Animal Autographs Animal Autographs Many reference books contain sketches of animal tracks, but tracks in the field rarely look like those found in texts.
Dust can make an animal track look one way, sand or mud another.
An unrushed animals has one way of walking. The autograph is feet leave when in a hurry is quite different. This field guide takes all of these differences into account. It originally was created to aid department biologists with yearly surveys along Missouri streams to determine furbearer populations. Young animals' tracks are slightly smaller.