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Animal Tracks in Snow |
| Section: NATURAL SCIENCE / NATURE WALK |
| Author: Frederick D. Atwood |
| Publication: The world & I online |
| Issue Date: 2/1/1986 |
| Size: 829 Words, 4,496 Characters |
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The evidence is right there before you. A catastrophe for one meant breakfast and survival for the other. Walking through the newly-fallen snow, listening to the swish-swish of the flakes kicked ahead by your warmly-clad feet and admiring the glints of pink and blue sparkling off the snow in the mid-morning light, your eyes suddenly notice some tracks. You have seen them many times before. They are easily-identifiable by the pattern of foot placement, as those of a gray squirrel in search of a cache of acorns it buried last fall. The fresh snow has le...
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...njoyed the beauty of its neighborhood, seen where and what it ate, and then seen its death marked clearly in the snow. Is mourning proper? The predator must eat too, or it would have suffered a long and ugly death. In realizing the importance of the predator in keeping the squirrel population balanced and healthy, your understanding outweighs your mourning and you continue your sleuthing.
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