r/AnimalTracking • • Sep 22 '25

πŸ“£ Announcement READ BEFORE POSTING: How to request an identification

22 Upvotes

So, you want to know who pooped on your porch or walked all over your car? Let's find out!

Notes:

  1. To preserve your privacy and protect endangered species a rough location is plenty (ie. western MA).
  2. Scale needs to be something that people know the size of, and that doesn't have wide variation (grass, pine cones, and floorboards are not scale). You would be surprised how much easier it is to tell how big something is when you were there taking the photo. Also, consider stating in your post that you have included scale so the bot can automatically approve.

ID requests are not approved if they do not include both a location, and either scale or measurements. Including this information vastly increases the likelihood of you getting an accurate identification.


r/AnimalTracking • • 8h ago

πŸ”Ž ID Request These are dog tracks right?

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5 Upvotes

My friend found these tracks on his farm in sw PA, US. He seems to be trying to convince himself they are mountain lion which we don't have here. Seems to be a large domestic dog to me but he said they are bigger than his coon hound and Rottweiler, which means nothing.

Boot tracks in the photo are women's us size 8.


r/AnimalTracking • • 21h ago

πŸ”Ž ID Request Mystery visitor in woodshop

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7 Upvotes

Location: west coast of Canada

Any ideas of what creature is making these tracks? Moth maybe?


r/AnimalTracking • • 1d ago

πŸ”Ž ID Request Wildlife or pet?

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5 Upvotes

Seen in Weed, CA. I’m a women’s 8 shoe if that helps lol


r/AnimalTracking • • 3d ago

πŸ”Ž ID Request Human? Black bear? Other? (DeLeon Springs, FL)

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9 Upvotes

Was walking along Woodruff Wildlife Refuge when I stumbled upon these tracks. What left them?


r/AnimalTracking • • 2d ago

πŸ”Ž ID Request PNW [WA, USA] scat ID request Spoiler

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1 Upvotes

Found this on a fairly remote trail through a small river canyon in the Gifford Pinchot. In the half dozen or so times I've hike this area I've never seen scat from anything larger than a rodent and never seen anything larger than fishers and martins even though this area can have much larger mammals.

This was gray in a way I've never seen from bears or coyotes. I'm guessing cougar, but maybe a fat raccoon? No noticable berries, seeds, fur, or bones. Very little human presence for 10+ miles in any direction from this find. Berries have died off though mushrooms are at their peak and still trout in the river.

Main piece was around 4 inches long (probably 6" total) and a bit over 1" in diameter. No tracks or other scat found. Note that the bit beneath the longest piece in the first picture is stone. One long and two small pieces. All pretty uniform.


r/AnimalTracking • • 2d ago

πŸ”Ž ID Request Moose?

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1 Upvotes

Southern Vermont, size 12 shoe


r/AnimalTracking • • 4d ago

πŸ”Ž ID Request Canine or feline?

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4 Upvotes

1.5”-2” New York. Seems to be domestic dog but I can’t tell the distinct features.


r/AnimalTracking • • 4d ago

πŸ”Ž ID Request What kind of animal could have done this

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8 Upvotes

Just found these marks on our maple tree. Looks like claws have shred the bark. Located interior BC. Some marks are 10cm appart some are 20cm?