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Survival Skillset

Lesson 4 of 12

Feeding sign, bark damage, diggings and kills

35 min

Under an old hazel at the edge of a wood the ground is scattered with empty nutshells. Most people would see litter. Look closer with a hand lens and each shell is a signature. Some are split cleanly in two. Some have a neat round hole with a smooth inner rim. Some have a hole with tooth marks radiating across the rim like the spokes of a wheel. Three different…

In this lesson

  • Who opened this hazelnut?
  • Who stripped this cone?
  • Browse and graze: who ate this?
  • Bark stripping, fraying and scoring
  • Diggings, scrapes and rooting
  • Kills, carcasses, plucking posts and pellets
  • Common mistakes
  • Check yourself
  • Key points

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