Who’s been walking across your garden? Track them down with our handy footprint guide (not to scale).Gouldian finch
Digitigrade, like most birds: walking on
toes, not the entire foot. Tread carefully,
there are under 2,500 left in the wild.Frog
The degree of foot webbing is directly
proportional to the time the species
spends in water.Cat
Leaves minimal tracks by placing hind
paw into the front paw’s print. One was
recently found on a 2000-year old tile.Hippo
Discovered this print, around 25cm long?
Make track s of your own. Hippos are one
of the world’s most dangerous animals.Pig
Whether this little piggy went to market, or
decided to stay home, it did so on its cloven
hooves – also seen in deer, sheep and goats.
Horse
A hoofprint is deeper at the toe than at its
back because of the way it takes off. That
fact there... done on the hoof.Peacock
Hardly cock of the walk; the poor peacock’s
feet get called u gly ever y where f rom
medieval bestiaries to Hindu sayings.Duck
Three toes per foot with visible webbing
that helps the duck take to water...
pretty much like a duck takes to water.Fox
Like a dog’s, but smaller, narrower and
straighter: foxes tend to move in direct
lines compared to dogs’ erratic movements.Show off your best animal-tracking skills in ‘Match a Track: Match 25 Animals to Their Paw Prints’.
Ha s an elephant ju st crossed your path or wa s it an echidna? Beat your opponent s by mak in g a s many matches
as you can. Get the game from Laurence King (laurenceking.com)- IDENTIFIER •
ANIMAL TRACKS