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Which animal leaves a spoor that trackers commonly follow?

spoor

[spoor, spawr, spohr] / spʊər, spɔr, spoʊr /


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The automated, data-focused method also streamlines passive acoustic monitoring, offering a more dependable and accessible option than common techniques such as spoor surveys or camera trapping.

From Science Daily ● Nov. 22, 2025

Sweet gums, out; They’re also invasive, triggering allergies, and dropping nasty, spiky balls like alien spoor.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 10, 2025

The former crime scene is still a windswept field studded with cacti and criss-crossed by antelope spoor.

From BBC ● Oct. 25, 2018

To that end the team is being trained to follow the spoor of lions, look for poachers’ footprints, and remove snares and poisoned carcasses before lions feed on them.

From National Geographic ● Jun. 1, 2018

Theon kept an eye out far tracks, spoor, broken branches, any hint as to where the direwolves might have left the water.

From "A Clash of Kings" by George R.R. Martin




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