There have been a lot of sightings and identification emails, comments and subsequent posts lately. I have been posting a number of them when there are accompanying photos or video as a kind of identification quiz for readers.
Frank emailed me a link to his photos and a video of where these tracks were found a bit outside NJ in Willows Park, Radnor Twp, Delaware County, PA.
He notes that there is a very narrow toepad print that seems to have digits pointing outward. That makes him think gray wolf. There were no other tracks at all on the trail or area nearby. He said that he has seen similar tracks in Bass River State Forest.
Although gray wolves once were in this area, they were cleared out by trappers and hunters and the last known gray in Pennsylvania died in 1892. To see wolves outdoors in Pennsylvania, I think you would need to go to the Wolf Sanctuary of Pennsylvania in Lititz.
But might this be a coywolf or coyote? Do you think it is just someone's dog wandering on its own?
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