With an estimated population of 186,239 in 2016, Knoxville is the third largest city in the state of Tennessee. It is home to the University of Tennessee and Neyland Stadium which has an official seating capacity of 102,455 or roughly 55 percent of the city's residents.
The 104 square miles of the city are also home to a growing population of coy-wolf-dog hybrids. Every so often you get a glimpse of one in a backyard or trotting along a railroad track. But getting a photo of these wily mid-sized predators is difficult at best. All of these animals were photographed within four miles of Neyland Stadium.
Additionally, after the manuscript for Ephemeral was finished and turned into UT Press, Karyn Adams called to let me know they had found a roadkill coy-wolf-dog on Neyland Drive within two blocks of the stadium.
So is the newly evolving species a Vol football fan?
Coy-wolf-dog in South Knoxville, 2010. Photo by Than Boves
Coy-wolf-dog? off Moody Avenue in South Knoxville, 2013. Photo by Stephen Lyn Bales
Two photos of a coy-wolf-dog in Lindbergh Forest less than a mile from downtown Knoxville, 2013. Photos by Bruce Cole
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