Animal Tracking Quotes

I was learning to track rhinoceroses in Africa and tracked right up on an animal that really I thought was going to kill me.

Over the years, with hunting, I think what's become my favorite part of hunting is how self-sufficient I'm becoming.

Hunters and trackers learn not only to understand intellectually a bunch of facts about the animal they follow, but to feel their way into the very being of the animal.

I want to shoot an elk with a bow. Mind you, I've never hunted in my life. But I feel like if I'm ever going to hunt, it's going to be with a bow. I just feel like a bow requires more skill.

And I'm wondering where the lions are.

The industry is becoming very ready for animal identification.

As a child, when asked what I would be, I usually said I was going to be a huntsman. A fine profession, truly!

I can't start a fire with two sticks or hunt rabbits or anything like that.

I smell varmint poontang. And the only good varmint poontang is dead varmint poontang, I think.

I don't know how well this would get on, but I'd probably live in Africa...as a job, it would probably be a safari guide.

Follow that porcupine!

I was very into animals and nature, and really obsessed with cats and monkeys. I used to play in the woods, wander off into the woods for hours. I'd bring a clipboard and think that I was doing some work out there, following the trails of raccoons or collecting bird feathers.

I spent a lot of my life - 20 years of it - in war, training army trackers and commanding a tracker unit, and then in the Game Department, tracking lions and elephants and poachers. So I've spent literally thousands of hours tracking people or animals, and training others to do it.

I'd like to go on a hardcore safari in Africa, something off the beaten track with anti-poaching people and camping out in the savannah.

We went out and tagged 17 sharks and watched where they went. The data was amazing.

In this day and age when we do so much business in foreign trade, we need the ability to identify trace an animal very quickly, identifying where it came from - where it has been, and where it is at today.

I followed this one pig with number '05049,' all the way up until the end and to what products it's made of. And in these years, I met all kinds people like, for instance, farmers and butchers, which seems logical. But I also met aluminum mold makers, ammunition producers and all kinds of people.

Dogs get lost hundreds of times and no one ever notices it or sends an account of it to a scientific magazine.

A good tracker is interpreting all the time, from every little sign, you know? Not just interpreting the age of the tracks but also: Is it wounded? Is it hungry? A good tracker is interpreting a lot.

I suppose no man becomes a pocket hunter by first intention.

My first serious project was photographing badgers - very, very difficult as they are shy and nocturnal.

True Scouts are the best friends of animals, for from living in the woods and wilds, and practising observation and tracking, they get to know more than other people about the ways and habits of birds and animals, and therefore they understand them and are more in sympathy with them.

It's time for us to keep better track of our livestock as they cross borders.

There are no lazy veteran lion hunters.

Tracked a raccoon one time in the snow. I was in the neighborhood and I was just curious where this raccoon lived. There's some fresh raccoon tracks. He'd been digging at somebody's garbage.