via theanimalblog via poobah
Oh be still my heart! Love this! I saw a documentary years ago about a woman who studied lynx in the boreal forests of Canada. She could tell all sorts of things about their health and personalities by examining their tracks and scat. For example she could tell by marks left behind in the snow when they were hunting exactly how much energy they had to expend to make a kill, how hungry they were and their overall body weight. I found it endlessly fascinating and have spent many hours since fantasizing about being that woman, quietly trekking thru the silence and the snow, gathering data and accumulating a very specific kind of knowledge & expertise that only a tiny handful of people could claim.
