A Field Guide to Mammal Tracking in North America (Halfpenny Tracks)

Now Reprinted - a classic for a quarter century.
A Field Guide to Mammal Tracking is one of the keystone books in the arena of mammal tracking. The first book to explain in addition to footprint identification, how mammals move, how mammal gaits work, and how to read gaits to understand the complete story of an animal trail.
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 Halfpenny’sField Guide will allow nature lovers to satisfy their curiosity by identifying theanimal that left the footprints.
But identification is only the beginning of a fascinating activity: interpretationis the rewarding goal of this books. With it anyone can be a nature detective,able to reconstruct the behavior of mammals from mice to mouse.
Tracks tell stories and the user of this book can read them. Based on field research, much of it the author's own, the book brings the amateur naturalist the latest infomrmation on animal gaits and the interpretation of scat.