What’s a “coywolf?” What most people call a “coywolf” is the eastern coyote. I first encountered the term “coywolf” in the literature in the paper “Genetic Characterization of Eastern Coyotes in Eastern Massachusetts” by Way et al (2010), and I’ve heard many people use this term to refer to the hybrid coyotes (and sometimes hybrid wolves) that they see in eastern North America. In theory, an “eastern coyote” is any coyote in eastern North America — coyote (Canis latrans) is native to the western