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Just wondering if there are any animals that recognize human footprints?
I don't know about footprints, but I do know that Birds recognize humans as not the kind of threat to them as say cats or other predators. Birds will flee from humans, but do not call out the kinds of warnings they otherwise would for other critters. I came across this tid bit when reading: "What the Robin Knows" by Jon Young.
 
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Just wondering if there are any animals that recognize human footprints?
Most animals can smell a human and track or avoid them
 
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Just wondering if there are any animals that recognize human footprints?


I can't think of any animal, apart from humans, which tracks prey by following footprints or visual signs. Most animals seem to track using scents or sounds.



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If you knew the answer, why ask the question? Is this just another attempt at a gotcha?
You don't fully understand my question, do you?

Perhaps if you were a little less suspicious ...
 
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I seriously doubt that.

Unless by "read" you mean something other than sight recognition.
You want to read pee? Here you go.

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Others have already said it but I don't think animals visually recognise footprints. I believe they mostly smell or hear their way to their prey or target, using sight when they are close enough.

A police dog might appear to be following a suspect's tracks, but if so it would be using it's sense of smell and hearing, and finally sight if it gets near enough.

We take our dog for a walk most days in an urbun environment. There's not a footprint to be seen, but his little hooter is going non stop along the ground or very close to it. And trees and posts of course ... I counted the number of times he lifted his leg one day and it was about twenty times or more in about a mile!

Mind you he'd run out of supplies after the first three or four stops, and was just going through the motions.
 
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