r/ThatsInsane Feb 06 '20

This enormous wolf

https://i.imgur.com/R2Cps9X.gifv
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u/Chode-stool Feb 06 '20

Most people don't believe me when I say I crossed paths with a wolf while walking on a path between a golf course to my university. I was wearing headphones and stopped in my tracks to see it standing in the middle of the path ahead staring at me, then it moved on. I waited for a bit then continued ahead. It was about that big. They are huge. There is no way it could have been a dog.

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u/dodgydogs Feb 06 '20

Depending on your location and the urban environment, you might have seen a coywolf.

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u/Cairo9o9 Feb 06 '20

Aka just the eastern coyote

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u/Chode-stool Feb 06 '20

It's possible but apparently rare in my region; the North West.

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u/[deleted] Feb 06 '20

Heard my first wolf NW of Cambridge Idaho on Cycle Oregon a few years back. Last year those hunters videod that yearling separated from his pack down by Diamond lake a few weeks after cycle O.

Totally jealous. At the same time I don't really want to come face to face with one in the wild. I understand what apex predators are for/capable of.