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04-02-2009, 09:12 AM
|  | Commander of the Wild Empire | | Join Date: Nov 2006 Location: Shropshire
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| | | Another request to help identify prints, please
  
They were on a canal towpath in north Shropshire. They came out of the canal, followed the bank for several tens of yards before disappearing down the bank. The man who sent them says "We have an animal that places all four feet approximately in the same place approx a foot apart".
My concern, as ever, is that it might be mink. Any thoughts? Thanks in advance. |
04-02-2009, 09:29 AM
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| | | Re: Another request to help identify prints, please
It is indeed from either a mink or a polecat, almost impossible to distinguish, but the fact they left the water is a pretty big clue as polecats are terrestrial. So yes Mink. |
04-02-2009, 12:47 PM
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| | | Re: Another request to help identify prints, please
Thanks! |
04-02-2009, 01:08 PM
|  | Knight Commander of the Wild Empire | | Join Date: Mar 2006 Location: Near Peterborough
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| | | Re: Another request to help identify prints, please
yes mink for me too I'm afraid |
04-02-2009, 02:56 PM
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| | | Re: Another request to help identify prints, please
Typical of the bounding locomotion of mustelids. The water voles arch enemy - the mink. |
04-02-2009, 05:31 PM
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| | | Re: Another request to help identify prints, please
I agree, with Mink  |
04-02-2009, 08:42 PM
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| | | Re: Another request to help identify prints, please
Another vote for Mink
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05-02-2009, 07:04 AM
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| | | Re: Another request to help identify prints, please
Thanks, guys.  | | |
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