A Field Guide to Mammal Tracking in North AmericaWith Halfpenny's Field Guide to Mammal Tracking anyone can be a nature detective, able to reconstruct the behavior of mammals from mice to moose. Based on field research, the book brings the amateur naturalist the latest information on animal gaits and the interpretation of scat. |
Contents
Introduction | 1 |
Using This Guide | 7 |
The Basics | 9 |
Tracking Techniques | 24 |
Dog Family | 35 |
Cat Family | 41 |
Rabbit Order | 46 |
Rodent Order | 50 |
Raccoon Family | 91 |
Opossum Family | 95 |
Shrew Family | 96 |
EvenToed Ungulates | 97 |
Reading Trails | 108 |
Scatology | 135 |
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Common terms and phrases
animal appear areas bear beaver bobcat bounding brown characteristic claws closely clues collection color common cover coyote deer deposited diet distance drag drawings edges field five fore four front feet front foot front print gait gallop gopher grizzly ground hair hard hare hind feet hind foot identify inches indicates jump kangaroo larger leave length lion Location look lynx mammals marks material measurement Members mice moose Mountain moving North notes observed occasionally otter pattern pellets plantar position possible present produce rabbit raccoon range reference relatively robust rodents Scale scat separate shape short side single skunks smaller snow soft species squirrel story stride surface tail tend tion toes tracks trail trees trot types urine usually walk weasel white-tailed deer Width winter
Popular passages
Page 150 - Nagy, JG, and JG Gilbert. 1968. Fecal pH values of mule deer and grazing domestic sheep. J. Wildl. Mgmt., 32:961-962.
Page 150 - Johnson, MK, RC Belden, and DR Aldred. 1984. Differentiating mountain lion and bobcat scats.
Page 150 - Fecal pH and defecation rates of eight ruminants fed known diets. J. Wildl.