Animal 411
PHOTO: Rare ‘Coywolf’ Spotted in New Canaan
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A rare eastern coyote—offspring of an eastern wolf and western coyote—was spotted (and photographed) in New Canaan up near the Scotts Corner line on Sunday, officials say. The Proprietors Crossing sighting comes on the heels of an active February, in which eight coyotes were spotted in New Canaan, and also follows a “red wolf” sighting in town in December. “This animal is just spectacular,” Officer Maryann Kleinschmitt of the New Canaan Police Department’s Animal Control Unit said of the coywolf, seen at right. The call reporting the sighting came in at about 2:30 p.m. on March 2, police say. Kleinschmitt says she’s hearing that there could be a pair of the animals in northern New Canaan.