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Bird tracks in snow. An animal track is an imprint left behind in soil, snow, or mud, or on some other ground surface, by an animal walking across it. Animal tracks are used by hunters in tracking their prey and by naturalists to identify animals living in a given area. [1]
Spoor may include tracks, scents, or broken foliage. Spoor is useful for discovering or surveying what types of animals live in an area, or in animal tracking. The word originated c. 1823, from Cape Dutch spoor, from Middle Dutch spor, which is cognate with Old English spor "footprint, track, trace" and modern English language spurn (as in ...
Bear tracks in Superior National Forest Deer tracks. Tracking in hunting and ecology is the science and art of observing animal tracks and other signs, with the goal of gaining understanding of the landscape and the animal being tracked (the "quarry"). A further goal of tracking is the deeper understanding of the systems and patterns that make ...
Tracks of the greater yellowlegs. Bird tracking provides a way to assess the habitat range and behavior of birds without ever seeing the bird. Bird tracking falls under the category of tracking and is related to animal tracking. A guide to bird tracking has been published. [1]
Illustration of Porcupine tracks. Tracking is an element of scouting that encompasses observation, stalking and the following of a trail. Unlike the form of tracking employed in hunting, tracking within the Scouting movement tends to focus on the tracking of people as well as animals.
Figure 1 showing typical motifs found at Panaramitee sites a. macropod tracks b. bird tracks c. circles d. radiating lines e. lizards f. crescents g. dots. The style of petroglyph in discussion was originally identified at a number of sites located on Panaramitee sheep station as seen in figure 2. [4]
Pugmark is the term used to refer to the footprint of most animals (especially megafauna). "Pug" means foot in Hindi [1] (Sanskrit पद् "pad"; Greek πούς "poús"). Every individual animal species has a distinct pugmark and as such this is used for identification. An image of a thylacine pugmark