Coyote Skull

[Slinginslugs]

Looks like the victim of a .22 to the face

 

[chorizo]

If it is small like you say, could also be a badger

 

[deerstalkert]

chupacabra!


my vote is for a pig of some sorts.

 

[kyron4]

I concur with others, NOT a coyote skull. I have a pile of them and they all look like the one in chorizo's picture. Cool find none the less.

 

[William Sublette]

Not a pig

Not a badger

Not a bear


If you do a Google image search, the closest looking skull there is listed as a domestic dog.

I could see some kind of short wide face breed like a Rottweiler.

 

[chorizo]

I just looked up a badger and beat skull.. NOT a badger,NOT a bear.

Not a canine skull.. They all have the distinctive ridge. Back to pig

 

[William Sublette]

Looks like the victim of a .22 to the face

Could be a troublesome pit bull

 

[chorizo]

Pig. Check out this website

http://www.skullsite.co.uk/Pig/wbhybrid.htm

 

[Horse]

Somebody's Sunday BBQ ?

 

[1971fx]

While I’m no longer the blood thirsty hunter I once was, I’ll kill a coyote in a NY second given the chance.

Plenty of coyotes in NY

 

[Ames]

Bigfoot!

 

[Mrg5]

The skull is definitely some species of pig. The flaring canines and the flat occipital region from the dorsal view shown are a dead giveaway. Also the way the nasal bones stick out and come to a point is another indication. From the one top view picture provided and no scale on the skull to indicate size it’s hard to say more. But it’s absolutely not a coyote or a bear. It’s a pig of some sort.
Have you got any side or rear photos of it?

The photo below is of a wild pig. You can see the similarities.

 

[Dusty_Traveler]

That's a pigs dome.

 

[user 48702]

Alien! Could be from one of them "Lizzid People"
I watch this guy's show often, He tells great stories, and most of the time at the end he debunks them as conspiracy theories. I love the Heckle Fish with his Jersey accent.

 

[kaotikross]

I'll tell a true story.
A few years back around Thanksgiving our beloved Chihuahua dog Cricket died. 14, cancer. The ground was froze rock solid and burial was going to be impossible. We weren't about to throw a family member in the trash either. So anyway, on a property adjoining ours was a dead tree with a hollow where an old limb had broke off about 8 foot off the ground, just the right size for a nest of small critters or one small dog. The idea light bulb went off and "sky burial" it was.
Earlier this year I noticed the owner had clear cut some of those midsized dead trees, likely for firewood, including Cricket's resting place.
I bet that puzzled the crap out of him. No species of dog, fox or anything else it could be climbs trees. I thought about saying something as we get along pretty good but I'm also afraid he'd think we're nuts for doing it in the first place.

 

[Buckskinn]

Definitely a hog for many reasons and you can see where the upper tusks were sharpened by the lower. Probably dumped by someone after butchering or hog roast if they are not invasive around you. But if that is a 22 hole, it certainly didn't kill it, just made it mad...

If domestic, interesting that the tusks weren't cut, generally the first thing you do when they drop out of mamma or they get dangerous.

 

[CuNosecap]

My first thought was javelina, in that I've spent a lot of time in the desert. Central Oregon? desert? Do you have javelina?

 

[Bobby44]

I swear some of the ones around our house look like they’re half wolf they are so huge…

I think some of those may be bred to domestic dog as well. Seen a couple over the years that look like they may go 80 pounds or so based on what 80 to 100 pound dogs look like. Still lots of the skinny critters too, but larger are probably better survivors.

 

[nwtradegun]

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[Notchy Bob]

Ah man, now that I look I think you’re right. Well that kinda sucks…someone must’ve put it there…Dang.

Sort of reminds me of Lord of the Flies...

Don't feel bad about the identification. It's a cool skull, regardless of the species, and the conversation that followed your post has been great. Very informative.

I would go with some sort of swine for that skull. It's worth noting, though, that both wild and domestic animals are sometimes born with "birth defects," just as with some people. I guess this is just Mother Nature experimenting with evolution. However, it can complicate identification of their remains. There is a mythical creature in some Siouan people's legends called a shunka warak'in, which is said to resemble an enormous hyena. A wild critter preying on sheep in Montana a few years ago (2018) was eventually killed, and a lot of people wanted to believe it was one of those mythical beasts. However, DNA testing confirmed it was a wolf, with some unusual or variant physical features. There is a lot about the Montana shunka warakin on the web, easily found with a Google search.

I live in north central Florida. There were rumored to be a few coyotes in this area when I was a kid, in the late fifties and sixties. Now, there is no question. I live in the country, and I sometimes step out into the yard at night, just to get a look at the moon and stars, and I hear them yipping and howling in the distance. I see one now and then as road kill, but not very often. There is a 7,000+ acre state preserve near my place which does not allow hunting, but there are miles of hiking trails in it. I go out there every chance I get, and I've seen coyotes there several times, in broad daylight. My wife and I were out there a couple of years ago and a pair of them ran across the path just ahead of us. They were bigger than I thought they would be, and the coats had a reddish color. The native red wolves are long gone from Florida, but we wonder if there might be some introgression of red wolf genes in the local coyote population.

Best regards,

Notchy Bob