On page 617 of Mammal Tracks & Signs by Mark Elbroch (2nd ed) there is an excellent description of this behaviour. It reads: Both eastern gray (or “grey”) and fox squirrels also create large visual and olfactory scent posts at the base of trees (often the lee side) and under large branches (Koprowski 1993). Previously, …
Squirrel “stripe” marking on trees, North America (and Europe) Read More »
This is a classic Cape Buffalo dung pile. They look like large pellets, folded into each other and sometimes just a large “plop.” They resemble the dung of domestic cows (or domestic cow dung resembles their dung). Similar species: On occasion, we have seen very atypical waterbuck and giraffe scats that resemble this, but the …
This photo was taken near Siren, Wisconsin, at our annual Deer Trailing Workshop and CyberTracker Trailing Evaluation with North Winds Wilderness School and the Minnesota Tracking Project. Jonathan Poppele (Tracker 2) and Blake Samuele Southard (Tracker 2) were present, and refrained from answering, but contributed with their great senses of humour. Annie Du-Pre Reynolds (Tracker …
White-tailed deer tracks in leaf litter, Wisconsin, USA Read More »
These photos were taken at our training venue, Ngala Training Camp, in the Balule Region of the Greater Kruger, South Africa. The first photo is fresh, and the second one, older. Frikkie Kotze answered this question correctly in our #trackertuesdays #dailytrackingchallenge. It’s scrub hare urine signs! Frikkie had this as a question on a #CyberTracker …
Mammal tracks always seem to attract more interest than others, perhaps because that’s what we typically think about tracking, when we think about tracking… In our #trackertuesdays #weeklytrackingchallenge we had three answers from three different countries for this one: Ross Marcel Gariepy (SA) – Zebra, odd toed ungulate or hoofed animal. Mike Watling (USA) – …
Zebra (zeh-brah, not zee-brah) tracks, South Africa Read More »
The veld here in South Africa is still recovering from many years of drought. As a result, the animals are becoming more abundant. More and more, we are seeing these dry, grassy nests, and they aren’t always in rocks. Sometimes, they are in hollows in dead (or still living) trees. We identify them by the …