How to Track a Leopard

Don't Let Them See You!

Methods

• Fecal samples(poop!)
• Camera trapping
• Casting pawprints

#1 Fecal Samples

• Fecal sample are poop!
• Characteristics are: Compact and it doesn't have bone pieces in it
• Reasons to find scat: it tells what it's eating and where it's territory is

Tools needed to collect

• envelope or ziplock bag
• twigs
• gloves

#2 Camera trapping

Motion Sensors

Tools

• motion sensor camera
• something to mount it to the tree

#3 Casting pawprints

TOOLS

• Plaster of Paris
• water
• something to mix it in
• spoon or stick
• knife(which I won't be using.)
• and a...

Pawprint!

What print to look for

• 4 round toes and a pad with NO claw marks = a cat
• Paw impression - 90mm
• Straddle - width of legs from each other
• Paw prints are also known as pug marks

Steps

• find a pawprint
• remove sticks and leaves off print
• build wall around print
• mix water and plaster
• fill print with plaster
• smooth out
• wait for it to dry

Soures

• How To Track A Leopard
• bear-tracker.com/plastertrack.html
• Quora.com/how-do-you-track-a-leopard-or-any-other-wild-animal

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