Can anybody help identify this print.

[Khakibush]

I have a farm on the Necha River probably 2km from the coast on the PE side of east london. I have been getting these strange foot prints on the farm. I at first glance thought it was a big dog but when you look at it closely there is a back mark . What ever it is it is big. I have a lot of bush buck etc on the farm. So could be hunting them. Here are a couple of/ different prints.

[Graham]

Otter maybe?

[PJ SA]

Honey Badger or porcupine, rear paw has the back pad

Are there claw marks?
Are they all the same size or some smaller without the back part of the print?

[Peter Connan]

Looks like porcupine or aardvark to me?

[Pieterk]

Water mongoose? That one long toe. The cats have very rounded prints. Antbear has very long nails on the front paw.

[Khakibush]

Water mongoose? That one long toe. The cats have very rounded prints. Antbear has very long nails on the front paw.

Ok I will go back tomorrow to check out all the above points.

[PsyPhin]

As someone interested in tracking, No clue?

The indent at the back is throwing me off and it seems heavy. 3/4 toes, no nails so not dog.
Ostrich running?

[Tony Weaver]

Ok I will go back tomorrow to check out all the above points.

Please photograph them again with a tape measure or matchbox for scale. Meaningless otherwise.

[Khakibush]

Please photograph them again with a tape measure or matchbox for scale. Meaningless otherwise.

Ok went back and took pictures with measurements.
Certainly on nearer examination seems to be claw marks.

[Luka]

Almost sure that is an otters tracks, Maybe Cape Clawless?

[WillieJimny]

I googled crocodile

Looks very similar.

[Pablo]

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[Graham]

Almost sure that is an otters tracks, Maybe Cape Clawless?

Yip, Im sticking with otter tracks.

"The Cape Clawless Otter has 5 toes on the fore- and hind-feet. Those on the hind-feet are webbed for half their length, while webbing on the fore-feet is barely perceptible. In soft mud the 5 toes, the intermediate pads and the proximal pads show clearly in the spoor. In firm mud only an indication of the proximal pads may show."

[WillieJimny]

Yip, Im sticking with otter tracks.

"The Cape Clawless Otter has 5 toes on the fore- and hind-feet. Those on the hind-feet are webbed for half their length, while webbing on the fore-feet is barely perceptible. In soft mud the 5 toes, the intermediate pads and the proximal pads show clearly in the spoor. In firm mud only an indication of the proximal pads may show."

But the size though?

Check post #9

[Graham]

But the size though?

Check post #9

Good point. That is very big

[Jens78]

Those tracks shout brown hyena, but the back pad has me stumped.

[iandvl]

But for the size, I would have reckoned porcupine. Only thing that sort of makes sense to me... Perhaps there is a gargantuan iron-pig roaming around there ?

[Dave Miles]

That is big. You need to borrow a trail camera.

[WillieJimny]

Water monitor

[iandvl]

Water monitor

Don't think so. Too big, and you'd see the tail mark too.