Originally Posted by
Checkmite
That's a good question. I would expect wolves to be more likely to attempt to chase down a coyote and eat it rather than try to mate with it.
That's right. Wolves and coyotes are generally rivals. Coyotes are persecuted when they live within wolf territories.
The coy-wolves of the northeastern USA are descendants of matings that occurred long ago when pioneers killed off most of the wolves. This left an opportunity for coyotes to move in from the west and hybrids occurred in a situation of a very low and scattered wolf population. There haven't been any pure wolves in the NE USA in a long time. Research shows that these "big coyotes" are a mixture of wolf, coyote and dog.