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SpeciesCarnivoraCanidae
Carnivores

🐺Coyote

Canis latrans Say, 1823

Prærieulven (Canis latrans) (coyote) er et dyr i hundefamilien. Den når en længde på 70-97 cm med en hale på 30-38 cm og vejer 9-16 kg. Dyret lever i det meste af Nordamerika, fra Alaska til Panama. Hunnen er drægtig i 63 dage. I den tid opholder hun sig i en hule. Den gennemsnitlige kuldstørrelse er 6 unger. Prærieulven kan løbe op til 65 km/t.

Text: Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

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475
Photos
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Measurements
14
vs you
≈ 1/6th of your weight
Also called
American jackal, brush wolf, prairie wolf
Conservation status
LCLeast concern

IUCN Red List assessment, 2018.

Population trendIncreasing
Key measurements
Body mass
11 kg
Body length
0.91 m
Shoulder height
0.52 m
Top speed
not recorded
Bite force
not recorded
Maximum lifespan
22 years
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Facts and figures

Everything we know about the Coyote

Typical adult figures. Where a value is an estimate rather than a measurement, it says so.

Body mass
11 kg
COMBINE
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Source: COMBINE · v1 (Soria et al. 2021) · CC BY 4.0

Figures vary

  • 13 kgAnAgeAnAge build 15, 2023-07-03 (HAGR)data quality: acceptable
Body length
0.91 m
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Source: COMBINE · v1 (Soria et al. 2021) · CC BY 4.0

Shoulder height
0.52 m0.46–0.58 m · typical rangeat the shoulder
Details ↓

"Height at the shoulder on average ranges from 18-23 inches and from nose to tip of tail they may be 4 feet or more." 18-23 in = 0.457-0.584 m, value is the midpoint. Agency figures vary: NPS Grand Canyon gives "Shoulder height from 16-20 in (40-50 cm)". Bekoff 1977 (Mammalian Species 79) gives no shoulder height.

Source: US National Park Service, Jewel Cave National Monument: Coyote (Canis latrans), https://www.nps.gov/jeca/learn/nature/coyote-canis-latrans.htm · see citation

Brain mass
92 g
COMBINE
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Source: COMBINE · v1 (Soria et al. 2021) · CC BY 4.0

Maximum lifespan
22 years
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Source: COMBINE · v1 (Soria et al. 2021) · CC BY 4.0

Figures vary

  • 22 yearsAnAgeAnAge build 15, 2023-07-03 (HAGR)data quality: acceptable
Generation length
7.03 years
COMBINE
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Source: COMBINE · v1 (Soria et al. 2021) · CC BY 4.0

Age at maturity
1.0 years
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Source: COMBINE · v1 (Soria et al. 2021) · CC BY 4.0

Gestation
62 days
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Source: COMBINE · v1 (Soria et al. 2021) · CC BY 4.0

Figures vary

  • 63 daysAnAgeAnAge build 15, 2023-07-03 (HAGR)data quality: acceptable
Litter size
about 6
COMBINE
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Source: COMBINE · v1 (Soria et al. 2021) · CC BY 4.0

Figures vary

  • 6AnAgeAnAge build 15, 2023-07-03 (HAGR)data quality: acceptable
Trophic level
Carnivore
COMBINE
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Source: COMBINE · v1 (Soria et al. 2021) · CC BY 4.0

Activity cycle
Crepuscular / mixed
COMBINE
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Source: COMBINE · v1 (Soria et al. 2021) · CC BY 4.0

Home range
19 km²
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Source: COMBINE · v1 (Soria et al. 2021) · CC BY 4.0

Population density
0.04 per km²
COMBINE
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Source: COMBINE · v1 (Soria et al. 2021) · CC BY 4.0

Volume l
11 Laverage
Details ↓

Body mass at ~1.0 kg/L, the density of vertebrate tissue.

average = a mean across sexes or species in a group.

Not recorded for Coyote yet: top speed, bite force.

Where it sits

Family tree

  1. kingdomAnimalia
  2. ›phylumChordata
  3. ›classMammalia
  4. ›orderCarnivora
  5. ›familyCanidae
  6. ›genusCanis
  7. ›speciesCanis latrans
Full lineage
  1. classMammals · Mammalia
  2. orderCarnivorans · Carnivora
  3. suborderCaniformia
  4. familyCanidae
All 13 branches ↓
  1. kingdomMetazoa
  2. phylumChordata
  3. subphylumCraniata
  4. subphylumVertebrata
  5. superclassGnathostomata
  6. superclassSarcopterygii
  7. superclassTetrapoda
  8. classMammals · Mammalia
  9. subclassTheria
  10. superorderLaurasiatheria
  11. orderCarnivorans · Carnivora
  12. suborderCaniformia
  13. familyCanidae
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Closest relative on this site
🐕 Dog — last shared an ancestor ≈ 1.5 million years ago.
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What it eats
warm-blooded animals60%
carrion30%
fish10%
In other languages
Coyote (es), coyote (it), coyote (fr), Kojote (de), kojootti (fi), kojot (hu) … and 28 more languages

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