International education and research in ecology and conservation, wildlife tracking, and human culture

Tracker Tuesdays – Week 6

Answer Day for 13 – 18 May 2020 Answer list: puff adder (snake) trail from the Republic of South Africa; emerald-spotted wood dove tracks from the Republic of South Africa; pheasant cecal scat from southern England; mourning dove tracks from New England in the USA; white rhinoceros tracks from the Republic of South Africa; a Charops […]

Tracker Tuesdays – Week 5

Answer Day for 6 – 11 May 2020 Answer list: African tree squirrel tracks from the Republic of South Africa, two different sizes of caterpillar frass from the Republic of South Africa, European mole mounds from southern England, regurgitated pellets of an Abyssinian long-eared owl from Ethiopia, sapsucker feeding wells from New England in the […]

Ghosts in the darkness

I awoke the other night in the wee hours before dawn. It was extremely bright due to our moon waxing towards full. My bare feet padded silently to the window on the cool cement floor. I looked out upon a large grey body. I had to soften my vision to see her clearly, so closely […]

The beauty of trailing deer… and some observations on track ageing.

I was recently in New England on a brief stopover home to visit family, and had a singular opportunity to get into the woods on some deer trails with Nate Harvey, who is also a Senior Tracker and Evaluator for CyberTracker. Nate is one of my mentors, and runs a trailing school in southern Vermont, […]

Tracking with White Pine Programs

Sandra and Mike measuring a grey fox trail, USA, Kersey Lawrence

I was recently invited to spend another blissful weekend feeding my tracking addition with like-minded folks at White Pine Programs in southern Maine. As an alumnus of their first ever Tracking Apprenticeship in 2007-2008, and a former Teaching Assistant for the program, I’ve been invited back for a few years now to help teach the […]

A Brief History of Hunting: from Wild Animals to Subatomic Particles

A blog about the similarities in the scientific method between physics and tracking, featuring Louis Liebenberg (founder of CyberTracker). It is always exciting to me to read stuff that proposes the “original wisdom” (i.e. historical) that humans used as the foundation for thought and increased fitness and combines it the “original wisdom” (i.e. novel) that […]