Tracks and Tracking

In a deer’s gallop, the hind prints can land ahead of the forefeet—sometimes the only clue to which leg is broken. A trail in the snow is not always what it seems.

In the early 20th-century woods of North America, Josef Brunner asks hunters to read more than the shape of a single hoofprint. In this practical study of game animals, he shows how anatomy and movement shape a trail: a buck’s dragging steps, a rabbit’s leaping pattern, or the inward-pointing tracks of a badger may tell a different story from the ground itself. White-tailed deer can be especially difficult to distinguish from other deer, and one misleading mark may send a tracker astray. What can the pattern of prints reveal that an isolated track cannot?

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