Inspect Animal Tracks

What You Need:

• Dichotomous key (you can print the questions below)
• Printed track templates which will give you images of tracks for a deer, duck, turkey, coyote, bobcat, beaver, raccoon, or black bear. This will help you double check your results.

What You Do:

1.             Is the track heart shaped? 

2.             Does the track have three toes facing forward? 

3.             Are the toes webbed? 

4.             Does the track have 4 toes? 

5.             Does the track have claw marks? 

6.             Are the toes webbed? 

7.             Does it look like a small hand print?