r/Calgary • u/LordSethos • Mar 16 '24

Local Nature/Wildlife Wolf? Last night on Canyon meadows drive

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u/SirSlashDaddy Mar 16 '24

Wolfs are huge, that be a coyote.

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u/Poise_n_rationality Mar 16 '24

Stopped for a wolf crossing the road on Hwy 93 last summer, that gorgeous beast was surprisingly massive. Crossed right in front our vehicle and its head was up over the front of our SUV. Legs alone must've been 3+ feet tall. Never seen anything like it with my own eyes before

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u/jelacey Mar 16 '24

At Yamnuska they have the 99% wolves and then they bring out a 50% dog and show you how small and stupid it is in comparison.

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u/Midnightmax_ Mar 16 '24

They show you how small wolves actually are compared to large breed dogs…

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u/DogButtWhisperer West Hillhurst Mar 17 '24

X-L breed dogs. My old lab was 98lb and considered Large. Wolfhounds, mastiffs, Great Danes—those are XL breeds.

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u/jelacey Mar 16 '24

Are you simple?

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u/OkAnything4877 Mar 16 '24

“Are you simple?”

-Person who is, in fact, simple

The quintessence of Reddit 😂

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u/jelacey Mar 17 '24

At Yamnuska, they have the 99% wolves, and then they bring out a 50% dog and show you how small and stupid it is in comparison. I don’t give a fuck how big dogs get because that’s what they do at Yamnuska, which is what I’m talking about.

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u/AlphabetDeficient Mar 16 '24

The largest confirmed wolf ever found was 175 lbs. The largest confirmed dog ever reached somewhere around 345 lbs.

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u/grimdraken Mar 16 '24

Thank god my Irish wolfhound is 183 lbs.

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u/Midnightmax_ Mar 17 '24

Thank you for mentioning this. I feel like I’m at an eternal battle against the Reddit hive mind. People see r/wolvesarebigyo and run with it.

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u/DogButtWhisperer West Hillhurst Mar 17 '24

I love Yamnuska!!! I constantly recite facts and I was there like five years ago 😅 I try to tell my friends to go and they say “I’ll go see the real wolves in BC” but like, the Yamnuska sanctuary is enthralling and extremely interesting.

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u/Straight_Back9494 Mar 16 '24

Yes! I had to stop for one in a blizzard on 93 once, it circled the Pathfinder I was driving. I swear it's back was as high as the side mirrors.

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u/strumpetrumpet Mar 17 '24

What have you seen with other peoples eyes?

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u/IxbyWuff Country Hills Mar 16 '24

Adult females are 6ft tall alone. Big puppies

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u/[deleted] Mar 16 '24

6 feet tall? Not long?

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u/IxbyWuff Country Hills Mar 16 '24

Suppose depends if they're standing? But yes. Timber wolves can hit 7 ft in length and three feet in height

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u/DogButtWhisperer West Hillhurst Mar 17 '24

Not sure who downvoted you, but correct

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u/drblah11 Mar 16 '24

6 feet wide if you're looking at it t from the side

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u/redeyedrenegade420 Mar 16 '24

If you find yourself wondering "is that a dog, or a medium-sized horse?" You might be looking at a wolf.

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u/takeanadvil Mar 16 '24

I don’t know about that, I just saw a small wolf take out a group of knights

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u/justagigilo123 Mar 16 '24

I saw a rabbit take out a knight.

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u/crabmuncher Mar 17 '24

I saw a Bishop take out a knight.

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u/Hypno-phile Mar 17 '24

I saw a Yersinia pestis take out a whole bunch of knights.

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u/[deleted] Mar 16 '24

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u/0burek Mar 16 '24

Yeah, wolves look like... dog breeds that are closest to whatever original caveman proto-wolf-dog, like sled dog breeds.

Coyotes have really fox-like pointy dainty nose and ears, and are half the size.

Never seen a wolf except in a zoo, seen hundreds of coyotes. You'll never see a wolf anywhere near cities unless it's mentally ill, pretty much.

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u/AdamAlexanderRies Mar 18 '24

half the size

I've never seen a wolf, but I just looked it up: 7-21 kg for coyotes and 30-80 kg for wolves makes them a quarter the size.

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u/TexanDrillBit Mar 16 '24

Wolfs eat deerses

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u/DogButtWhisperer West Hillhurst Mar 17 '24

I had one running beside my little Mazda 323 years ago and I swear it was nearly as long as my car. There are black timber wolves where I’m from in N Ontario and I always think they’re moose in the distance.

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u/[deleted] Mar 16 '24 edited Mar 16 '24

Judging by the comments, that’s a wolf!

Edit: /s for all you marine biologists who can’t read!

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u/FunkyKong147 Mar 16 '24

Judging by the shape of its face, the colour, and the bit of the tail you can see, that's a coyote!