Animals in the Wild [ 89 



COLLECTING TRACKS 



Children are eager collectors. If they wish to carry their 

 interest in tracking still further, it is sometimes possible to bring 

 tracks home in plaster. Making plaster casts of tracks is not a 

 difficult process. Pamphlets or books in your library should provide 

 detailed instructions for preparing such casts. 



There are other ways to collect tracks photographing them or 

 sketching them. Neither you nor your child need be an artist to 

 try this; a very simple sketch will picture a footprint quite 

 graphically. 



HOOFS ARE PLAINLY INDICATED IN THESE TRACKS 



At the left are footprints of the whitetailed deer, such as you might discover in 

 summer along the edge of small ponds or lakes. At the right are moose tracks. 

 Those made by a full-grown moose are longer, larger and more pointed than those 

 of all other hoofed animals. Tracks of the moose are not uncommon in Maine. 



