Yes. It’s hairless.
And it’s stuffed.
But what are those things on its butt?
I don’t think they are features that are normally on coyotes, hairless or otherwise.
Of course, the cryptozoologists think these animals represent a new species.
I’m not so convinced.
BTW, the taxidermist gave this specimen blue eyes.
Hm, really bad anal glands? =P
That’s what I thought, but that got shut down!
I wonder if any taxidermists have seen this as some form of normal post-mortem degradation. Like, was this stored in a tight box or turned funny so that fluid and pressure formed these strange structures? I wonder what the underlying morophology was.
Seems rather odd that they’d be pretty uniform and squished.
Those are things from the animal spending a great deal of time sitting and scratching at it’s ears with a hind leg. It’s basically a fluid filled sac. I can’t remember what they are called but we used to get Greyhounds in rescue that had small ones from being being heavily flea infested; get rid of the fleas and the sac will go away by itself because the dog stops scratching.
Hygroma! Those are some monster huge ones.
Here’s the post from whence they came:http://texasbluedogs.blogspot.com/2010/03/what-you-have-all-been-waiting-for.html
That’s a freaking coyote/dog mix with sarcoptic mange. Our local coyotes have a lot of dog in them, because a local breeder of ‘wolf-hybrids’ (none of his animals had much wolf content that I could see) turned all his breeding stock loose. It would not surprise me at all to a coyote with blue eyes due to breeding with a husky mix.
I commented but they’re not going to like what I said, we’ll see if it gets approved.
Our coyotes are very low dog content.
Some might have a bit of dog in them.
But coyotes have such a narrow mating season here and the bitches are so particular that a dog can’t mate with them.
When you get in warmer climates, the coyotes have a longer mating season.
BTW, they approve everything I write.
We used to have mostly red phase coyotes but a few years ago a bunch of bigger darker ones moved in and the red ones moved out. There was a ‘war’ with ten or twelve animals right across the front of my property. There are some very large males, I see tracks that are almost as big as those of my large male dogs and when we first moved here six years ago I never saw tracks that big.