Strange Tracks?

It would help if there was a size reference. If they are small, might be armadillo. I'm sure you weren't actually in the dunes.

It would help if there was a size reference. If they are small, might be armadillo. I'm sure you weren't actually in the dunes.

They were probably 2 - 2.5 inches long .... and no, not in the dunes ... we were over in Topsail ....

I think they are bobcat. Where is smiley J?

Got me, looks like an elk who has a severe pedicure problem!

Got me, looks like an elk who has a severe pedicure problem!

Got me, looks like an elk who has a severe pedicure problem!

To me, it looks like someone or something wearing boxing gloves for shoes.

wait, not bobcat. must be aliens.

chihuahua tracks

a small deer perhaps? bobcats have 4 toes up front.


This looks close to your tracks and they are deer tracks.

I have a couple of guesses.

1) someone is pulling your leg, making funny-looking animal tracks.

2) it is at least two different animals making the tracks -- a deer and possibly a skunk following in it's exact tracks, which seems highly unlikely.

Judging from the prints shown in the photo, I am not seeing a left and right pad mark. The left and right larger prints, are almost identical, rather than opposites. I also don't see where the claw marks dig into the ground as you would see when an animal is walking forward. Like people, animals push forward off the feet. Back to the deer and skunk scenario, it would be extremely rare for the two animals to follow only in the exact prints. Also, the smaller prints rule out many other mammals, leaving it to resemble the skunk, but only the front feet of the skunk. The back feet look quite different on a skunk, but I'm not seeing that in the tracks.

I'm thinking that guess number 1 is the more likely of my two best guesses.

My official, unprofessional, unrequested opinion is that a person made these prints in the sand. The person, again, only my opinion, appears to be mentally challenged and didn't 'stage' the spacing between prints.

Teasin' about mentally challenged. But if someone does determine that this is in fact a print made from some sort of bird or wildlife, I'd love to know.

The bottom part looks like OMB's to me. But I'm probably just have OMB's on the brain after reading this thread...[ame="http://www.sowal.com/bb/showthread.php?t=11882"]SoWal Beaches Forum[/ame]

Got me, looks like an elk who has a severe pedicure problem!

^5! I was thinking it might be a cougar with need for a pedi! ;-)

Ok, we can't drag this on any longer ......
Smiling Joe you get the gold star!
Your #1 guess is correct!
Don't know what came over us ....
We were just having a little funn!
Thanks everyone for playing

you goofballs!!!


BTW, I love your dancing smiley!!!

The bottom part looks like OMB's to me. But I'm probably just have OMB's on the brain after reading this thread...http://www.sowal.com/bb/showthread.php?t=11882

yes it is long and quite the entertainment, no??

...you little teasers! Good one!!!

Good one! I was thinking the upper large print in the second photo looked like a person had sat down, and it was also interesting that the trail where the tracks were had been smoothed out, unlike the rest of the sand.

That was fun, lets do more animal track identifications.

something cute for the little ones.
trailin tracks.

http://www.lnt.com/sm-trailin-tracks--pi-2999834.html

Camel

Camel

Toe

Bigfoot wearing heels?

No, they are not fake. I have seen similar ones before;I think there is an unknown species out there.
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This is how legends are born

New species ..... miniature sand sloth????