Faint

This collage illustrates why animal tracking is such a very specialised skill. The bottom pictures of this collage shows a Lion track on the side of the road (Toes on the right, foot pad on the left).

Unless one has experience and the aptitude for reading tracks one would never interpret this faint print on the ground as that of a Lion. I am not very good at this, but my tracker Bheki Ngubane can spot these tracks from a moving vehicle!

The picture on top shows the corresponding underside of the back foot of a Lioness. The track shown in the bottom picture was created by her walking just before she lay down to rest.

Technical data: Canon R6 with RF lens f11/800mm | ISO 6400 | 1/60sec | ev+0 | WB 6500K | AV Mode | Crop to 50% of original image

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