Pop quiz

[klkak]

OMG!!! (snicker) Rick said it was otter. (snicker) He said it was otter.

[trax]

obviously I'm going to have to let klkak play too or he's just gonna be mean to people like that but yeppers Richard...it's an otter. The grass bending toward the river is from the slide they make themselves, dogs love rolling around where there's "otter scent" and the footprints were too big for mink, unless I didn't describe them well enough....that's why I came back to Dennis because he said otter OR mink. I wanted to say "no no no Dennis, go for de otter one." when he chose mink.

[Rick]

Now tell me this. How do you spell "sticking my tongue out at klkak"?

[trax]

Uh Rick, he was snickering because it was you that got the answer, not because he thought there was anything wrong with the answer, so....well yeah go ahead and stick your tongue out at him....I extend an invitation to mr klkak to create the next pop quiz and I'll stand down for a bit, if folks are enjoying them, some seem to be.

[Dennis K.]

aaaaaaaaarrrrrrrrggggghhhhhhhh.
proves my streak. In a 50/50 guess, I have a 100% chance of getting it wrong.
damndamndamndamndamn.
slide & scent - good things to tuck away in th' ol' databank.

[klkak]

Ok, You are walking down a dusty dirt road out in the country. You look down and see some strange looking tracks obviously made by a shmedium (small/medium) sized animal. The tracks are perfectly round with soft edge's, a little bigger then a silverdollar with very faint toe imprints. After a couple hundred yards the tracks stop at the edge of a brush filled gully and you can tell the animal sat down. This is where the trail ends.

What animal left the tracks, what was it doing and where did it go.

[FVR]

Round, soft edges, you did not mention if there were any toe marks. I'm guessing, med. size game, soft round tracks, walks to a brush filled gully and sits down.

I'd guess, a mountain lion aka cougar. He slowly walks up to the gully, sits there, then pounces into the gully. Mountain lions can jump an excess of 10', so.................

Just a guess, if the tracks had toes. You did not mention if the tracks were spaced out like the critter was running, or normal spaced like an afternoon jaunt, or close together as used when stalking.

[nell67]

klkak,is there a tree near where the animal sat?I'm going to guess it was a wolverine,and he/she climbed into a tree,which is why the tracks stopped.

[huntermj]

How big are the tracks? The only animal i can think of that makes close to a round track is an elk. The soft edges are from the dust kicking up at each step and it was resting until it smelled me coming and left. People do that to me too. Only thing is an elk is not considered a medium sized animal in north America. Where are the tracks located ,approximate?
Edit: perhaps i should say the soft edges are from the dusty road relaxing back into the track. Very limited experience so just my guess.

[crashdive123]

Pogo stick.

[trax]

Pogo stick.

So the animal actually fell down more than sat? Is that your contention there skippy??

[crashdive123]

You can never be too sure how animals will react to changes in their environment.

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[klkak]

Sorry I forgot to put the size of the tracks. I edited the post to include that.

[trax]

I withdraw my private message sir, substantially smaller tracks than what I mentioned.

[klkak]

Sorry for the confusion.

[nell67]

toe prints with or without claws?

[Rick]

My guess is Lynx or Bobcat. No nails since cats have retracted nails. The fur around the feet makes for a "soft" edge. Did a pounce into or over the brush so the trail ended.

[FVR]

Medium size?

Round.

Soft edges.

140 pound Georgia Mountain Lion


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Georgia hunters have been claiming for years that they see cougars, aka mountain lions, and black panthers, but the DNR has called such sightings bs. This cat was shot during deer season as there is no season for it, so it's fair game. There was also another cat, same one?? photo'd 25 miles away.

[klkak]

Rick nailed it even though I liked Crash's answer better. Boing - - - boing - - - boing . . . . ,

The tracks I've witnessed that brought this to mind were on a old road near Feather Falls California.

I was sitting on the edge of the road looking down into this brushy gully when I caught movement out the corner of my eye. I slowly turned to look at it and it was a bobcat walking up the side of the road directly at me. It stopped about 10ft away and sat down. It would look at me then down into the gully. After a few moments it started doing that cat thing where they lick their paw and wipe their face. There was a sound down in the brush that got both our attention. He stopped licking. When we heard the sound again he hopped off the road and slipped off down into the brush to investigate the sound. It was a very cool experience for a 13 year old kid.

[klkak]

FVR, I reckon that ole' hunter taught them DNR collage boys a thing or two about what lives in the Georgia woods.