Common animal signs, scat and tracks

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This topic is just as a repositry for common signs of animals that you will see in the forest. Such items as scat (excrement), marks, and tracks. Please feel free to add things as I am eager to learn more myself.

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Elephant dung (obviously)

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These scratchings are common on jungle tracks and the scratchings of jungle fowl (and pheasants)

jungle fowl scratchings

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Marks left on tree from the climbing of a Malaysian Sun Bear. Its shows how incredibly sharp their claws must be.

Malaysian sun bear, Helarctos malayanus, claw marks

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Tiger foot print (this one is an Thap Lan National Park). After rain is the best time to see good prints but they generally disappear or erode during the precluding rain. This makes it quite easy to date tracks during the rainy season. This one had been made before the last rain.

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Leopard (Panthera pardus) footprint at Huai Kha Khaeng Wildlife Sanctuary.

Leopard foot print

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