We see those in our backyard, but it is only rabbit tracks that end abruptly in the snow.
Correct, those are rabbit tracks. I just posted it because the “game expert” quoted in the article seemed a little clueless about reading tracks in the snow. Although, in his defense, I imagine the evidence is rarely so clear-cut.
I was reading a survival book recently and it was encouraging young people to get out into the country as often as possible a few days after snow has fallen, and to follow the tracks of native fauna as far as they could possibly follow them. Excellent advice, I think. They would learn a ton of things about the lives of animals, not to mention about tracking and survival. Wish I had read that book when I was a kid; that’s exactly the kind of stuff I would’ve loved doing back then.