Coywolf: A "Canine Soup" - Brad White

In the American west, coyotes have had the run of the place for decades, after wolves were essentially eradicated from the landscape. But as coyotes loped eastward they finally encountered wolves. And coyotes, being the great survivors that they are, they mated with them. This has caused a new "entity" that isn't completely coyote, isn't a human-shy wolf, and has some domestic dog DNA as well. Brad White, chair of biology at Trent University, explains that the "canine soup" is a byproduct of human caused selection, but wouldn't proclaim the "coywolf" a separate species.