track

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As a track which left behind on the ground or in the snow are footprints ( "footprints") refers to a living being, including the inherent odor molecules. The gait of the game differs when fleeing, hunting or hiking and creates distinguishable patterns through different step distances and pressure.

Track reading (tracking)

The tracker "reads" in the tracks and finds the way ( scouts ). He recognizes possible dangers from animals or enemies, discovers new hunting grounds and tracks down the animals. Indians who understood each other in search of tracks were sought after as scouts by the US troops in the Wild West . A trained eye can also recognize the gait from a track . For example, the tracks of foxes and wolves can be recognized by the characteristic snake.

The hunter differentiates between "warm", i.e. fresh tracks that have just emerged, and "cold" or old tracks that have emerged a long time ago. In the case of tracks of "welded on" (shot, wounded) animals, he speaks of wound or sweat tracks , otherwise of healthy tracks . For search of tracks it uses a tracking dog , or bloodhound . The hunting dog learns the fair use of his innate nose to find the track while tracking .

  • Laced fox

  • Trotting dwarf dog

language

  • In common parlance, the term “track” is used for all traces of any kind and any living being left behind. So there are, among other things, footprints, footprints, gait patterns, manure tracks, sleeping and resting areas, eating tracks.
  • In the hunter language the term "track" is limited to tracks of the shell Wilds ( moose - Red - Dam - muffle -, roe - and wild boar ), the paws of the bear , the ball of the wolf and the lynx and the feet of capercaillie , Turkey and bustard . The hunter also speaks of ground wounding .
  • For all other hair wild species the hunter speaks of track in game birds of turf .
  • Ichnology is the science of animal tracks. The trace fossil studied fossilized tracks while dealing neoichnology the research of traces of recent dedicated animal species.
  • An ichnogram is generally the individual trace print.
Idioms
  • the track ( or trail) is hot → a possible solution is close at hand
  • lure someone on the wrong track → lead someone astray (see also Red Herring (idiom) )

Petrified tracks

On layers of sediments deposited on the mainland, or rather on the sedimentary rocks that emerged from them, traces from past geological ages can be handed down that come from extinct animals (such as dinosaurs ). Such fossil tracks fall under the generic term trace fossils (see also →  tracking sandstone ).

literature

Web links

Commons : Animal Tracks  - Collection of images, videos and audio files
Wiktionary: track  - explanations of meanings, word origins, synonyms, translations
Wiktionary: Animal track  - explanations of meanings, word origins, synonyms, translations

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ CHWOLF trace observation [1]
  2. ^ State Ministry for the Environment and Agriculture of Saxony: Living with Wolves PFD page 19, document page 35
  3. ↑ Ilse Haseder: Knaurs Großes Jagdlexikon . Augsburg 2000, p. 201.