What’s going on out on the land?
Black Bear Cambium Feeding in Ontario?
Many current and former Earth Tracks Tracking Apprenticeship apprentices were participating at a recent Track and Sign certification in Parry Sound, where a good tall triangular section of bark was missing and the remaining bark had begun lobing over towards the exposed wood. The cambium layer was missing. This wound seemed to have occurred a while ago, and, as noted above, the tree was healing as the remaining bark was enclosing the wound. Was this Black Bear feeding sign?
Read on for a closer look at this unusual sign on this side of the continent.
Towards A Better Understanding of Scat
Ok, so the title might be a bit provocative, but it is the best I have come up with the truly explain what I am getting at. Recently, while the tracking apprenticeship was staying at the Wildlife Research Station in Algonquin Park, we encountered some scat from a few different mammals. The questions kept coming as to the contents, the diets, and the bodies which formed and shaped the scat. I want to explore some mammalian scat a little bit more with this blog post and try and understand what clues the poop might hold to the different physiologies of a few of the species whose scat we encountered.