Tracking is essential for knowing the habit of wildlife and being able to identify the areas different species or even individual animals habitually frequent. If you set a fox trap in an area where fox never visit, you're wasting your time.
Tracking is more than merely identifying and following footprints.
Tracks may reveal an animal's size and weight, sex, age, even its motivation as it passed through a given area. Understanding the tracks you find is not easy, but I'd like to pass along some of my experience in hopes it might make your initial efforts easier or add to your already developed tracking skills. Most of the tracks you find in the field fall into definable categories. Instead of moving opposite sides of the body at the same time, pacers move both feet on one side of the body at the same time. Bounders walk by reaching forward with the front feet and bringing the back feet up just behind them.