Try out the most comprehensive digital field guide to animal tracksever made.

A comprehensive digital field guide to animal tracks.

There’s something about knowing what creatures sniffed your tentinthe night or walked along the path ahead of you. And yet, sooftenthose signs are a mystery to us. Well they needn’t be.iTrackSouthern Africa is a new, easy-to-use digital field guidethattakes our communal knowledge of Southern African mammal trackstoanother level altogether. It is accessible enough for thoseoutdoorenthusiasts with nothing more than a casual interest inthefootprints they come across and yet contains enough accurateandquantifiable information to be a powerful tool forhunters,researchers and expert trackers. It breaks new groundindocumenting the commonly used gait patterns of manySouthernAfrican mammals and makes use of over 2000 measurements tobringusers never before published detail on track dimensions. Someofthe key features of this app include: • Track and signinformationfor 57 Southern African mammal species (this number willcontinueto be added to in future updates). • Over 650 high qualitytrack,sign, and animal photos with captions that point outkeyidentification features. • Scale bars with precisemeasurementsnext to many track and sign photos. • Hoof, paw or footphotographsfor a number species. • Photographs of commonly usedgait patterns.• Detailed descriptions for both front and hindtracks. • Accuratetrack measurements for a number of trackdimensions including, forcertain species, claws lengths andintermediate pad widths. •Detailed dung, gait, and similar speciesdescriptions. • Abeautiful, easy to use interface. • The ability tozoom, pinch, andswipe between photos. • Wikipedia pages for eachspecies - storedin the app to allow viewing with no internetconnection. •Information sections including how to measure tracks,basic trackanatomy, gait patterns and trailing animals, including anovelsection on the psychology behind tracking and how to focusyourthinking to maximize your chances of successfully tracking downananimal. iTrack Southern Africa, goes far beyond what atraditionalfield guide can offer with a powerful search tooldeveloped byJonah to simplify track identification in the field. Itmakes useof basic track features, length and width measurements andyourlocality to narrow down the options. If you’re not surewhatcriteria to choose, just leave it out and the tool willstillprovide you with a list of possibilities based on theinformationyou have given it. Search by the following criteria: •Common &Latin name • Track length & width • The number oftoes • Toeshape • Presence or absence of claws • Other trackfeatures •Mammal group • Location by Southern African countryiTrack SouthernAfrica is a collaborative effort between Dave Hood,a South AfricanField Guide and Naturalist with a passion fortracking who providedthe bulk of the content and Jonah Evans – awildlife biologist, theTexan State Mammologist and a CyberTrackertrack and signspecialist and evaluator. Jonah is also the producerof iTrackWildlife – the definitive North American digital mammaltrackguide. The app uses Louis Liebenberg’s drawings which arebroadlyconsidered to be the most accurate depictions of SouthernAfricananimal tracks. Full Species List: Aardvark Aardwolf African(Cape)Buffalo African Civet African (Cape) Clawless Otter African(Bush)Elephant African Wild Cat African Wild Dog Bat-eared FoxBlackWildebeest Black-backed Jackal Blesbok Blue WildebeestBontebokBushbuck Cape Ground Squirrel Chacma Baboon Cheetah CommonDuikerCommon Waterbuck Domestic Cat Domestic Cow Domestic DogDomesticSheep Eland Gemsbok Genets Giraffe Greater Kudu HaresHippopotamusHoney Badger Horse Impala Leopard Lion MountainReedbuck NyalaOribi Porcupine Red Hartebeest Red Lechwe Rock HyraxSouthernAfrican Hedgehog Southern Reedbuck Spotted HyaenaSpringbokSpringhare Steenbok Striped Polecat Suricate Vervet MonkeyWarthogWater (Marsh) Mongoose White Rhinoceros Yellow MongooseZebras

The fastest way to identify tracks of Southern African mammals.