Track and trace ID

[FerlasDave]

Ok a little pop quiz then…

I spotted these whilst out walking in Peterborough yesterday. Just a little fun for people to guess who left this behind!

 

[Kadushu]

Mr Tumnus?

 

[TeeDee]

Was it something exotic?

 

[FerlasDave]

Was it something exotic?

Just a native. No Komodo dragons around Peterborough I’m aware of..

 

[TeeDee]

Just a native. No Komodo dragons around Peterborough I’m aware of..

Well.... they are an ambush predator.. So maybe there are and you are just unwitting prey.

 

[nigelp]

I know.

 

[demented dale]

wilder beast. unmistakable x

 

[FerlasDave]

wilder beast. unmistakable x

Incorrect!

 

[FerlasDave]

I shouldn’t have to add… Yes, it’s obviously a cervinae. But what kind?!

 

[demented dale]

Incorrect!

lol. peterborough is renouned for them. Red deer stag

 

[Kepis]

Fallow Deer?

 

[Falstaff]

Quite clearly a single tracked tyred vehicle - which makes it a motorbike, unless we are being shown only one half of the track - standard road tyres not off road ones, and by the width it would have to be a large capacity motorbike, but more likely half the picture and its a standard car track.

 

[HillBill]

Definitely an Aurochs.

 

[JonathanD]

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[FerlasDave]

Any serious suggestions?

 

[John Fenna]

The lack of any real scale makes it hard .... but the uneven size of the slots suggests Muntjac - or sheep!
The droppings look more like sheep (round) than cylindrical (deer).

 

[mrmike]

'tis obviously a roe deer pushing a wheelbarrow

 

[Falstaff]

'tis obviously a roe deer pushing a wheelbarrow

Ah, yes wheel barrow of course, and there was me thinking it was roe deer riding a motorbike, silly idea.

Ferlass Dave - sorry we are being flippant but I think you've got us beat!

 

[FerlasDave]

The lack of any real scale makes it hard .... but the uneven size of the slots suggests Muntjac - or sheep!
The droppings look more like sheep (round) than cylindrical (deer).

I thought it was pretty straightforward so I didn’t add anything for scale. It’s arable farm land if that helps.

 

[Broch]

All six species of deer are found in the Peterborough area. I can't see positive evidence of one cleave being longer than the other (which, as John says, would indicate Muntjac) and the print does not look 'robust' enough for Red; Kepis has suggested Fallow so I assume that's rejected - Sika is pretty rare in that area, so I'm going to go with Roe