Questions tagged [animal-identification]
Use this tag for identification of species and sub-species of animals. Please add a picture, and write as many characteristic details as possible. Include the geographic location. Describe the environment, such as woods, mountains, trails, water, near other animals. For identification of birds please use the bird-identification tag.
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What animal could strip all the bark off the lower 7 feet of this tree?
I was out in the woods the other day and I came across a tree. It had all of the bark around the bottom removed, and a good layer of wood removed as well. I estimated the damage was a good 7-8 feet ...
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Is it possible to differentiate between a dog print and wolf print?
This question got my thinking:
Did I see a wolf's paw print?.
I did a bit of Googling and it appeared that wolf paw prints and dog paw prints are very very similar. Is there any good way (given ...
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Did I see a wolf's pawprint?
This weekend, I was hiking in the Spanish Sierra de Guadarrama.
On a small trail north of Navacerrada (used by only a handful of people each day at the moment), at 1905m height, I encountered the ...
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What breed is this very large, black, turtle/tortoise found in the Northeast United States?
My husband found this very large turtle (or tortoise) crossing a road from an industrial park towards a wooded area. It was in June, in Massachusetts, USA, at 8:00 in the evening. He didn't touch it, ...
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A skeleton with elfish ears - which animal was that?
As we wandered through a valley in a South-German forest, we stumbled across this skeleton:
A few key-facts:
Big eyes
It had two sharp "ear like" bones coming out of its skull
The pictured remains ...
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