Comments on: Beast of Bolivia Track

By: FodderButWiser

FodderButWiser — Thu, 27 Dec 2007 05:15:29 +0000

Honestly? Given the poor quality, erosion, etc. could be a medium sized canid, or a small primate’s hand (flat, but fingers closed). A single track is hard to read. A series speaks volumes.

By: CryptoGoji

CryptoGoji — Fri, 21 Dec 2007 00:43:39 +0000

Canid of some kind, most likely a stray dog since they are all around it could almost be anything.

By: Blue Mako

Blue Mako — Wed, 19 Dec 2007 22:08:00 +0000

Looks almost exactly like the coyote tracks pictured lower in the article, so I’m going with that…

By: mystery_man

mystery_man — Tue, 18 Dec 2007 21:27:44 +0000

Leibolmai- But the original report said the tracks were 3 inches long.

By: kittenz

kittenz — Tue, 18 Dec 2007 19:51:46 +0000

Some coyotes here in the East are pretty big animals. I have seen coyotes that were as big as a good-sized Dobie or German Shepherd.

A gray wolf track is much bigger, for the size of the individual animal, than a dog’s or coyote’s track would be, and that track just is not proportioned like a gray wolf’s track. I think that red wolves are rare enough to be eliminated from consideration.

My first impression was coyote, or maybe coydog, but the more likely animal would be just plain dog.

By: kittenz

kittenz — Tue, 18 Dec 2007 19:45:01 +0000

Not cat. Canid - dog, coyote, or coydog.

By: Leibolmai

Leibolmai — Tue, 18 Dec 2007 17:46:43 +0000

Actually I disagree with the coyote assumption based on the track size. I think the track is larger then people are realizing. Assuming the man in the picture is of average size (let’s say 50th percentile male from the 1988 army survey) his hand breadth is about 3.56 inches taken from that survey. Taking that assumption, the track is at least 4.30 inches long when you do the math/geometry on the photo. Most wolf tracks are between 4.25 and 4.75 inches long. This easily could be a wolf. It’s a very large canine at the very least.

Cheers

By: Richard888

Richard888 — Tue, 18 Dec 2007 02:31:11 +0000

If the print was made on mud, clay or snow then the animal would be one of two types: 1) certain known; 2) certain unknown. Since the print has been made on ground that does not preserve detail, the animal is “certain unidentifiable” since it can be one of many Canid types.

By: zytebac

zytebac — Tue, 18 Dec 2007 00:06:18 +0000

It is too small to be wolf. And definately a rear paw print. Either Coyote, feral dog or coyote-dog hybrid.

By: DARHOP

DARHOP — Mon, 17 Dec 2007 19:23:40 +0000

It’s a whatzit track most definately!