Animal Tracking Basics

If you are just looking for a book to help you identify a track or recognize common signs (i.e. antler rubs), then this book won't be very useful to you. If you are looking to truly learn how to read a track, interpret patterns of tracks, follow trails, recognize what is happening in the landscape around you... in other words, if you are truly interested in becoming a student of tracking, then this book is a great place to start! The approach laid out and the exercises described are fantastic. Follow them tirelessly and you will truly learn tracking.

This is a very good book about how to do it. It is not a book of pictures or drawings of tracks you can use to identify tracks.If you are looking for a good book of drawings of tracks of all sorts for North America check out the following book. Scats and Tracks of North America: A Field Guide to the Signs of Nearly 150 Wildlife Species (Scats and Tracks Series) I am planning to use the "Animal Tracking Basics" and "Scats and Tracks of North America" as resource books for one of our students interested in this field.

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After learning tracks and tracking for two years now this book, by its title alone "Animal Tracking Basics," seemed a step back. After reading the chapter on aging on google books I knew it was at least worth a once over.I plowed through my copy in a week and now I'm sorry to be done. This book is packed full of ideas and exercises to take anyones tracking further. Throughout the book it stresses the importance of ecology but also explains how this knowledge will help your tracking. It is a book you will reference again and again.The track journal was great. I have drawn many tracks in the last year or so and thought I was doing well and getting the information I needed. But, after seeing the FOUR PAGE track journal outline I realized how much I overlooked. I loved the section on birds as well.

I could not put this book down. It covers every aspect of learning how to track. From making journals, honing your observation skills, and reading animal behavior. I keep picking this book back up and re -reading parts that interest me most. I always learn something new. Great for novice and experienced.

Very, very interesting book. I like the advice and pictures. This will help me a lot in my nature studies. I would recommend this book to everyone.

This book is usefull and interesting. Nice way they teach the art of tracking animal. Very usefull too the charts of logs and jornaling tips.

I ordered this book for an 8-yr-old as it was advertised as "basics." It seems like a sincere, informative book, but is way above the abilities of an 8-yr-old to understand, without heavy adult guidance, and of course way above the child's reading level. I suggest that this be made clear in describing this book, as it was a disappointment for a child do in love with the topic, and I hate to discourage anyone at that age from feeling frustrated about wanting so much to learn about his world shared with animals. Thank you.

Good book with great insights into nature, not a huge leap if you use their latin names to make this information work for european wild life, well worth the money and while you are in the mood purchase "What the Robin knows" your walks in the countryside will never be the same again.

I bought this as a novelty Christmas present for my 14 year old son and he loves it.

Un des coins de la couverture est plié: dommage...

This is not quite the kind of book I thought it would be... was expecting lots of practical tips and hints, instead it presents lots of practical exercises to do (which is good) as well as plenty of personal stories by the authors.To me, there is way too much text on the latter, not really useful.The exercises are also very childish... which may be what the authors wanted to pass : have a new, childish view to Nature.But honestly it gets a bit boring and never quite gets to the facts we expect to read in such a book.Still it's a nice lecture and a fresh new approach to the art of tracking, with no other objective than to "sympathise" with wildlife (no hunting there).

This is an awsome book ! Very valuable teaching method and innovative techniques that are fun to practice and very effective to become a better tracker and a more aware person.