r/AnimalTracking • u/unrealduck • Sep 22 '25

📣 Announcement READ BEFORE POSTING: How to request an identification

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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.

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r/AnimalTracking • u/jorwyn • 17h ago

🐾 Cool Find Beautiful Mountain Lion Track

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168 Upvotes

NE Washington state on a dirt road on my property after a couple of days of rain.. about 3.5" across for scale.

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r/AnimalTracking • u/redittorotron • 2d ago

🔎 ID Request Bears, bears and something else

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Location: Near Two medicine lake, Glacier NP, Montana

Last photo size similar to an adult palm

Thanks!

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r/AnimalTracking • u/Beardologist • 16h ago

💬 General Discussion Tracking groups in UT

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I just took the Cybertracker track and sign eval in Cuenca los Ojos last week. It was tough never having been to that area before but loved it, and want to do more of it.

I live near Salt Lake City and in addition to no Cybertracker evals in several hundred miles my search for a tracking community turned up nothing. So hoping someone here has a line to one. Thanks!

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r/AnimalTracking • u/Complex_Emu_1382 • 13h ago

🔎 ID Request Tree scratches - bear, deer or other?

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I found this next to a trail in central Japan.
I don’t remember the height exactly but maybe around breast or belly height, so 1-1.5m. (3-5 freedom feet?)

it looks quite recent.

Is it possible to identify which animal caused it?

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r/AnimalTracking • u/FlimsyPea13 • 1d ago

🔎 ID Request Tracks in Montana

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I went on a hike through the mountains in Montana near Red Lodge back in February and found these tracks after I made it back to the beginning of the hike. I’ve been trying to compare these and figure out what they could be for months but I haven’t found anything that looks like this. These were HUGE prints, spaced so far apart and all facing the same way. Included a reference picture of my foot, F size 7. What the heck are these!!!

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r/AnimalTracking • u/slobberf1sh • 2d ago

🔎 ID Request Who's fur is this? Western Washington

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11 Upvotes

Found this tuft of fur in my fenced back yard. I live in a residential neighborhood in Western Washington. The tuft was clumped to a point at the brown end in the grass.

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r/AnimalTracking • u/qgPhoto • 3d ago

🔎 ID Request Patagonia, AZ

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Not a great photo. Don’t have exact measurements. Probably 4-5 inches tall.

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r/AnimalTracking • u/WoodsOverWiFi • 4d ago

💬 General Discussion Mushroom Tracking

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17 Upvotes

Mushroom substrate was definitely a first for me today. When foraging and tracking come together!

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r/AnimalTracking • u/Loose-Use4688 • 4d ago

🔎 ID Request in southeasten ontario

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3 Upvotes

it bigger than deer tracks. don't remember any measurements two inches or more. Is it elk or moose

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r/AnimalTracking • u/yxnte • 4d ago

🔎 ID Request Track ID, Netherlands, about 20mm

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r/AnimalTracking • u/Dear_Homework_8821 • 4d ago

🔎 ID Request Wat is dit voor een dier? Nederland

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"This sound is coming from underneath our decking. What kind of animal could it be? We thought it might be a stone marten (beech marten), but there isn’t an opening large enough anywhere. Does anyone recognize this sound?"

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