It is true that badgers are very hard to detect and theirspooror faeces may be more difficult to find.
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Aspoormay include tracks, scents, scat, or broken foliage.
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The trackers follow tracks andspoorsigns while scanning for the lion.
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If they see a sign ten meters ahead, those in between can be ignored while they look forspoorfurther on.
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Unless they need to study thespoormore closely, it is not necessary to examine every sign.
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Spooris useful for discovering or surveying what types of animals live in an area, or in animal tracking.
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Thespooris similar to that of the bushbuck, but larger.
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The sitatunga is almost indistinguishable from the nyala, except by pelage andspoor.
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If the animal was moving from shade to shade, they will look forspoorin the shade ahead.
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When thespooris very fresh, trackers may have to leave thespoorso that the animal does not see them first.
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By analogy, in politics, to look carefully on thespoorin the trails means to investigate what is actually going on in a sensitive situation.
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Spoorfirst began painting in his second year of college.
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With the sun shining from behind thespoor, the shadows cast by small ridges and indentations in thespoorwill be clearly visible.
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The shadows cast by ridges in thespoorshow up best if thespooris kept between the tracker and the sun.
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This requires the finding and then following ofspoorin an area known to be frequented by a leopard.
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