I want to thank Shane Corson for sending me this report. I shot the video “looking for Woody’s .99 cent camera” and we found tracks but what was interesting about the tracks we found it appeared like the toe was down and the heal was up kind of like a woman in high heels would place her foot.
Tillamook,OR
Lloyd Scudder lives on the Wilson River near mile post 9 (OR). Six years ago 1997 the salmon were running especially heavy in November, and he took friend Randy down to look at them. They were indeed running heavy, but as they watched, a rock half the size of a dining room table came flying in an arc out of the sky from somewhere upslope, and splashed in the river. Then a regular rain of stones came, and they gave up the idea of someone with a catapult playing a joke on them, realizing that several “things” were responsible for the stone throwing…and all of a sudden there was an odor like a sewer…and some rocks were coming fairly close, so they got out of there. He seldom visits that patch of the river behind his house anymore, but his son did investigate the next day, saying he had found large tracks 14X6-7 inches. Also there were little tracks, like a baby. They were like a humans, but the toes had big, thick, pads, and toward the ball of the foot the track was raised.
Paul M
Tracks are cool. But when rocks are falling like meters I would bail to.
pam
Strange, that the toe area is similar…..maybe it was reaching up and foot flexed up?
Frankie P
Depending on how small it was, it may have been “tip toeing” like our kids do when they are learning to walk and get their balance. We used to just laugh when they tried grass the first time, or played in mud.
Ted G
Their behavior becomes a lot more serious when their offspring are close by. They seem to want clear out the area not just keep on eye on the humans. I gather from their behavior that the younger offspring are often sought after by other pods/family groups so they treat humans the same as another pod or family group and run them off. If they left them hang around they could sneak in and snatched a young one when the patents were busy doing other things. I have heard of them leaving a young offspring in a hollow of a tree why they hunt for food. Or they set them in a cove or in a nest made in the dense under brush. They are so stealthy that they probably try and sneak up on each other to steal resources or offspring. That behavior translates to us a lot as seen in a lot of encounters.