Reading animal pug marks........fascinating!

[V S Sankar]

Trying to understand pug marks is fascinating!There is not much difference between a Leopard and tiger pug mark except that the Tiger pug mark is bigger.The male Tigers pug mark are different from female in that the toes are more distantly places.For a female Tiger they are much closer.In male Tigers the Pug Mark Breadth(PMB) is longer than Pug Mark Length(PML).The shape of the toes in male Tigers are more rounded while a female Tiger's is elongated.Also there are differences between PML and PMB.

Based on the understanding this pug mark looks like of a female Tiger!

Canon 80D,Canon 100-400 IS II USM, f5,1/100,ISO 100 at 112mm

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V S Sankar

[Mrudul Godbole]

Agree it does look like a Female tigers pug marks. Jim Corbett had also explained two fundamental rules on how to determine the species of the animal that has made the track:
- Animals who stalk their prey (tigers, leopards) have small toes as compared to their pads.
- Imprint of the claws does not show in the tracks of animals that stalk their prey.

Thanks for sharing.