Bear Creek Adventures
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First of all, I would like to thank everyone who supported me both publicly and privately during my recent hiatus from the talk forum, you are the reason I'm back. I really appreciate it! To everyone here, again I am sorry and I take full responsibility for my actions. I hope you can let by gone's be by gone's. To Bcat, I hope we can get along better, let's just remember the respect aspect in our discussions. Let's get on with it!
There has been many a time that I have investigated tracks supposedly made by a lion only to find that they were actually made by a coyote or dog. There are really not many people who truly know how to identify a lion track in the wild so I thought I'd tell you how I do it. First of all, lion tracks do not show claw marks and can immediately be distinguished from a dog track just from this one characteristic. Secondly, a lion and most all cat tracks have a very distinctive shape at the rear of the pad that shows three distinct lobes while a dog usually has only one large
lobe. You can look at your house cat's paws to see this. The only way to absolutely confirm the track was made by a lion is to follow it a short distance and look at the pattern of the tracks. A lion makes a very neat track unlike the canine family. A sure sign of a lion is if the cat walks
along the top of a log when crossing water or obstructions, only cats will do this. Finally, the size of the track is a major consideration. A young lion or a female may put down a track about the size of the average sized dog. A truly big lion may put down a track that is four inches across. Many times you hear people say they can judge whether the track was made by a tom or a female. I do not agree with this, although you can usually tell the approximate size of the lion that made the track. The only way to tell if the track was made by a tom is to follow it
(sometimes a considerable distance) and find a scrape. A scrape is made by male lions as a scent marker or to mark his territory. The scrape is made by short backward strokes of the hind feet which results in a pile of debris about four to six inches high.
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There has been many a time that I have investigated tracks supposedly made by a lion only to find that they were actually made by a coyote or dog. There are really not many people who truly know how to identify a lion track in the wild so I thought I'd tell you how I do it. First of all, lion tracks do not show claw marks and can immediately be distinguished from a dog track just from this one characteristic. Secondly, a lion and most all cat tracks have a very distinctive shape at the rear of the pad that shows three distinct lobes while a dog usually has only one large
lobe. You can look at your house cat's paws to see this. The only way to absolutely confirm the track was made by a lion is to follow it a short distance and look at the pattern of the tracks. A lion makes a very neat track unlike the canine family. A sure sign of a lion is if the cat walks
along the top of a log when crossing water or obstructions, only cats will do this. Finally, the size of the track is a major consideration. A young lion or a female may put down a track about the size of the average sized dog. A truly big lion may put down a track that is four inches across. Many times you hear people say they can judge whether the track was made by a tom or a female. I do not agree with this, although you can usually tell the approximate size of the lion that made the track. The only way to tell if the track was made by a tom is to follow it
(sometimes a considerable distance) and find a scrape. A scrape is made by male lions as a scent marker or to mark his territory. The scrape is made by short backward strokes of the hind feet which results in a pile of debris about four to six inches high.
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