Moose wrote
>
> On 3/17/2013 8:17 AM, Chris Trask wrote:
> >
> > I would not have noticed these if I hadn't stopped to examine the
> > Mountain
> Lion tracks in the streamside mud:
> >
> > http://www.flickr.com/photos/64004640@N03/8556420713/in/photostream/
>
> Those sure don't look like Mountain Lion tracks, or any kind of cat,
> really, to me, nor canine.
> <http://www.bear-tracker.com/caninevsfeline.html>
>
> I've just looked at a lot of Cougar and some Jaguar tracks on the web.
> They all have a different shape than these and always, the deep separation
> between central pad and single toe pads. On these, there are continual
> depressions from center to elongated 'finger' ends.
>
> They look to me closer to two prints of a human left hand. The left one
> seems to clearly have four long fingers and a thumb, the right like third
> and little fingers were held together. Not sure that's right, either.
>
> Different Phalanges Moose
My thoughts also. Phalanges too long and the pads far too narrow and small
for what I'd expect of any kind of cat. Donald's suggestion of the racoon
might hold water. Not that I have seen either puma or racoon tracks -
although there are captive puma in a Christchurch zoo. Shadows played
tricks on my perception as well; it seemed as though the prints were raised -
but that probably was not so. There are other, fainter and larger, prints to
the
left which might be cat.
Interesting ...
Brian Swale
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