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description: Animal tracks in the snow of the mountain forest in the mud along a streambank or in the sand of the desert are much more than footprints. James Halfpennys Field Guide will allow the nature lover to satisfy his or her curiosity by identifying the animal that left the prints. But identification is only the beginning of a fascinating interpretation is the rewarding goal of this book. With it anyone can be a nature detective able to reconstruct the behavior of mammals from mice to moose. Tracks tell stories and the user of this book can read them. Based on field research much of it the authors own the book brings the amateur naturalist the latest information on animal gaits and the interpretation of scat.
language: English
title: A Field Guide to Mammal Tracking in North America
publisher: Johnson Pub Co