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11-12-2011, 11:31 AM
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| | | Snow tracks
What makes these kinds of snow tracks? I was thinking maybe a rabbit but I can only guess. I've never actually seen anything make these tracks and I don't know who to ask. It was in an abandoned car park and there were lots of them. 
Size: each individual print was barely an inch long. |
11-12-2011, 12:59 PM
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| | | Re: Snow tracks
Nope? More info needed!
Sorry I can't edit it in, it won't let me. The only additional detail I can provide is that the detail of the prints themselves were absent. It was just an indent in the snow. No toes or paw pads. Nothing like that. |
11-12-2011, 01:09 PM
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| | | Re: Snow tracks
A scale or distance between prints and depth of snow would be useful.  :
My first thoughts were rabbit, loping along, just like they do in car parks!
Starting from the bottom of your image
Right front
Left front
then
both hind feet together
repeated twice.
Hares can also lollop along in a similar fashion.
It's difficult to make anything out from your image apart from dark prints. Is this tarmac? If so, it might explain the small size of the prints, shallow soft snow and just the pads making enough imprint to melt showing the substrate.
Also consider Grey Squirrel. |
11-12-2011, 01:17 PM
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| | | Re: Snow tracks
Yeah it was tarmac. Old, weathered tarmac (but I doubt that matters). It's a drawing from memory, though. I don't have a camera.
I couldn't tell you the distance between each print but each set in the sequence was probably about a 12" in distance from one set to the next.
I also considered grey squirrel, but I wouldn't know any better to be honest. |
11-12-2011, 01:21 PM
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| | | Re: Snow tracks
If it was about twelve inches, as a rule I'd go for Squirrel with the prints slightly enlarged by thawing around the edges, perhaps. |
11-12-2011, 02:21 PM
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| | | Re: Snow tracks
In my opinion, this is more typical of a lagomorph so rabbit or hare depending on the size. I tend to find squirrels have their fore feet more parallel with each other, rather than one behind the other, which is reflective of the way a squirrel moves, i.e jumping along the ground rather than bounding. Without a photo though and an exact size hard to say for sure. |
11-12-2011, 03:34 PM
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| | | Re: Snow tracks
Definitly running gait of hare,rabbit is similar,smaller...
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17-12-2011, 06:37 AM
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| | | Re: Snow tracks
hare |
01-01-2012, 06:15 PM
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| | | Re: Snow tracks
The tracks and context would fit rabbits. | | |
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