r/AnimalTracking

South Central Kentucky, found in my driveway. There was blood, this me and some poop. I scooped it up with the dogs poop shovel, the pile was approximately 4X4.

Found this i my back yard. Live in north eastern BC . The total size is about 4 inches, the larger piece is about 3 x 2 in.

Help identifying tracks in barn that just started appearing recently. Ruled out neighbors cats and the exposed claws are throwing me for a loop. Paw pads looked feline to me but wanted second opinion.

I spent a few months last winter out at a bush cabin in the northern Yukon. It’s about 40 miles from the nearest road, which is about 80 miles from the nearest town. We didn’t see any other humans during our time there, so all tracks that didn’t belong to us were wildlife. I had a very fun time documenting our many neighbours, so hopefully this is interesting to someone other than me!

Not sure how to add captions to each picture, so in order of appearance:

1-3: Moose. Longer gait than a caribou, and the spots where they bed down are unmistakable, as well as their distinctive scat. In the bedding down pictures you can see where their (long and bony) front legs were folded under them.

4: Wolverine. Fairly confident with this one. Because of the size and the gait. Otters are too small, where wolves are too big and don’t tend to travel solo. Wolverines also give zero fucks about deep snow - that trench it dragged down the bank is pretty typical when the snow is soft like that. Hard to see from the picture, but it’s very different from the trench an otter will leave. Otters are sliding, so their track marks will be smooth. Wolverine are trudging/ploughing, so it’s much more broken up.

5 and 7: River otter! Nobody else belly slides through the snow like that. They’re also have that two foot pattern (there’s probably an actual name for it, but I’m not sure what it is) that most weasels up north seem to have. Their front feet plant side by side, and then the back ones hop forward into the same prints.

6 and 8: Shrews. Usually red backed or chestnut cheeked in this area. It COULD be voles, but they’re smaller and tend to scurry rather than hop so much. The hole in the snow is leading down to the sub-nivean layer, where it is much cozier and safer for them.

9 and 10: Wolves. I’d been hearing them howl at night occasionally, and knew they would be starting to excavate their den for the summer. I’m fairly sure that’s what is happening in 10. 11 was taken just down along the creek bed, where they had a tree they were scent marking and MANY tracks. I didn’t want to hassle them by sticking around or going closer to the potential den site.

Not pictured because my camera died: sheep tracks and a wolf kill a few miles up the river. Some dal sheep had come down from the slopes for some reason, and were caught by the wolf pack. They wouldn’t have much chance on open ice like that, and it would have been a happy surprise for the wolves (although a sheep isnt a very big meal for them, as they’re used to moose)

My son found this and I'm very curious about it!

Rural North Carolina. Seem to appear over night

Found this piece of jaw bone in NE PA. Piece is about 2.5” long. T. I. A. !

I saw these clear tracks next to a waterfall in one of Romania’s biggest mountains. The waterfall is called La Chisatoare, în the Bucegi mountain range, I’ll insert some pics to better visualise the place! These mountains are known for a big population of bears, wolves and lynx also live here and probably many other species . I was wondering if these tracks can be feline due to the lack of claws? Or is it a fox or something I might have no clue about? 🙈

Location: La Chisatoare Waterfall at the foothills of Bucegi Mountains in Romania

For scale: my shoe (women’s size 36 EU )

Tried to sit at my favorite bench and smelled poop. This was directly next to it. Couldn’t believe my eyes. I have been trying to figure out how this could have happened/what could have produced this for the past day. Could this be a deer? That’s my only guess for the volume of poop. It starts about a foot off of the ground. Maybe a coyote or a dog? It’s about 2 large bowls of soup worth. Like I’m not even trying to be funny that’s the only measurement I could think of.

Saw this while hiking in the Tahoe National Forest in Northern California last summer, and I’ve wondered what it was ever since. Would love some help in solving this mystery.

My sneaker measures 10.75 in / 27.3 cm, so the track is slightly shorter.

Exact location: 39.34506° N, 120.60127° W

Found these in a cabinet holding craft items, no food around. I don’t think it’s poop, I think they’re shells of some kind or skin. The one looks like a chicken foot/claw of some kind. Michigan, metro Detroit. Can’t figure out what would’ve left this, I’m thinking a bug of some kind but these are rather large kinda rubbery shells/skin

By our campsite at Indian Peaks Wilderness, CO. We are split between moose and elk. Each group about 3”ish. All we saw around was moose.

My 13lb. (roughly 14" at the shoulder) 8 yr old miniature schnauzer was snatched from my deck early morning on Sunday 8/9 and dragged about 230ft before being eviscerated. I did not see blood on her head or neck, both of which were covered with brittlebrush burrs. Her beard fur, full of burrs, was covering her face. Her 1/8" leather collar has no teeth marks. Her hindquarters had no fur, muscle exposed, and her intestines were pulled from the body. The critter left a print (tail? ear? other?) on the French door where I think my dog was standing, looking inside, waiting for me to let her in for our early AM walk.

I have 3 attachments: best closeup of the print, which is 2.5" long and 1" high; context of the print on the door - 43" from the deck floor; and a mapping showing the likely distance and route from which she was dragged. With my dog in its grip, the critter had to jump a 42" high deck wall to get back into the desert and carry her off. We could not find any paw prints in the very dry, compacted dirt.

I am trying to determine if the likely killer was a mountain lion, coyote, or bobcat. Location is just north of Tucson AZ.

Thanks. Suggestions on other communities to repost to would be welcome.

Weet iemand van wat voor een dier deze keutels zijn?

Me and my husband have had a pest or critter previously in the small “attic” space that’s above our bathroom so we are very curious to find out what made these.

This morning, I came out to find these tracks. I’ve looked up rooster, chicken, turkey tracks but none of these match the thickness of the toes or limited spread of the toes this critter had.

We live in Southwest GA, USA & the tracks are about 2.5-3.5 inches long from back of the heel to tip of the toe.

Any ideas?