How Do You Track Eastern Cottontail Rabbits?
“We would like to talk a little bit about eastern cottontail tracks and if you would like more information, you can visit our website www.walnuthilltracking.com. The eastern cottontail is in the lagamorpha order and it is a prey animal that is very important in the environment around here and its feet are very furry so you don’t get a lot of detail on the tracks. The front feet tend to be very pointy which differentiates from the snow shoe hare and the hind feet if they register sometimes in certain substraights the tracks can be confused for small carnivore tracks believe it or not. But that is rare. If you look at the pattern they make on the ground though. It is something that everybody is probably familiar with. It’s what is called a bound and when the rabbit lagamorpha moves, it is bounding through the air. So what happens is the front feet will actually make contact with the ground and the hind feet will come around to the outside and make contact with the ground and the hind fee
