Danbooru

Coyote ears should imply animal ears

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SSJG said:

Tags are based mostly on visual details. There is no need to have tag for every animal species' ears when a lot of them are indistinguishable form each other. Tagging coyoye ears as dog_ears is not mistagging, it's a compromise that needs to be made in order to not have ultra-specific tags that only apply to a couple of characters. These compromises are common to all types of tags, not just animal-related.
dog_ears effectively works as canine_ears (and yes, wolf_ears are also very similar to most dog_ears and may or not be aliased in the future, but it's probably protected by its age and being associated with a lot of classic characters).

Then canine ears would be better and more accurate. Calling a wolf a dog is like calling a tiger a house cat.

It should be fine aliasing the coyote ears tag to wolf ears. The coyotes closest relative are the red wolves and eastern wolves, so lumping them together with wolves who they've most visually similar to shouldn't be an issue. Furthermore intermingling between coyotes and other wolves (eastern, red, and grey) is common enough, with Wikipedia mentioning that in Ontario they had to protect the Eastern Wolf populations there to help restore the populations genetic composition as overhunting lead to increased hybridization with their Eastern Wolf population and coyotes, thus ending up with a large amount of Coyote DNA (see Wikipedia: Coywolf).

All but like four of the posts under coyote ears are under two characters. The issue with these tags is that they're not coyote ears, they're the ears of a vtuber and a kimono friends character, no matter how they're drawn, and someone searching for those can just search for the character itself. They provide zero search utility, they're just blindly slapped on every single post of those characters. We nuked serval ears, i see no issue with nuking these too.
Aliasing to wolf ears makes sense too, but keep in mind tag spammers will just dump all pictures of those two characters into the tag, no matter whether they actually look like wolf ears.

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