Marshland mashup: Red wolf-coyote hybrids adapt to coastal Louisiana

Marshland mashup: Red wolf-coyote hybrids adapt to coastal Louisiana

Researchers are working to better understand how coyotes with red wolf DNA are adapting to coastal Louisiana. (Photo courtesy of the Texas-Louisiana Canid Project)A new kind of creature is making its home where the prairies of Southwest Louisiana turn into brackish coastal marshes.  It’s a coyote, kind of, with bigger ears and longer legs that have adapted to live among the tall wetland grasses in Cameron Parish. Believed to be unique to this co…