VMD 512: Zoo/Wild Animal Breeding, Management, Nutrition and Health Care (1+1)

MALE AND FEMALE TIGER-PUG MARKS

• In males, it is almost a square in outline (the box drawn around the pugmark of male is almost a square). Further, in males more round-impressions are seen on both front and hind limb-impressions.
• In tigress, it is clearly rectangular. Further, the female toe pad is distinctly pointed in the front.
• It is impossible to tell a pugmark of a leopard track from that of a young tiger of six months of age. However, you need to understand that the tiger-cubs of that age are always accompanied by their mother and hence, a solitary track of suitable size is assumed to have been made by a leopard, in general.