Are you coming to track down in the woods of Oud Groevenbeek estate? We will go for a walk and on the way, and when we return to the OERRR workshop near the Tea House, we will make prints of the different tracks we encounter with plaster and clay.
To find out which animals live in the forest, you can look for paw prints, but there are more tracks they leave behind. Turds, for example! The turd of a badger looks very different from the droppings of a hare or the solid turd of a wild boar. Animals may also root in the ground with their snouts, scratch the earth with their paws, nibble from twigs, or scrape the bark of a tree with their antlers. These, too, are all tracks that show which animals are hiding in the forest.
So there are different ways to search for animals like a detective. During this OERRR afternoon, we will be looking especially for paw prints.
If you look closely at paw prints, you can quickly get an idea of the animal that belongs to it. For example, are they two or four prints, and are they bird paws, mammal paw prints, or is it an animal that makes an elongated trail? Do you see a whole sole of the foot with toes, or do you see only toes with nails, or is it a hoofprint? Even the size of the print gives a lot of information, and the distance between them. A hare, for example, always puts its hind legs side by side. And sometimes you can see prints of hind legs even before the front legs! Then the animal was in such a hurry that it ran ahead of you at a trot.
Will you join us in looking for tracks?
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