Coyote (Canis latrans) with open mouth on sand dune at night under starry sky, Galveston, Texas. This population has genes of red wolf (Canis rufus).

---

Many coyotes (Canis latrans) in the southern US, including the Galveston population, are natural hybrids of the nearly-extinct red wolf (Canis rufus) and harbor up to 69% of its “ghost” DNA in their genomes. My idea was to picture animals in their environment with night sky and make something “ghostly” combining flashes with long exposure.

---

Size: 4240px × 6223px
Location: Galveston, Texas, USA
Photo credit: © Ivan Kuzmin / Alamy / Afripics
License: Licensed
Model Released: No

Keywords: animal, animals, canis, carnivore, carnivores, coast, coastal, coyote, coyotes, coywolf, coywolves, dark, dune, exposure, galveston, ghost, gulf, hybrid, landscape, latrans, long, mexico, mouth, night, open, portrait, red, rufus, sand, seashore, shore, sky, starry, stars, texas, wetland, wetlands, wildlife, wolf, wolves