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Brian Booth's Tracking
Quizzes
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Quiz #2 - Question
(December 2002)
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- Habitat: Suburban powerline / railroad corridor, treeless, thickly
grown with thickets of rose & raspberry, plus thistle, mullein,
pokeweed. Plentiful water. Tracks were 50 yards behind a row of
residential houses.
- Location: Hartford, Connecticut.
- Time of Year: November 30 (second snow of the year here).
- Substrate: 2" of fresh, wet snow. The "Trail 3"
photo shows tracks in a thicket, in which the 2" of fresh snow
was on top of 5" of previous snow; the remainder of the photos
show tracks on a dirt road, which had melted out almost bare prior
to the 2" of snow.
- Footprint size: 1 ½" long x 1 ¼" wide.
- Stride: 5" almost every stride; occasionally up to 5
½".
- Trail Width: 3 ½".
- Trail was very zigzag & meandering (see "Trail 1"
photo). Note avoidance of mud puddles (see "Trail 2"). Made
regular use of snow-covered thickets as shelter (see "Trail
3"). Drags feet slightly in 2" deep snow (see "Stride
& Trail Width").
Have fun,
Brian
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Footprint 1
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Footprint 2
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Footprint 3
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Front & Rear Print
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Claws
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Trail 1
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Trail 2
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Trail 3
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Stride & Trail width
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Quiz
#2 - Answer |
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© by Brian Booth unless indicated otherwise)
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