[Tagging] Animal trails

[Warin]

On 2/12/20 6:41 am, Philip Barnes wrote:
> On Tue, 2020-12-01 at 17:55 +0100, Mateusz Konieczny via Tagging wrote:
>> Given "in the field they may also look like trails." it seems to not 
>> be solvable.
>>
>> How mappers are supposed to distinguish them from normal paths?
>
> Humans are animals, mammals to be a bit more exact.
>
> The non-human paths I have had most experience of following are made 
> by sheep in the mountains.
>
> On reasonably level ground they appear very similar to human made 
> paths, and is tempting to follow them.
>
> The problems come as the ground gets steep, and as you no doubt aware 
> sheep have small feet which are relatively close together.
>
> The result is that the paths can be deep ruts, that a little more than 
> 10cm wide, not wide enough for a pair of human walking boots to pass.

Wombat pads are wide enough to follow but the animal is lo to the ground 
and can go through what to a human is inpenatrable scrub - some is 
simply to thiic and interwwoven and some has sharp needle leves that 
penitrate colthing and prick the skin.


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