| Re: Animal Tracks & Signs Reprint I only have the original, and some things (including the page numbers) are different
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Someone please look on page 67 for me at the photo in the centre at the bottom of the page. This says it is a fox print. I am familiar with the technique of putting a line, or an "x" through a track to determine if it is a fox or dog. They mention it above, on the very same page, but the one in the photo doesn't seem to fall in line with my (or their) criteria for a fox track. Anyone see the same thing?
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I can see what you mean - it may be due to the fact the the print is in soft mud and the pad prints have spread. It does seem quite a narrow (and therefore foxlike) track but not the best one to use as an illustration.
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On page 53, there are the tracks of a field vole jumping in the snow. (note marks from the "long tail" between the tracks... ) except field voles have particularly short tails. Could this be a bank vole track and it is just a typo??
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Don't think I have the same picture - in mine it shows a "splat" where the vole has jumped down from a tree and two pairs of marks off to the left where the animal has jumped away, and it's captioned bank vole.
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Now turn to page 138, where there is a photo of a hazelnut eaten by a yellow-necked mouse / wood mouse on the "left" and a bank vole on the "right". I'm pretty sure these are backwards, again, according to both my experience and their text... Mice leave marks all over the outside of the edge of the hole, whereas voles are quite neat and tidy. The photos are backwards...
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No photogs of nuts - just paintings which look correctly captioned to me.
henrya |