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'Wolf-like' creature shot on Montana ranch puzzles experts
- ianai 8y agoThis was way cooler when I read it as “worf-like”
- sxates 8y agoAt least it was an honorable death.
- ASalazarMX 8y agoI'm not sure if animals go to Sto-Vo-Kor, though.
- elipsey 8y agoIt's a... man bear pig.
- excalibur 8y ago> It's too far north to be the legendary Chupacabra Perhaps some gente moved to Montana and took their pet Chupacabra with them.
- phyzome 8y agoIt does look kind of bear like, since the article mentions it...
- Avery3R 8y agowolfdog?
- IronWolve 8y agoCould the Chupacabra actually just be a large shaggy wolf?
- BenjiWiebe 8y agoLooks to me like it has coyote blood in it. My guess is it's a coywolf. Let's wait and see if I'm right.
- williamscales 8y agoAgreed that this seems likely. There's the Eastern coyote which is a hybrid of Western coyote with Eastern wolf and some dog thrown in the mix. Those paws definitely look doglike to me.
- tranchms 8y agoLooks like a bear mated with a wolf. They are both from the Caniformia suborder. Could be an extinct Hemicyoninae, meaning “dog-bear”.
- giarc 8y agoThe long nails (I wouldn't call them claws) look like a dog that doesn't get outside much. If a dog is outside, walking around, digging etc the nails get ground down and would be much shorter. If this were a wild animal, those nails would definitely be shorter. I would say this was a house pet in the very recent past (whether a dog, or some wolf-dog type animal).
- tranchms 8y agoBears and wolves mating: http://www.macroevolution.net/bear-dog-hybrids.html http://www.macroevolution.net/bear-dog-hybrids.html
- excalibur 8y agoThat link quickly led to this, which is hilarious: http://www.macroevolution.net/dog-cow-hybrids.html http://www.macroevolution.net/dog-cow-hybrids.html
- Mbioguy 8y agoCanids are pretty much a superspecies anyways. Consider brown bears and polar bears. We consider them 2 species yet they can successfully interbreed. The main reason they don't is that their ranges haven't historically overlapped. Geography, not biology, was the separator. You could view them as one species with a bivariate distribution, in the late stages of diverging into two. Canids likewise viewed as one species with significant ecological clustering, but divided this time by behavior.
- budhajeewa 8y agoThere hasn't been Direwolves south of the wall for more than two centuries.