This handy book will help you find out what's making those tracks in the snow or mud in your backyard, or out in the woods. Using the detective key, you will be able to identify 66 different mammals found in Manitoba by their tracks alone. It includes detailed drawings of the animals themselves, their front and back prints, stride patterns, and concise descriptions. A perfect guide for teachers, parents, hikers and urban explorers.
Ian Sheldon is an accomplished artist, nature illustrator and ecologist, with a degree in ecology from Cambridge University. His studies have taken him around the world-throughout North and South America, Europe, Southeast Asia and South Africa. Tamara Eder, equipped from the age of six with a canoe, a dip net and a note pad, grew up with a fascination for nature and the diversity of life. She has a degree in environmental conservation sciences, and has written about wildlife in Bermuda, the Galapagos Islands, the Amazon Basin, Argentina, Tibet and India. An award-winning photographer, her photographs appear in numerous books, posters and online magazines.
