Yosemite nature notes . cut by M. V. Hood Rabbit tracks. Direction of travel, to the pencil. White-footed mice do this. Usuallythey leave a tail mark, as the weaselssometimes do in snow. Short tail of mead-ow mouse does not usually show, likewisethe shrews, unless snow is proportionatelydeep. Detailed knowledge must comelater, with study and practice. 3. Detail revealed in a track dependson condition of ground or snow. Do notexpect always to find every hair andtoenail in tracks as pictured in Hoods excellent casts represent MAMMALS OF YOSEMITE NATIONAL PARK 103. Vhoto
Yosemite nature notes . cut by M. V. Hood Rabbit tracks. Direction of travel, to the pencil. White-footed mice do this. Usuallythey leave a tail mark, as the weaselssometimes do in snow. Short tail of mead-ow mouse does not usually show, likewisethe shrews, unless snow is proportionatelydeep. Detailed knowledge must comelater, with study and practice. 3. Detail revealed in a track dependson condition of ground or snow. Do notexpect always to find every hair andtoenail in tracks as pictured in Hoods excellent casts represent MAMMALS OF YOSEMITE NATIONAL PARK 103. Vhoto by Anderson White-footed mouse tracks. Note center trackwhere it dragged one foot. many hours of searching during a num-ber of seasons. 4. Always examine a muddy place fortracks, but if mud is soft, tracks largerthan average, maybe huge. Wet, sandybeach good tracking too. If track in snowis old, it will melt out to a larger size;wildcats print becoming the size of thatof mountain lion. In many of our pic-tures of casts, a six-inch lead pencil hasbeen added to aid in judging the size oftracks. 5. Remember to practice when yougo back home. The dog provides aprimer for trailing a coyote; the housecat for a wildcat. Mrs. Hoods hobby of making plaster casts is intriguing;consult the public library, practice ondomestic animal tracks. 6. Scats, or droppings, tell much aboutmammals. Tdea not revolting, if youtake a common sense approach, particu-larly in the Sierra, where normally dryclimate causes scats soon to become des-sicated and innocuous. Many times youcan tell at a glance someth
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