Tracking And Trailing Animals From Your Back Garden To The Jungle A Comprehensive Guide For Beginners With A Passion For Nature

This book contains classic material dating back to the 1900s and before. The content has been carefully selected for its interest and relevance to a modern audience.

Step richly into the animal world by discovering what their tracks tell you about their purpose, mood and individuality. Learn to understand an animal’s current behavior and choices through the context of its biology and the tracks it leaves behind. From decades of field research and teaching tracking to thousands, expert tracker Jim Lowery leads you to confident identification of tracks and into a deeper relationship with animals and their habitat, using many examples, tips, and focused notes written specifically for field exploration. This guide features: Extensive illustrations and photos of tracks which show you speed, movement and behavior Thorough and concise “Notes for the Tracker” about the biology of each species, distilled from nearly a thousand primary sources “Track Windows” which teach you how to access each species’ essence through field exploration Clear identification tips to help you make distinction between easily confused tracks and compare tracks of similar species

Tracking expert Jim Lowery distills his remarkable expertise, gained over decades of intensive research and practical field experience, into this comprehensive field guide to tracking North American mammals. He fully illustrates it with hundreds of drawings and high-resolution photographs, setting a new standard for books on tracking.

Offers expert instruction and in-the-field advice for the novice and experienced tracker Tracking wildlife successfully requires more than just looking for trails and scat. It requires an awareness of how an animal behaves in its environment--how it finds food, travels, and rests. A tracker must know how to find and interpret behavioral clues animals leave behind. This how-to book teaches the basics of being a successful tracker--explaining what to look for to find or identify an animal and how to develop an essential environmental awareness. Also describes aging tracks and sign, understanding ecology and mapping, keeping field notes, using track tools, and making casts.

For serious trackers, hunters, and outdoors-people, identifying tracks and sign is only part of the ultimate goal. You want to follow the trail and find the animal that made it. Written by a trio of master trackers, this unique guide teaches you how: What to look for to discern an animal's pathway, what information tracks and sign convey, how to move through the wilderness to get within sight of the quarry, how to avoid dangerous encounters---everything trackers need to know to achieve their final goal. --Book Jacket.

An essential guide for any novice or expert outdoorsman, Animal Tracking will help readers to identify the feeding signs, tracks, scats, burrows, dens, bedding areas and rubbings of North America's most common mammals. This Duraguide(R) also includes information on making casts of tracks and features a 20 in. (50 cm) field ruler. It is an excellent source of portable information and ideal for field use. Made in the USA.www.waterfordpress.com

Tracking is an art form as well as a skill. But it is an art that can be taught and a skill that can be acquired. Cleve Cheney, a master at tracking both animals and humans, defines tracking as "learning to use all your senses to monitor your surroundings and to make logical and realistic deductions from what you have observed." He has brought together a massive amount of information on the how, when, and where of tracking.