Animal track

For the album, "Animal Tracks", by The Animals, see Animal Tracks (UK album) and Animal Tracks (U.S. album).

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Bird tracks in snow.

An Animal track is the imprint left behind in soil, snow, mud, or other ground surfaces that an animal walks across. Animal tracks are used by hunters in tracking their prey and by naturalists to identify animals living in a given area.

Books are commonly used to identify animal tracks, which may look different based on the weight of the particular animal and the type of strata in which they are made.

Tracks can be fossilized over millions of years. It is for this reason we are able to see fossilized dinosaur tracks in some types of rock formations. These types of fossils are called trace fossils since they are a trace of an animal left behind rather than the animal itself. In paleontology, tracks often preserve as sandstone infill, forming a natural mould of the track.

Images

• Polarbeartrack-1.jpg

  Bear tracks.

• Cat walking on the snow-Zanastardust.jpg

  Cat tracks in snow.

• Hundespur P1130198.jpg

  Dog tracks in snow.

• Deer tracks - geograph.org.uk - 1748387.jpg

  Deer tracks in snow.

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  Dinosaur tracks.

• Elephant-tracks.jpg

  Elephant tracks.

• Serengeti, Tanzania (2330975531).jpg

  Lion tracks.

• Pronghorn Tracks.jpg

  Pronghorn tracks.

• Harspår 02.jpg

  Rabbit tracks in snow.

• Waschbaer fg01.jpg

  Raccoon tracks.

• Squirrel tracks in snow.jpg

  Squirrel tracks in snow.

• Sunderbans 049.jpg

  Tiger tracks.

• Green Sea Turtles, Chelonia mydas is getting back to the ocean leaving a track.jpg

  Turtle tracks.

See also

• Footprint
• Pugmark
• Spoor (animal)

External links

• Animal Tracks (African)
• Animal Tracks (Dinosaur)
• Animal Tracks (General)
• NatureTracking.com Animal Tracks Website
• Bear-Tracker Animal Tracks Website
• Tracker Certifications in North America
• Tracker Certifications in Africa