June 2024 Quiz

NOTE: With all of the answers below, If you have an alternate opinion about any one, please share! We are all here to learn from each other. Even the most experienced trackers continue to expand their knowledge through their own and others’ experiences, so don’t hesitate to share additional information, observations, questions, or experience.

In the spirit of community learning, we use first names of participant’s responses in these quizzes to draw out elements of observations. If you’d rather that we don’t use your name, just ask us!

There are 10 questions in this quiz, some are from the northeastern and midwestern USA, Canada and South Africa. More exact locations are given with the individual questions.

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This lodge is made strictly of cattail plants harvested around the lodge. Beaver lodges would be larger and include sticks and trees cut and carried from nearby banks. The height of the structure differentiates it from a muskrat feeding platform.

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The yellow jacket nest can be seen as the grey nest in the center of the photo. The black bear dug it up, creating the hole, and scattered parts of the nest around the area. Yellow jackets were still present though the bear had eaten most of the nest with it’s larva.  

 

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