When hunting, coyote tracks often show sudden direction changes or pounce marks where they’ve leapt to catch prey—revealing their opportunistic hunting strategy. Raccoon Tracks The Dexterous Bandit ...

During winter breeding season (January-March), paired male and female tracks might be observed traveling together. When hunting, coyote tracks often show sudden direction changes or pounce marks where ...

The result is that Raccoon tracks often appear as coupled pairs of footprints, advancing together in an arrangement that trackers sometimes refer to as a “2x2 track pattern.” This can look like they ...

The task is easy—find the raccoon in a mere 7 seconds! It might be easy, but only people with superior observation skills can accomplish the task within the time frame.

So, it wasn’t out of the question that a raccoon would leave its characteristic hand-like tracks in the snow. I looked through my tracking books and confirmed that these were the right size ...

We're soon going to see to see a switch in the storm track and pattern in Ontario, bringing a potential of bigger systems but also drawing in some milder air.

Patterns from the bear family, raccoon family and opossum family include five toes on both the front and back feet. A raccoon ...

Patterns from the bear family, raccoon family and opossum family include five toes on both the front and back feet. A raccoon’s track is often compared to the hand of a human baby.

While hiking along the Wisconsin River, I see raccoon tracks. They’re distinctive because they’re shaped like human hands. I’m near the same ridge where, earlier in the spring, I heard ...

Raccoon paws include 5 long, slender digits. ©Agnieszka Bacal/Shutterstock.com Raccoon paws are very similar to some other small mammal species. Opossums, for example, also leave tracks with four paws ...

My love/hate affair with the raccoon goes back more than half a century. My first exposure to this masked, ring-tailed varmint came through such books as “Rascal,” a 1963 children’s book by S… ...