Canadian Eastern wolf or Red wolf??? Sorry, youre not even close. If youre quoting a source, its not an accurate one for you. The Red Wolf hails from Arkansas. Its widely known that its demise has been the result of its willingness to interbreed with the native coyote, canis latrans. The largest number of known red wolves these days is on an island sanctuary in the Carolinas, the exact location escapes me.

Theyve been looking at suture joints in the skull, offset molars, DNA, humerus bone size, etc, and still dont have anything conclusive. They simply call our eastern coyotes the newest hybrid, a "super coyote". Hes bigger by way of heavier bone structure and mass. Western coyotes in the south might be 30 lbers, but northwestern coyotes are big. Bergmans rule takes care of that. You can look that one up in your reference books!

I spoke more than once to the folks from the eastern cougar group...they want wild free ranging lions here so bad, it was obvious I was speaking to the same people who sit out in Nevada watching and waiting for flying saucers.

Im with Phade, like Ive said so many times, yes, maybe an occasional lion could migrate through, but our human population densities dont suggest supporting too many or having them move into areas they havent been in for so many years. Couple that with escapees, which, by the way, are NOT usually reported for pretty obvious reasons (theyre illegal to begin with...) and you have very few lions to sight. Ill be willing to bet that jhoffman did see his lion, and it was, as we have been saying, the EXCEPTION.