Animal Tracks
White-Tailed Deer:
Fawn = 3 - 3 1/2 in
Yearling Doe = 4 in
Adult Doe = 4 1/2 in
Yearling Buck = 4 1/2 in
2 yr Buck = 5 in
3-6 yr Buck = 6 in
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Sarah Youngman
White-Tailed Deer
White-Tailed Deer has a split heart shaped hoof that points inward. When running the hind tracks sometimes are in front of the foreprints
- Sarah Youngman
Eastern Coyote
The coyote’s paw print resembles that of a dog. The way to tell which one is which is by the marks of their claws. Coyote claws sort of curve in while dogs claws are straight.
- Sarah Youngman
Tracks
Animal Tracks have been used as resources by hunters for tracking since the Stone Age. The tracks that are pictured above and on the opposite page were very easy to spot because they were found the day after it rained. When tracking an animal you can tell if the animal was running by looking at the distance between the tracks of the hind legs and those of the front legs and by looking at how deep the tracks are pressed into the ground. Quite often when walking on our plot or any other plot of land on Pomfret’s Campus, I see deer tracks in profusion. This is an indication of how large the deer population may be on Pomfret’s campus. On the other hand I see coyote paw prints once in a while, which shows that the coyote population on campus is relatively low.
- Timothy Offei-Addo
sometimes are in front of the foreprints