The below picture, taken by Woodlore office member Steve on a trip to East Africa earlier this year, shows an animal print found in the dirt. The first person to find and correctly identify it wins, as always, a £10.00 Woodlore Voucher:
The animal print found in Eastern Africa, correctly identified as that of a hyena
Due to the angle at which the photograph was taken, this wasn’t the easiest print to identify. However, some of you got it right – it is in fact a hyena print; Steve and the group were even lucky enough to see one that day sprinting past them. Of all the comments, Zoe was the first to answer correctly, winning a £10.00 Woodlore Voucher.
If you’d like to brush up on your skills at tracking and identifying wildlife, we’d recommend taking a look at the Animal Tracks & Signs book or, even better, taking part in our Woodlore Tracking course.
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Following on from the previous posting, a very generous offer by Ray !…I think the track was made by the front paw of a Leopard.
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Thats a cheetah print
Peter
Ontario, Canada
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I think it’s the footprint of a Lion. Likely the East African or Massai Lion, found in east Africa,
from Ethiopia and Kenya to Tanzania and Mozambique. P. l. nubica.
Greetings,
Jorrit Iepema
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I think it might be an African Leopard track
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i think this is a leopard track.
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Wow! quite a number of tracks there overlapping each other.
Well it’s a big mammalian predator, a female with young I presume. It’s hard for me with no experience.
My first instincts were a big cat, but it’s hard on the photo to get any sense of scale.
The small track upper right side seems to have 3 lobes and says cat to me.
Though the big obvious print centre right and below centre left could perhaps be hyena but I can’t distinguish any claw marks.
So I am going to go with Female leopard with cubs, perhaps two of them. I’m will not be surprised if I am wrong, but you have to try don’t you 😉
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I could be repeating the theme of ray’s generous gift to children in need. I think it is a leopard track.
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theres some thing there i cant make out………. is it a secretary bird???? hahahaha i give up!!!
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or i think i can make out a cheetah going from left to right???? there might even be one more in there???
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is it a lion???
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I think it’s the footprint of a Lion!
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Tracks are from a leopard
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By the way, “Animal Tracks & Signs book” does not cover the big cats 😉
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Looks round and no claw mark, 4 digits. So big cat.
The main/middle pad does not have the depressions that seems typical of the lion.
It seems the fore pad could be somewhat smaller than the rear. I would bet on leopard. It is only a better thematic continuity with the TV serie 😉
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Hi Woodlore,
Complete guess, could it be a Hyena?
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I think its a Lion footprint.
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Baby lion!? 🙂
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these tracks looks like adoult leopard tracks followed by baby leopard…
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Cheetah?
Regards
Dermott J Murphy
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My answer is Lion
Thank you
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Erm – a lion?
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