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New species combining wolf, coyote, and dog emerges in eastern North America

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Re: New species combining wolf, coyote, and dog emerges in eastern North America

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If it was against the rules, HN wouldn't include a link labelled "web" under the main article link for people to do exactly this. ;)

Ahaha, I can't believe I didn't notice that! Thanks for pointing that out.

I think it's a reasonably recent addition (last few months). You can also click the domain suffix after an article title to see all pages submitted from that source (e.g., all articles from The Atlantic, etc).

Re: New species combining wolf, coyote, and dog emerges in eastern North America

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Never heard of these being called "coywolf", but it's been known for a while that eastern coyotes are partly mixed with wolves. Good for them, too. Western coyotes are kind of wimpy. Now if we could breed the coyote with various bears, North America might start to rival Africa for impressive and fearsome predators.

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In a parallel development, a hybrid pigeon, hawk, and roadrunner—the "pigeawkrunner"—has emerged in the same environments as the coywolf. Reports that the coywolf's attempts to catch the pigeawkrunner frequently backfire, resulting in deadly if amusing rock-falls, are as yet unsubstantiated.

I saw that story, I think it was on the same site that had the piece on the Midwest entrepreneur who recently closed a successful round A for his oversized magnet company.

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In a parallel development, a hybrid pigeon, hawk, and roadrunner—the "pigeawkrunner"—has emerged in the same environments as the coywolf. Reports that the coywolf's attempts to catch the pigeawkrunner frequently backfire, resulting in deadly if amusing rock-falls, are as yet unsubstantiated.

I saw that story, I think it was on the same site that had the piece on the Midwest entrepreneur who recently closed a successful round A for his oversized magnet company.

Sounds like a great time to make a move on the smart anvil market

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In a parallel development, a hybrid pigeon, hawk, and roadrunner—the "pigeawkrunner"—has emerged in the same environments as the coywolf. Reports that the coywolf's attempts to catch the pigeawkrunner frequently backfire, resulting in deadly if amusing rock-falls, are as yet unsubstantiated.

I saw that story, I think it was on the same site that had the piece on the Midwest entrepreneur who recently closed a successful round A for his oversized magnet company.

That's the company that the WSJ described as "profits that seemed to hang in the air, before falling off a cliff"?

Associated Coyote Magnetic Enterprises - was that the name? What was their stock symbol?

Re: New species combining wolf, coyote, and dog emerges in eastern North America

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Never heard of these being called "coywolf", but it's been known for a while that eastern coyotes are partly mixed with wolves. Good for them, too. Western coyotes are kind of wimpy. Now if we could breed the coyote with various bears, North America might start to rival Africa for impressive and fearsome predators.

"Western coyotes are kind of wimpy."

Not around here. In Portland, Oregon, in the west hills In the last few weeks we've seen coyotes 2 to 3 times a week during daylight, curiously almost always around 3 PM. Until recently it was rare to see coyotes at all. They are fond of rifling through the contents of garbage cans. We now use extra layers of "security" to prevent coyotes getting into the trash.

They are bold, fearless and evidently numerous. A couple of days ago a coyote was wandering up our driveway when my wife was nearby pulling weeds. Of course, she got out of the way. Based on its direction I was concerned it might go into the garage, dislodging it from there could be a big problem.

Fortunately that day the coyote headed elsewhere. However people have become alarmed to the extent a neighborhood meeting is scheduled next week to consider options. There's serious concern about safety of small kids in the area, and really I can understand that source of worry.

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