A How To Manual & Aid To Footprint Identification
Written by Jim Halfpenny, Meghan Walla-Murphy, Elizabeth Rogers, and
David Tiller
Power to the Tracker! Now you can get tracks anywhere!
Track Plates are ingenious devices which allow tracker's
to obtain footprints of elusive mammals. Plates may be
used in places where natural substrates do not allow
tracking such as inside buildings or on hard ground.
Each plate has a coating which sticks to an animal's foot
until it walks across a piece of sticky paper and leaves
footprints behind. Footprints are then preserved with
clear contact paper in a "track sandwich." The sandwich
may be copied on a photocopier or digitized for
archieving. Measurements may be made on the track
sandwich.
Track plates allow you to explore the hidden world of
what lurks when you are not looking. Plates are used
by professional ecologist to find rare and endangered
species by non-invasive censusing.
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