Trekking along muddy jungle paths, we follow a trail of fresh jaguar paw prints.

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He never thought he would follow in the paw prints of those famous space dogs.

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Following in the wallaby's paw prints: Gallo's Black Swan and Constellation Wines' Four Emus and 3 Blind Moose.

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The risk remains that other bears might follow in M13's paw prints and stray into Switzerland's Grisons area.

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Previously forest officials used to look for paw prints and make tracings, which led to lots of errors, says Patil.

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But London Zoo officials later identified the creature as a North American Jungle Cat after a plaster cast was taken from paw prints made in a forest near Port Talbot.

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Rich Laburn, of the Londolozi Game Reserve in South Africa's Kruger National Park, told BBC News there are simple things to look out for - the most obvious being paw prints.

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Every trace of the presence of tigers - from camera-trap photographs to paw prints - is recorded and mapped along with any evidence of poachers such as spent cartridges or camp fires.

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And most prints found have shown claw marks, which is a dog paw trait.

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