Badger prints ?

Gestart door wschulte, mei 01, 2023, 06:07:26 AM

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wschulte

I would like to know which species I have observed.
It concerns this observation: https://observation.org/observation/269705096/.
1 Eurasian Badger - Meles meles paw prints
date: 2023-04-30
location: Bulgaria - Lovech

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tekenaar

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The shape is not correct for badger, too large toes compared to the soal of the foot. Diffficult to judge if it is a double print (hind foot stepped in the track of the front foot) , but I see only 4 toes. This is more likely a dog. Considering the location I would also not exclude a lynx, but i see the prints of 2 nails which are rather far from the toes. This makes lynx unlikely.
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wschulte

Citaat van: tekenaar op mei 01, 2023, 11:43:24 AMThe shape is not correct for badger, too large toes compared to the soal of the foot. Diffficult to judge if it is a double print (hind foot stepped in the track of the front foot) , but I see only 4 toes. This is more likely a dog. Considering the location I would also not exclude a lynx, but i see the prints of 2 nails which are rather far from the toes. This makes lynx unlikely.
In the field I thought to see 5 toes: the outermost left toe partly obscured by a blurb of mud squeezed between the toes.
But dog is far from unlikely here. Badgers I have seen here on a camera trap. We'll see, close by I installed a camera trap.

Norman

It has 5 toes and nails, and a sole cushion that hardly passes the line of toes. So it is either a bear or a badger. The 50 cent piece rules out a bear and thus, for me, it is a badger print. 

I admit it is not a pristine print that gives an instant 'BADGER' moment, but most likely this is caused due to the mud.

wschulte

Probably mystery solved: badger. The following night a camera trap saw a badger some 40 meters further: https://observation.org/observation/270630433/, and a few days later again https://observation.org/species/719957/observations/?advanced=on.