No, they were coyote tracks. Bigger than a fox’s ... but you have to remember that animal tracks in mud, snow, and dirt don’t always look as perfect as they do on the printed page.

The footprints were big. That’s why I thought coyote or moose. I trudged through the snow to get a closer look. Slowly I began to realize that the tracks went around and underneath the snow ...

The round tracks, blurred by new snow, said bobcat, and that was not what we were looking for. But the longer Roy Vincent, Ham Sheveline, and I studied them, the more likely it seemed that they had ...

She followed a total of 500 kilometres of coyote tracks in the snow. She focused her searches on urban green spaces, including parks and golf courses, and also quiet industrial yards.