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 …
Here’s some newly documented invertebrate tracks to share with you all in our Tracker Mentoring community! This odd trail belongs to a beetle larva. It is a “cutworm,” a larva of the Tenebrionidae, as far as we can tell. These are seen from time to time in different regions, and this particular one is from …
Here are some newly documented invertebrate tracks to share with you all in our Tracker Mentoring community. A good friend and fellow tracker in South Africa, Rudi Hulshof, contacted us recently with a series of fascinating pictures which he took in the Thornybush near Hoedspruit. A dash-dash-dash type of line, running through dry sand. We …
Welcome to tracker mentoring, a place to practice your tracking with a community of peers, and world-class mentors. Thank you for subscribing to our newsletter, and especially for reading about this… our inaugural offering! “This is a time to create and share content that engages, entertains, educates and inspires the world.” A quote we love, …
Introducing Tracker Mentoring! (And, introducing the tracks of the Crested Barbet!) Read More »