Picture was taken (not by me) in Southwest Oklahoma and posted to a local Facebook page. Whatever it is, it’s pretty big.
The Jersey Devil hasn’t been seen in these parts in quite a while. I guess it was bound to show up somewhere Sooner or later.
http://www.animalplanet.com/tv-shows/lost-tapes/creatures/jersey-devil/
I’m pretty good with tracks in the area having grown up and hunted in Texas. Don’t recognize it. Googling animal tracks of Oklahoma doesn’t help either.
Given that there a 3 photos of a single track and no shots of multiple tracks I’m going to suspect fake. Although it could be an abnormally large fox.
A racoon or fox print next to a child’s foot hand and foot print
I’d say racoon or beaver. But yes one track in isolation makes it hard to tell what left it, or whether it was just faked. Not very many animals can hover and just occasionally place one foot down.
Giant Hummingbird?
Raccoon.
Raccoons have five fingers.
Not raccoon.
ETA: ninja’d
If it were not for the size, it looks like a frog’s foot.
On preview it does appear to be child’s prints for scale.
I think the patch of snow towards the heel gives it a deceptively slim appearance.
If it’s a fake, the woman that posted it is sticking with her story. She says that there were no other tracks around. Just this one track. Supposedly it was next to her garage. I think that either she and/or her husband is playing a joke on us.
Not a raccoon. They have fingers and their tracks look a lot like a little hand print with small claws on the ends.
It is also not any type of cat or dog, wild or domesticated. They would have a larger pad in the rear and smaller pads up front.
It is fake and it looks like a human hand print with 4 fingers up front and the thumb as the rear finger where a mammal would have a pad. The hand is not pressed flat so the palm is not shown.
I’m guessing it is a child’s prints for scale.
Also I agree that it looks like a human made the “animal track” Place your fingertips and thumb tip down on a surface, then bring them together. I think it will make a shape like that. Look at the way the back “toe” curves a little. I think that’s the natural movement of your thumb when you do that. I don’t have any snow or sand to try it with, but if I run into any when I cross campus here in a bit I’ll give it a try.
Could be someone playing a trick on her.
The raccoon may have his thumb tucked in (:)).
Chupacabra?
The more I look at it, the more I think it’s fake. Her husband’s handprint is just too close to the same size.
I think it’s a possum. Hind foot, maybe.