spoor

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The automated, data-focused method also streamlines passive acoustic monitoring, offering a more dependable and accessible option than common techniques such as spoor surveys or camera trapping.

From Science Daily • Nov. 22, 2025

Volcanoes some distance away from here left behind some sturdy volcanic rock, but also this spoor of volcanic ash that drifted underwater before the PV Peninsula became itself.

From Los Angeles Times • May 3, 2024

The former crime scene is still a windswept field studded with cacti and criss-crossed by antelope spoor.

From BBC • Oct. 25, 2018

To that end the team is being trained to follow the spoor of lions, look for poachers’ footprints, and remove snares and poisoned carcasses before lions feed on them.

From National Geographic • Jun. 1, 2018

Theon kept an eye out far tracks, spoor, broken branches, any hint as to where the direwolves might have left the water.

From "A Clash of Kings" by George R.R. Martin