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

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!

By: kittenz

kittenz — Thu, 31 Jan 2008 01:26:33 +0000

I don’t see any claw marks. But I agree, a black bear is much more likely to be found in Pennsylvania than a puma or a badger.

Still, the prints look more catlike than anything else – OH WAIT !!! They’re OTTER prints!

By: squatch-toba

squatch-toba — Thu, 31 Jan 2008 00:12:06 +0000

Black Bear tracks. Cougars, bobcats, etc. don’t show claw marks because they are retracted. There appears to be clear claw marks in the photos. Bear tracks!