Comments on: Mystery Tracks: What-Made-’Em?

By: REF

REF — Thu, 11 Nov 2010 04:19:08 +0000

29 OCT 2010

While golfing on the 4th hole at Summerfield Golf Club in Riverview, Florida. While leaving the green I looked and a Bobcat came trotting across the fairway. I couldn’t believe it. This was the first time I saw a Bobcat down here in Fla.

By: kittyran

kittyran — Sun, 26 Sep 2010 02:56:55 +0000

Just stumbled on here.

I don’t think anyone commented on the upper ridge (at the base of the toe pads) of the heal pad – looks awfully perfect for a fleshy mound, on an “animal”, walking through mud. Looks like a stamp or something to me. It’s waaaay too well defined, at least on pics 1, 2 and 5, but even #3 looks like it has an actual straight line on it. Perhaps the photographer had a little more trouble getting it back out of the mud in pic 4!

Yes, knuckles and an impression-maker of some kind. I’m thinking a children’s wooden puzzle piece – a car maybe? Smudged or not pushed in at the bottom.

Or a Sasqwatch, on it’s tippy toes, with a great pedicure, who smokes like a chimney.

By: Galen

Galen — Sat, 02 Feb 2008 17:26:54 +0000

Wolverine?

http://tinylink.com/?Y3Ka8QFRuo

Badger? I don’t think so.

http://tinylink.com/?61JzW25dOC

By: quill

quill — Sat, 02 Feb 2008 01:15:16 +0000

Looks like human knuckles to me. They don’t look like genuine animal prints, imo.

By: neltana

neltana — Fri, 01 Feb 2008 14:43:00 +0000

Well, that’s not as bad as my oops above, where I totally missed one of the toes! I now abashedly agree with the bear camp…until someone points out a 6th toe!

By: CBFResearcher

CBFResearcher — Fri, 01 Feb 2008 05:10:10 +0000

OOPS! Black bear. I labeled my photo’s wrong 2 years ago. Not cougar. I’ll send anyone cougar track photos if they like to see them. But these are from a black bear. Very typical of possibly a young one as the claws are not as defined as I’ve seen before.

By: CBFResearcher

CBFResearcher — Fri, 01 Feb 2008 05:06:50 +0000

I have similar photos from the East Kootenay mountains in B.C. Canada. Cougar tracks for sure. Doesn’t look like a very big one however.

Cheers

By: Leibolmai

Leibolmai — Thu, 31 Jan 2008 17:44:49 +0000

My vote is Bear. I can see the claw indents as small round holes in front of the track. They often overlap back and front feet, shown in this photo here:

http://www.nps.gov/redw/naturescience/images/bear_track.jpg

Here’s another one zoomed in on the front paw, you can see just the small holes where the claws touch.

http://www.fws.gov/northeast/lakeumbagog/BearTracks2.jpg

Cheers

By: flame821

flame821 — Thu, 31 Jan 2008 03:29:14 +0000

I say bear track but for those saying badger – I live in NE Penn I have never seen any badgers in this area, however I have seen EXTREMELY large skunks, as in the size of a dog. (I’m not sure how alike badger and skunk tracks would be).

Most of the natural predators are gone or in limited supply so I have been noticing an increase in size in some animals, mostly skunks, opossums and ground hogs. Hope that helps.

By: Artist

Artist — Thu, 31 Jan 2008 03:11:47 +0000

Ummm… lookit the photos on page 128 of Meldrum’s “Sasquatch…” at the human “Morton’s foot”, with the second and third toes longer than the great toe. Then look again at the photos here, and consider the foot without the heel, as if walking on tiptoe.

From what sort of slope or terrain or situation were these photos aquired? Perhaps a squatch was climbing a slope, using only the front of its foot? Provocative images!