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To help identify animals easily and quickly,
3 world-first unique identification keys have been
introduced.
The keys allow the rapid and easy identification of animals
through elimination of various categories through a drill-down operation - a
category is selected and the criteria are narrowed down until the animal
has been positively identified.
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The Silhouette identification key allows the identification
of an animal by silhouette. Animals have been categorized by size:
- Very
small animals, which include,
Hedgehogs,
Bushbabies, Mongooses, Hares, Squirrels, Hyraxes and small Antelope
- Medium-sized
animals which include
Baboon,
Jackals and Foxes, Aardwolf, Small Cats, Antbear, Pigs, medium-sized
Antelope
- Large
animals which include Wild Dog, Spotted Hyena, Brown Hyena, Large Cats,
Zebras, large Antelope
- Very large animals which comprise Rhinoceroses, Hippopotamus, Giraffe and
Elephant
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Animal tracks have been classified for
the first time into 6 key categories to enable the identification of larger
mammals:
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Rounded Tracks which include the Cape Hare,
Scrub Hare, Hartmann's Mountain, Cape Mountain Zebra, Burchell's Zebra,
Black Rhinoceros, White Rhinoceros and Elephant
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Track toes elongated and connected to
pad with no claw marks which include the Lesser Bushbaby, Thick-tailed
Bushbaby, Rock, Tree Hyrax, Yellow-spot Hyrax, Vervet Monkey,
Baboon and Hippopotamus
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Tracks unattached
to pad with no claw marks which
include the Large spotted Genet, Small spotted Genet, Serval, Small
spotted Cat, African Wildcat, Caracal, Clawless Otter, Leopard and Lion
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Tracks unattached with claw marks are subdivided
into 2 categories:
Tracks unattached with claw marks shorter than 5cm
which
include the Dwarf Mongoose, Hedgehog, Tree Squirrel, Slender Mongoose,
Striped Weasel, Banded Mongoose, Striped Polecat, Selous' Mongoose, Greater
cane rat, Meller's Mongoose, Suricate, Small Grey Mongoose, Yellow Mongoose,
Ground Squirrel and White-tailed Mongoose
and Tracks unattached with claw marks longer than 5cm
which include Cape Fox, Large Grey Mongoose, Black-backed Jackal,
Spotted-necked Otter, African Civet, Bat-eared Fox, Side-striped Jackal,
Aardwolf, Porcupine, Water Mongoose, Honey Badger, Spotted, Brown Hyena,
Wild Dog and Cheetah
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Cloven-hoofed tracks are subdivided into
3 categories:
Cloven-hoofed tracks less than 5cm which include Blue Duiker,
Klipspringer, Suni, Sharpe's Grysbok, Damara Dik-dik, Oribi, Grysbok,
Red Duiker, Common Duiker, Steenbok, Bushbuck and Springbuck
Cloven-hoofed tracks 5-10cm which include Warthog, Bushpig, Grey, Puku, Blesbok, Bontebok, Nyala, Mountain
Reedbuck, Blue Wildebeest, Black Wildebeest, Reedbuck, Impala, Red
Lechwe, Tsessebe, Waterbuck, Lichtenstein's Hartebeest and Sitatunga
Cloven-hoofed tracks more than 10cm which include the Kudu, Gemsbuck, Red Hartebeest, Roan, Eland, Sable, Buffalo and Giraffe
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Other Tracks
are tracks that just
defy conventional description: they are the Spring Hare, Pangolin and
Antbear
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Mammal dung has been classified into 4 specific categories:
- Elongated dung, subdivided into 2 categories:
Elongated dung shorter than 5cm which include the Hedgehog, Bat-eared
Fox, Dwarf Mongoose, African Wildcat, Small spotted Cat, Caracal,
Spotted-necked Otter, Selous' Mongoose, White-tailed Mongoose, Slender
Mongoose, Honey Badger, Porcupine, Black-backed Jackal, Side-striped Jackal,
Striped Weasel, Clawless Otter, Small spotted Genet, Yellow Mongoose, Banded
Mongoose and Suricate
and
Elongated dung longer that 5cm which include Small Grey Mongoose,
Leopard, Meller's Mongoose, Wild Dog, Cheetah, Large spotted Genet, Bushpig,
African Civet, Aardwolf, Spotted, Brown Hyena, Serval, Cape Fox, Large Grey
Mongoose, Baboon, and Lion
- Rounded dung which include the Pangolin, Warthog, White
Rhinoceros, Black Rhinoceros, Hippopotamus and Elephant
- Pellets are subdivided into 3 categories:
Clustered pellets which include the Bushbuck, Mountain Reedbuck,
Springbuck, Black Wildebeest, Waterbuck, Puku, Sitatunga and Sable
Loose pellets shorter than 1cm which include the Suni, Sharpe's
Grysbok, Klipspringer, Common Duiker, Red Duiker, Blue Duiker, Grysbok,
Steenbok, Tree Squirrel, Rock, Yellow-spot Hyrax, Tree Hyrax, Damara Dik-dik,
Oribi and Grey Rheebuck
Loose pellets longer than 1cm which include the Scrub Hare, Cape
Hare, Ground Squirrel, Spring Hare, Blesbok, Bontebok, Reedbuck, Impala,
Scrub Hare, Black Wildebeest, Gemsbuck, Red Hartebeest, Lichtenstein's
Hartebeest, Red Lechwe, Nyala, Sitatunga, Puku, Greater cane rat, Sable,
Blue Wildebeest, Tsessebe, Roan, Kudu, Eland, Giraffe, Antbear, Cape
Mountain Zebra, Hartmann's Mountain Zebra and Burchell's Zebra
- Shapeless dung which include the Lesser Bushbaby, Water Mongoose,
Vervet Monkey, Striped Polecat, Thick-tailed Bushbaby and Buffalo
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