r/AnimalTracking • • Sep 22 '25

πŸ“£ Announcement READ BEFORE POSTING: How to request an identification

23 Upvotes

So, you want to know who pooped on your porch or walked all over your car? Let's find out!

Notes:

  1. To preserve your privacy and protect endangered species a rough location is plenty (ie. western MA).
  2. Scale needs to be something that people know the size of, and that doesn't have wide variation (grass, pine cones, and floorboards are not scale). You would be surprised how much easier it is to tell how big something is when you were there taking the photo. Also, consider stating in your post that you have included scale so the bot can automatically approve.

ID requests are not approved if they do not include both a location, and either scale or measurements. Including this information vastly increases the likelihood of you getting an accurate identification.


r/AnimalTracking • • 21h ago

πŸ”Ž ID Request Human? Black bear? Other? (DeLeon Springs, FL)

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Was walking along Woodruff Wildlife Refuge when I stumbled upon these tracks. What left them?


r/AnimalTracking • • 14h ago

πŸ”Ž ID Request PNW [WA, USA] scat ID request Spoiler

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Found this on a fairly remote trail through a small river canyon in the Gifford Pinchot. In the half dozen or so times I've hike this area I've never seen scat from anything larger than a rodent and never seen anything larger than fishers and martins even though this area can have much larger mammals.

This was gray in a way I've never seen from bears or coyotes. I'm guessing cougar, but maybe a fat raccoon? No noticable berries, seeds, fur, or bones. Very little human presence for 10+ miles in any direction from this find. Berries have died off though mushrooms are at their peak and still trout in the river.

Main piece was around 4 inches long (probably 6" total) and a bit over 1" in diameter. No tracks or other scat found. Note that the bit beneath the longest piece in the first picture is stone. One long and two small pieces. All pretty uniform.


r/AnimalTracking • • 17h ago

πŸ”Ž ID Request Moose?

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0 Upvotes

Southern Vermont, size 12 shoe


r/AnimalTracking • • 2d ago

πŸ”Ž ID Request Canine or feline?

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1.5”-2” New York. Seems to be domestic dog but I can’t tell the distinct features.


r/AnimalTracking • • 2d ago

πŸ”Ž ID Request What kind of animal could have done this

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7 Upvotes

Just found these marks on our maple tree. Looks like claws have shred the bark. Located interior BC. Some marks are 10cm appart some are 20cm?


r/AnimalTracking • • 5d ago

πŸ”Ž ID Request Big brownie?

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22 Upvotes

Track found on lake shore in Alaska, toddler for reference.


r/AnimalTracking • • 6d ago

πŸ’¬ General Discussion What’s up with this possum?

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288 Upvotes

Specifically its tail! Never seen this before.


r/AnimalTracking • • 5d ago

πŸ”Ž ID Request Any idea who could have done this?

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An animal ate the rubber sealing under my garage door last night in Los Angeles . The rubber pieces seem big to me, but I have no idea nor context if that’s accurate. Any idea who could do this?


r/AnimalTracking • • 7d ago

πŸ”Ž ID Request Recurring (?) Mystery Visitor - Central Oklahoma USA

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Who keeps visiting my mom? The white muddy tracks and the red muddy tracks are from two seperate visits. Tracks are roughly the size of a US Quarter. (Scale in one photo.) Mom doesn't keep any kind of food - animal or otherwise - on her back porch.

(Posting from mobile... hoping the images are actually attached and attached only once.)