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Hi everyone , just a few pics ,I went out to my spot a couple of weeks ago with my daughter , we went down an old disused 4wd track
( it is totally overgrown and looks like it hasn't been used in years ) to check my trail cam , and on the way back I found these prints .
They definitely weren't there on the way past as I was looking and showing her different things
We went past this spot about 500m before coming back to find them .
In total there were 13 of these prints , looking like a left , a right , a left , a right etc and they were approx. 1m apart ( left to left , right to right ) spanning over 12m ,
Any ideas what they are ?

Sorry I was having trouble editing my last post so ill carry on here , I have since been back and in the exact same area I have found a possible tree seat , it is over 20m up a large tree and from it you would have an uninterrupted view of several tracks , you would easily see the comings and goings for at least a km.
This time I only had my dog with me and she is generally a pretty good barometer if there could be something around , and I almost had to drag her in , she did not want to be there , and at one point there was a definite noise in the thick bush to my right , I tired her up and went in about 20m , couldn't see anything so just took some photos around the area and left ( dog was running to get out ),
I have attached a couple of pics of the tree seat and a blown up pic of possibly someone watching me ( my guess is it would of been about 100m away from me )
Cheers Greg

Hi Greg
They could possibly be pig tracks or depending where you are deer tracks.
If you look at them as two separate prints there are sharp points on the inside edges.

Gday Slats , they aren't deer tracks I see them all the time and the were totally different ,as for pig , they were too uniform to be front and rear feet overlapping / side by side ,unless we have a 4 toed mutant slab of bacon out there , my original thought was wombat but they were different again , the closest I could find were the knuckle prints , but I am open to suggestions
Cheers Greg

Yeah I can see the possibilty of knuckle prints but I would have thought that there would be sign of foot prints as well if a Yowie was knuckle walking.

For me I see pig tracks maybe two pigs walking in single file but I'm definitely not an expert though.
Keep it up though never hurts to ask the question.

Cheers

thehairyone wrote:Hi everyone , just a few pics ,I went out to my spot a couple of weeks ago with my daughter , we went down an old disused 4wd track
( it is totally overgrown and looks like it hasn't been used in years ) to check my trail cam , and on the way back I found these prints .
They definitely weren't there on the way past as I was looking and showing her different things
We went past this spot about 500m before coming back to find them .
In total there were 13 of these prints , looking like a left , a right , a left , a right etc and they were approx. 1m apart ( left to left , right to right ) spanning over 12m ,
Any ideas what they are ?

They are seriously weird prints and look especially fresh given the dampness... anymore rain and they would be gone quick.

I see Pig tracks. When they stop to sniff or listen their feet will be together.

Definitely deer tracks.

Hi Ingies and Hillbilly , definitely not deer I know exactly what deer tracks look like and they were totally different , and if they were pig it would of had to stop every step and its feet come together exactly the same every step for over 12m .
I'm not saying that it is knuckle prints , just that whatever it was had 4 toes or hooves split 4 ways , every step was identical down to a bend in one of the "toes"
Cheers Greg

So how many prints over the 12 metres and how far between them?

Maybe sketch the short sequence.
Did you measure distance between prints and see if they were in line with each other (no straddle) or if there was an offset (e.g. shoulder-width straddle) to the tracks?

Because there is disagreement these additional details sometimes help to determine if the unknown animal was two-legged or four.

Hi Trevor ,as I said previously , there were 13 of these prints over 12m , they were off set by approx. 45cm and they looked like a left , right , left , right etc .
Between each left , left was 100cm , the same for the right .
All the prints were pretty much identical
I have been going bush all my life inc time spent in the army , and I know what deer and pig tracks are , these were not them , hence I am wondering if anyone else has seen them or knows what they are
Cheers Greg

Hi Greg,

Thanks for the information.

So for the photos you posted, where would the sit in the track-way?

For example, does one show a right side print and one a left or are they both from one side of the track-way?
Were they consecutive or did you just take the most defined ones?

Sorry for the many questions, just trying to build a mental picture.

Gday Trevor , the questions you ask are 100% fine , don't ask , don't find out , these prints were at the beginning of the trackway , the majority of the track was very firm clay type soil , it was on a slight incline and the further up it went the harder the ground became , the longer it went the less they were visible but they were definitely there , the first two photos are a left and a right print , you can make out differences in the two
Cheers Greg

I've been thinking about this and came back to it today after a bit of searching.

It seems it is not so odd to see rear and front hooves side by side or close to it. Found a couple of examples out there.

I think the alternate concave - convex curvature of the toes is representative of pig or deer tracks and in this case more likely to be pig.

Hunting Boar

Love the tree seats, would love to know where, they are a things over 12 now found all around the country with
same location and other characteristics.