Tracking animals can be difficult on many types of terrain. It’s not always like in the guidebooks. But tracking doesn’t just involve knowing the patterns left by hoof and paw – sometimes knowing the scat and dung left behind by an animal can be even more important.
In this video I take you tracking red deer, roe deer and wild boar, showing what to look out for in terms of their faecal matter. We also look at wolf scat and marten scat, and why they have become a flourishing business.
In films, the hunter or outdoorsman can look at some bent blades of grass and say not only what animal passed that way, but also give its weight, mood and general purpose. In reality, unless you’re a Kalahari Bushman, it can be extremely difficult to follow an individual track, or even state with certainty just what animal made it. And that’s where knowing each species’ scat and dung type comes in handy.
Filmed with a Panasonic Lumix FZ300/FZ330 with a Polaroid UV lens.
On location in the Carpathian Mountains of Slovakia.
Carpathian Adventure 