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Quiz #14 - Question
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Habitat: Wet meadow in an open valley, northern Rocky Mountain foothills
in the U.S.
Time of Year: Late March.
Hint: If you’re unsure on this one, try drawing a sketch of the large
footprint to scale (5x4"), and see if your sketch "speaks" to you. |
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Photo M1
Photo M1 shows the overall habitat, with a my wife skiing
alongside an animal trail. |
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Photo M2
Photo M2 shows a closer view of the trail, at which point we
could see it was from more than one animal, following in
single file. After following this trail for a while, it
branched into 6 trails of individual animals. |
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Photo M3
Photo M3 shows the trail of one of these individual animals,
where it broke away from the group to urinate. |
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Photo M4
Photos M4, M5 & M6 are zoomed in further to show individual
tracks within the trail. Note there are 2 sizes of
footprints for this individual animal: the small footprint
measures 3½" long by 2 7/8" wide, and the large footprint
measures 5" long by 4" wide. Further on this trail, the
animal went into a walking gait in which the trail width was
7½" and the stride was exactly 20", very consistently for
hundreds of strides. |
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Photo M5
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Photo
M6
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Quiz
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(All photos on this page are Copyright © by Brian Booth
or Walter Muma unless indicated otherwise)
To send comments, questions or feedback about these quizzes,
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