'Coywolf' Startles Jogger in Cape Cod

The unexpected sight of a coyote startled a Cape Cod jogger recently. James Harshaw Jr told Storyful that he initially thought the animal to be a neighbor's dog running into the woods. "My second thought was that it was a wolf but there aren't wolves on Cape Cod," he said. Harshaw said that he later learnt that what he filmed running past a house and into the woods on Easter Sunday was in fact an Eastern coyote. These animals, with a mix of wolf, dog, and coyote genes, are sometimes referred to as a https://provincetownindependent.org/news/2021/08/18/cape-coyotes-are-emboldened-by-human-negligence/ "coywolves" . (Footage by The Harshaw Group/Storyful via Getty Images UGC)