This full-color book is the perfect guide for anyone interested in learning how to track animals and read their signs. It offers an introduction on the principles of tracking and reading sign by looking at tracks, prints, gaits, scats, scents, and animal behaviors. It provides the reader with tracking and stalking techniques such as cold hunting, camouflage, and using the stump method. Over twenty different animals are profiled, including New World Moose, American elk, and White-tailed deer. Each profile lists basic characteristics, tacks, habitat, diet, behaviors, and common relatives. Tracking is the definitive one-stop guide for any person looking to track and read sign while exploring or hunting in the outdoors.

Introduction; Part ONE : Principles of Tracking and Reading Sign : 1. Tracks and Prints : The Quadrupedal Design -- Weight Displacement -- 2. Gaits : Track Patterns -- How Quadrupeds Walk -- How Quadrupeds Trot -- How Quadrupeds Run -- Terrain Variations -- 3. Scat : Scat Location : Interpreting Diet from Scat -- Interpreting Health from Scat -- Aging Scat -- 4. Sign : Reading Sign -- Territorial Sign -- Feeding Sign -- Mating Sign -- Bedding Sign -- Environmental Disturbances -- 5. Scents : The Role of Scents -- Territorial Scents -- Mating Scents -- Danger Scents -- Camouflage Scents -- 6. Animal Behaviors : Territorial Behaviors -- Feeding Behaviors -- Mating Behaviors -- Bedding Behaviors -- Scents in Behavior -- Body Language -- Escape Behaviors -- 7. Tracking Techniques : Scouting -- Litmus Field -- Trail Timers -- String Timers -- Electronic Timers -- Cold Hunting -- Tracker's Field Kit -- 8. Stalking Techniques : What Animals See -- Slowing Down -- Walking Indian -- Camouflage -- Stalking under Observation -- The Stump Method -- Blowing in the Wind ; Part TWO : Tracking Animals in the Field : 9. Hooved Animals : Family Cervidae : New World Moose -- Wapiti, or American Elk -- White-tailed Deer -- Mule Deer -- Caribou ; Family Suidae : Wild Pig -- Collared Peccary -- 10. Pawed Animals : Family Canidae : Gray Wolf -- Coyote -- Gray Fox -- Red Fox ; Family Felidae : Jaguar -- Mountain Lion -- Bobcat -- Lynx ; Family Ursidae : Black Bear -- Brown Bear ; Family Procyonidae : Raccoon ; Family Sciuridae : Gray Squirrel -- Woodchuck ; Family Erethizontidae : Porcupine ; Family Leporidae : Snowshoe Hare -- Eastern Cottontail Rabbit.