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063: Understanding The Basics of Animal Tracking - The Prepper Podcast


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Product Review
Waze Android App (available on iOS as well) 

* Smartphone App that acts as a crowd sourced Navigation app with real time traffic and hazard information.
* originally started by an Israeli company

* sold to Google in 2014


* function where it crowdsourced most of its updates.
* It had problems with the map accuracy

* corrected since Google bought it


* Waze feels like a cartoon version of Google Maps.

* updated map now


* everything a Libertarian wants in a map app
* interesting with the sounds and updates that it has

* It has an almost “game-like” feel to it


* Rack up on points based on your driving where you are ranked out of the people in your state. 

Examples of items you can report on the app are:

* Police
* Traffic Jams
* Objects in the Road
* Cars Stopped on the side of the road
* Weather
* Accidents 

Examples of information you get on the app:

* Traffic
* Other Users (by username, not real name)
* Estimated Time of Arrival
* Trip Length
* Mileage
* Speed by GPS
* Anything that has been reported
* Gas Prices near you

Topic: Tracking Animals

* Most basic question in tracking: What Animal is it?

* To successfully trap, you must learn to observe.
* Next, you must make the correct deduction from observation.



Birds

* Hopping on ground

* Feet side by side

* Meaning it is unaccustomed to the ground


* It must feed in air or on shrubs/trees
* If it is a fruit or blossom eater, it walks along branches
* If it feeds on insects, it hops from branch to branch
* Hopping birds should be insect eaters

* Not always the case (think chickens and canaries)





Walking Birds

* These birds walk
* Some or all of their food is on the ground
* It will feed on:

* Grain
* Fallen fruit
* Ground living creatures
* Flesh found on the ground


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achieving adventureBy Ken (Survival Guy) Jensen