Tracking in Africa Archives

Introducing the first Hoedspruit Tracking Club!

All people come from cultures that tracked animals. In every family group and village across the world, it was important that men, women, and children were able to identify tracks. But they didn’t need to know every track. They focused on the ones that were important. It was important to be able to see, Read More

Category: Tracking in Africa, Wildlife Tracking

Tracker Tuesdays – Answers for June 2020

We’ve moved to a monthly newsletter format for #TrackerTuesdays, so a new question will be posed every Tuesday, and answers will be published on the first Tuesday of every month. Answer list: Spotted towhee from the Channel Islands in California; Namaqua rock mouse nest from the Republic of South Africa; zebra tracks from the, Read More

Category: CyberTracker, ORIGINAL WISDOM, Tracker Mentoring, Tracker Tuesdays, Tracking in Africa, Wildlife Trackers, Wildlife Tracking Tags: animal tracking, bird scat, bird tracks, bird tracks and signs, California, Channel Islands, Greater Kruger, green pigeon, green pigeon scat, mouse nest, Namaqua rock mouse, Namaqua rock mouse nest, nest, pigeon scat, scat, South Africa, spotted towhee, spotted towhee tracks, track and sign, Tracks and Signs, USA, Wildlife Tracking, zebra, zebra tracks

Tracker Tuesdays – Week 9

Tracker Tuesdays – Week 9 Answers to our Daily Tracking Challenge This is a time to create and share content that engages, entertains, educates and inspires the world. HEADS UP, TRACKERS! Even though we aren’t out of the proverbial “woods” yet with this coronavirus pandemic, I need to start transitioning away from a #DAILYTRACKINGCHALLENGE., Read More

Category: CyberTracker, ORIGINAL WISDOM, South African Mammals, Tracker Mentoring, Tracker Tuesdays, Tracking in Africa, Wildlife Trackers, Wildlife Tracking Tags: African wildcat, African wildcat tracks, animal tracking, bark beetle galleries, bark beetle sign, beetle galleries, beetle sign, bird nest, bird nests, bird tracks and signs, black rhinoceros, black rhinoceros tracks, Connecticut, domestic cat, domestic cat tracks, Europe, hippo, hippo skull, hippopotamus, hippopotamus skull, house cat, New England, Poland, rhino, rhinoceros, rhinoceros tracks, snow tracking, snow tracks, South Africa, STROOP, track and sign, Tracks and Signs, white rhinoceros, white rhinoceros tracks, wildcat tracks, Wildlife Tracking

Tracker Tuesdays – Week 8!

Here’s a link to our newsletter at Original Wisdom, with detailed answers to our Daily Tracking Challenge. Answers for 20 – 25 May 2020 This is a time to create and share content that engages, entertains, educates and inspires the world. We post a question a day, except for Tuesdays because that’s Answer Day!, Read More

Category: CyberTracker, ORIGINAL WISDOM, Tracker Mentoring, Tracking in Africa, Wildlife Trackers, Wildlife Tracking Tags: Africa, animal tracking, bird nest, bird nests, bird tracks and signs, bobcat, California, cape clawless otter, cape clawless otter tracks, Channel Islands, Connecticut, deer bed, England, Eurasian hedgehog, Europe, hedgehog, hedgehog tracks, island spotted skunk, kill site, otter tracks, red-headed weaver, red-headed weaver nest, snow tracks, soaring dynamics, South Africa, track and sign, Tracks and Signs, USA, vultures, white-tailed deer, white-tailed deer bed, Wildlife Tracking

Tracker Tuesdays – Week 7

Answers to our Daily Tracking Challenge This is a time to create and share content that engages, entertains, educates and inspires the world. We post a question a day, except for Tuesdays because that’s Answer Day! Answer list: Bennett’s wallaby tracks from Tasmania; grey squirrel tracks in snow from Connecticut in the USA; lilac-breasted, Read More

Category: CyberTracker, ORIGINAL WISDOM, South African Mammals, Tracker Mentoring, Tracker Tuesdays, Tracking in Africa, Wildlife Trackers, Wildlife Tracking Tags: alarm calls, ancestors, animal communication, animal tracking, Australian tracks and signs, Bennett’s wallaby, Bennett’s wallaby tracks, bird feathers, bird language, bird tracks and signs, Connecticut, grey squirrel, grey squirrel tracks, human history, human tracks and signs, lilac-breasted roller, Poland, primary feathers, red fox, red fox tracks, red-billed oxpecker, sharpening stone, snow tracks, squirrel tracks, Tasmania, track and sign, Tracks and Signs, USA, wallaby tracks, Wildlife Tracking, wing feathers

Tracker Tuesdays – Week 6

Answer Day for 13 – 18 May 2020 Answer list: puff adder (snake) trail from the Republic of South Africa; emerald-spotted wood dove tracks from the Republic of South Africa; pheasant cecal scat from southern England; mourning dove tracks from New England in the USA; white rhinoceros tracks from the Republic of South Africa; a, Read More

Category: CyberTracker, ORIGINAL WISDOM, South African Mammals, Tracker Mentoring, Tracking in Africa, Wildlife Trackers, Wildlife Tracking Tags: #dailytrackingchallenge, #trackertuesdays, animal tracking, bird tracks, bird tracks and signs, Charops wasp cocoon, dove tracks, emerald-spotted wood dove, England, insect signs, invertebrate tracks and signs, mourning dove, mourning dove tracks, pheasant, pheasant scat, rhinoceros, rhinoceros tracks, snake, snake tracks, South Africa, STROOP, Tags: puff adder, track and sign, Tracks and Signs, USA, wasp cocoon, wasp sign, white rhinoceros, white rhinoceros tracks, Wildlife Tracking

Tracker Tuesdays – Week 5

Answer Day for 6 – 11 May 2020 Answer list: African tree squirrel tracks from the Republic of South Africa, two different sizes of caterpillar frass from the Republic of South Africa, European mole mounds from southern England, regurgitated pellets of an Abyssinian long-eared owl from Ethiopia, sapsucker feeding wells from New England in, Read More

Category: CyberTracker, ORIGINAL WISDOM, Tracking in Africa, Wildlife Trackers, Wildlife Tracking Tags: African tree squirrel tracks, caterpillar frass, England, Ethiopia, European mole mounds, pheasant tracks, regurgitated owl pellets, sapsucker feeding wells, South Africa, USA

Community service on Mandela Day! Hopkinton/Bow Student Blog #13

Community service on Mandela Day! Hopkinton/Bow Student Blog #13 Michelle Neal July 18th, 2015 Day 17 The following blog post is created by a Hopkinton/Bow High School student from New Hampshire, who is on program with Original Wisdom, partnering with Nature Guide Training, on a 3-week South African Ecology & Culture program at Djuma, Read More

Category: Nature Guide Training, ORIGINAL WISDOM, Study Abroad, Tracking in Africa Tags: Bow High School, Develop Competence Develop Confidence, Hopkinton High School, International Adventure Education, S.T.E.A.M., We Are All Related