what made this track?

[bamboo]

mens extra large glove--some melt

[Matty]

Looks like a cat to me.

[Hummer3T]

picture is very small, but looks to be a lynx or large bobcat

[HOWITZER]

I've done my fair share of hunting bobcats and tracking them and if that is a bobcat it's gigantic.  Up here in NY a big cat is 40 lbs and the track of one that size is around the size of a 'skoal' can.  That's a general rule, but like humans sometimes big cats have small feet and sometimes small cats have big feet. Did you find the track in PA?

[Sixby]

couger.

God bless you, Steve

[S.C. Hunter]

Looks like a Lynx they usually have a similar track with the mountain lion, but this looks smaller than a mountain lion. The pads on both tracks will normally equal about half of the tracks size. But it is a small picture so it is hard to tell.

[Pheonixarcher]

The pic is small, and the track looks to have a little melt to it. If there are claw marks, it's definitely a dog track. Wolf or someone's large pet.

[JamesKerr]

I say a coyote I have seen similar tracks in mud in southern Arkansas.

[kennym]

Looks like a kitty, but quite large for a bob.

[pruiter]

My moneys on a cat, Lynx or bobcat

[SKITCH]

Lorax?   Possibly a Snark... Very small chance of a sneech.
  :D

[Recurve50 LBS]

Mike, Bentpole sent me that pic today. I still think Bob Cat. Was that at the camp?

[Phrogdrvr]

Nittany Lion  

[Friend]

Lynx

[TRAP]

Its a canine track.  

if you can dissect the foremost toes and the rear toes through the center of the toes with two parallel lines its canine.  If you place a grid on a cat track, no toes are on the same plane.

Its hard to tell from the pic for sure, but it looks like the front of the heel pad is convex which is indicative of canine.

Freezing and thawing tracks can grow quite large over time.


Trap

[Clint B.]

The photo is very small, but there appear to be no claw marks, the two front toes look uneven (not sitting side by side) and the foot pad appears to have three rear lobes (not two). This means it's a cat, not a dog. I'm told a typical mountain lion track in snow is about the size of a human hand with the fingers bent at the knuckles. It looks much smaller than that, so I'll cast my vote for bobcat or lynx.

[bamboo]

i also posted on a trapping site--and the concensus[here and there] was huge male bobcat-and it was my first thought--no open season in NJ-so i suppose a bob cat could really fill in!
i know there was some melt too--but the tracks were in a very shadey evergreen section of road[seasonal] in stokes state forest--i wish we saw him!!thanks guys

[Friend]

Quite similar image with glove and lynx track under google search 'Lynx tracks in snow"

[Sixby]

It could be a huge bobcat but it is 2 3/4 to 3 inches across if that is a large glove. That would be a really big one; However I have seen them that big in S. Eastern Oregon. I killed one that was 54 inches from base of ears to base of tail. I saw another in the freezer at Denio that was 68 lbs so they can get really big.
God bless, Steve

[Friend]

Certainly not definitive lack of experience, however interesting.

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