104 # yote in MO??

[Bonebuster]

I killed a 47 lb coyote in the winter of '05, I would have bet good money it was much heavier.

I can only imagine what a true 104 lb coyote would look like.

What we have when we find a 104 lb coyote, is evolution before our very eyes!

[dragon rider]

Man, it's been a while since I saw Catamount used for mountain lion.  Mountain lion, cougar, panther, puma all seem common but Catamount takes me back to the old Daniel Boone stories and such.

FWIW, that big dog looks like pure unadulterated coyote to me - just one who found himself a landfill or a bunch of dumpsters somewhere around.

you know how big a 100 lb deer is ,just think about that...

[DannyBows]

That one must have been hanging out near a Nuclear Power Plant! I'll bet he glows in the dark too.  

there is one in missouri, and you can hunt around it......

[Mechslasher]

as bonebuster said, evolution.  it is a rule in biology that "mother nature" hates vacuums and evolution is the tool she uses to fill it.  with the eradication of wolves, something will evolve to fill the void.  coyotes are the closest niche animal and over time you will see bigger and bigger yotes in the coming years.  you will also see a change in hunting behavior with yotes going after larger and larger game.  most likey forming more of a pack society to become more successful in hunting larger game.

[macksdad]

That is a big coyote !!!

[SEMO_HUNTER]

Coyotes have already killed people in Canada and other places where they get huge, and are sharing the same strain of DNA that wolves have.
The Eastern coyotes like they have in NH, and Maine are very closely related to wolves.

I'm doing my part when I can.......I waged an all out war on coyotes here around my place about 4 years ago. I got tired of not seeing any rabbits, and when I read some articles about how big a part of a coyote's diet is newborn fawns.....that made me even more furious.

[Friend]

Possibly MO has a better coyote management program where most of the yotes harvested are above 1 1/2 years old.

[YORNOC]

Coyotes are like bears, when somebody says they killed a 300 pounder it can often be closer to 200. Just like fishing, etc. Exaggeration often creeps in to make a good story better. I'm no biologist and I only know New England coyotes, and anything that hits 50 pounds would be a MONSTER around here.
A trapper friend in Maine shot(actually his wife shot) a 55 pound coyote. I saw it weighed with my own eyes and the thing was enormous, especially in its winter fur. In his whole life the next biggest he or his wife had ever taken was 42 and most were 20 to 35 pounds.
If that coyote is legitimate, looks like maybe that gigantism condition like the wrestler Andre The Giant had? Or the 400# Hinkley whitetail from Maine....etc. etc,

[swampmaster]

thats funny semo

[kennym]

I think the weight is legit,but I'm having trouble with the species determination.

[Dave Bowers]

Originally posted by wildgame:
i would believe maybe a coy dog!the bigeast i ever seen was a 52pounder that had yote-chow mixed!

Thats what i was thinking..coy dog.

[kennym]

I just clicked on the pic and went to pic #2, no yote as far as I'm concerned. Think how long his legs are weighing 104, a coyote weighin in at 104 would be built more like me.......  :D

[The Vanilla Gorilla]

Chupacabra.

End of story.

[Bjorn]

That's as authentic as the 300 pound mountain lion killed last year! Or the 1100 pound wild boar for that matter.

[kennym]

Authentic or not, that is what the MDC says, I haven't seen the critter.

[bgremill]

I'm calling BS!

[Thumper Dunker]

Thats no coyote thats a dog .And its not that old teeth are nice and white and they look too short to be a coyote or a wolf.Has a short muzle also, rounded ears . Feral dogie.