![]() The rear foot on both species looks the same.” Notice that the black bear’s inside (right) toe is mostly below the line, while the grizzly bear’s is above the it. Establish a line through the lowest point of the outside toe and the highest point of the palm pad. You can do the same when you are out in the wilderness. “Biologists use front tracks to distinguish bear species. North Cascades National Park notes: Differentiating Black and Grizzly Bear Tracks ![]() Smallest toe of the five may fail to print Grizzly tracks have less space between toes than black bears, black bears toes arranged in more of an arc than griz, claw length (from tip of claw to front of toe) longer than toe length on griz Pronghorn (not really an antelope but often called an antelope):īrown bear tracks photo from Gates of the Arctic National park: You won’t find deer or elk tracks as much in/near the water habitat of moose, and moose tracks are much larger, up to 5 to 7 inches long This photo of a Marmot and a Pika sitting side by side on a trail is from Rocky Mountain mammal size comparisons. Snowshoe Hare Lepus Americanus tracks in snow: Mountain lions scratch trees to mark their territories. Learn about research sponsored by the Yosemite Conservancy and “follow a mountain lion’s journey on a summer morning in Yosemite.” You can see that video cameras detected mountain lions all over Yosemite Valley.īoth the dog and cat family have four toes.īear, otter, badger, wolverine have five toes.įull coyote or wolf tracks (footprints) will almost always leave toenail imprints, a bobcat or mountain lion won’tĬoyote has a walking stride of 6 to 8 inches and leaps of 10 feet, wolf has a walking stride of nearly 30 inches and leaps of 9 or more feetĪ bobcat track (footprint) will fit easily within an adult’s palm, a mountain lion’s larger foot will fill it or almost fill it The lab results of scat samples “for 2019 revealed that 35 individual mountain lions were detected in Yosemite: 14 females, 10 males, and 11 cougar samples without individual or sex identified.” (Sorry, these photos of animal scat are not printed here in a scale to show their size in relation to each other.) Otter: short, round or flat with fish scales, bones or other aquatic food parts. ![]() All of the poop piles mentioned above are smaller than a bear’s.”Ĭhips or massed when eating aquatic plants and thick grasses, pellets (a little more oblong than elk) when eating woody browseĬhips like cattle when feeding in summer on lots of vegetation, pellets in winter when food is more dried grassĬoyote: is like a dog’s but often with more hairįrequently deposited where they stop to look for prey at an open areaīeaver: you won’t see this deposited on land very often ![]() ![]() Their poop is dense and won’t flatten if you step on it. Bobcats and mountain lions both have segmented poops, a characteristic common to felines. Raccoons go to the bathroom in the same spot over and over, so their poops will be found in large piles called latrines. Coyote poop is also tubular and may contain the same foods, but it usually looks like a pile of twisted rope. Yosemite had these notes: “Here in Yosemite, you may stumble upon coyote, raccoon, mountain lion, or bobcat poop, all of which can be confused with bear poop. ![]()
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