Toronto’s mystery predator really is a coy-wolf – but not as we know it

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Part urban legend, part DNA-tested reality, the coyote-wolf hybrid has adapted to dense human-built environments

An eastern coyote in Toronto’s Colonel Samuel Smith park.
An eastern coyote in Toronto’s Colonel Samuel Smith park.Photograph: Puffin’s Pictures/Alamy

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Leyland Ceccoin TorontoFri 8 Apr 2022 05.10 EDT

It was a spring morning when Elise Rustad saw the creature loping down a Toronto sidewalk. At a distance, it looked like a dog, but no owner was nearby. As it drew closer, she was struck by its size and its thick black, white and grey coat.

“It was big. I’ve seen a wolf before,” she said. “And that really looked like a wolf.”

After watching the video she hadrecorded, her husband suspected it could be something else.

He and others in Canada’s largest city have grown convinced thata large, elusive predator has taken up residencein Toronto’s wild ravine…

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