shows that coyotes prey on adult moose as well as calves. Photo: Tim Redpath<\/a>, creative commons, some rights reserved<\/p><\/div>\n

Last week different NCPR blog posts discussed new problems for moose<\/a> and weighed in on living with coyotes<\/a> – including a number of informative comments on both posts.<\/p>\n

Here’s a small follow-up that concerns both creatures. As reported by Tom Spears in the Ottawa Citizen<\/a> and Emily Chung for the CBC,<\/a> recently-published research by J.F. Benson and B.R. Patterson indicates coyote or coyote-wolf hybrids in Ontario are able to hunt not just sick or young moose, but adult moose too.<\/p>\n

Published by NRC Research Press, the study is titled: Moose (Alces alces<\/em>) predation by eastern coyotes (Canis latrans<\/em>) and eastern coyote \u00d7 eastern wolf (Canis latrans \u00d7 Canis lycaon<\/em>) hybrids<\/a><\/p>\n

Lead author John Benson did most of the research west of Ontario’s Algonquin Park while a graduate student at Trent University. Benson is now a wildlife research biologist<\/a> with the Alaska Department of Fish and Game with a strong background in the area of wolf-coyote hybridization.<\/p>\n

\"What<\/a>

What we call the eastern coyote is really a coyote-wolf hybrid. Photo: Dana Moos<\/a>, creative commons, some rights reserved<\/p><\/div>\n

Some of the comments on the CBC article were dismissive of the findings, saying that isn’t news (was already known to happen) or represents a waste of research funds. “My uncle who hunts says” or “one time I saw” can be valid, useful information. But – like it or not – claims of fact often require formal studies and peer-review by recognized experts to be accepted in the scientific community.<\/p>\n

This topic extends to questions about what’s a wolf, what’s a coyote and what happens when the two inter-breed. Here’s more<\/a> on\u00a0 grey wolves, eastern wolves, western coyotes and coywolves (a hybrid) from CBC’s “The Nature of Things”.<\/p>\n

While wolves and coyotes do not usually threaten humans<\/a>, on rare occasions it has happened, as appears to have occurred in this fatal 2009 coyote attack in Cape Breton, Nova Scotia<\/a>.<\/p>\n

A 2012 incident in British Columbia<\/a> , while alarming, was less serious, when a man who admitted he smelled like fried chicken was chased by a coyote as he cycled home.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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