Tracking & the Art of Seeing: How to Read Animal Tracks & Sign - Hardcover

Rezendes, Paul

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0944475337 ISBN 13: 9780944475331

Publisher: Camden House Pub, 1992

Synopsis

A comprehensive guide to animal tracking covers rodents, rabbits, weasels, racoons, foxes, wolves, coyotes, deer, sheep, elk, moose, and bears

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Review

A good observer of nature, walking, say, in an oak forest, may discern that some of the acorns on which he or she is treading are broken into little bits. After reading wildlife interpreter and photographer Paul Rezendes's guidebook to animal signs, that same observer will be able to tell which of those acorns have been split by human footsteps and deer hooves and which have been gnawed apart by squirrels--and by what species of squirrel. A wonderfully thorough, well-illustrated compendium, Rezendes's text covers a wide range of North American animal species, including rodents, hoofed animals, bears, raccoons, opossums, and members of the weasel, rabbit, dog, and cat families. He describes not only the signs these animals leave but also their ways of life throughout the year, and with an appropriately environmentalist purpose. "Ultimately," Rezendes writes, "tracking an animal makes us sensitive to it--a bond is formed, an intimacy develops. We begin to realize that what is happening to the animals and to the planet is actually happening to us." He's right, of course, but one need not take such a macrocosmic view of nature to take pleasure in, and learn from, this fine book. --Gregory McNamee

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Paul Rezendes

Edition details

• Publisher: Camden House Pub
• Publication date: 1992
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0944475337
• ISBN 13: 9780944475331
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 320