Footprints

thumb | right | Buzz Aldrin's bootprint on the [[Moon in 1969 on the Apollo 11 mission]] Footprints are the impressions or images left behind by a person walking or running. Hoofprints and pawprints are those left by animals with hooves or paws rather than feet, while "shoeprints" is the specific term for prints made by shoes. They may either be indentations in the ground or something placed onto the surface that was stuck to the bottom of the foot. A "trackway" is a set of footprints in soft earth left by a life-form; animal tracks are the footprints, hoofprints, or pawprints of an animal.

any sign of a creature or trace by which the progress of someone or something may be followed; may include tracks, scents, scat, or broken foliage

thumb|A footprint (replica shown) carved into the rock on Dunadd, in [[Argyll, is linked to the crowning of the Scots kings of Dál Riata.]]

A pugmark is a footprint left by a wild animal. The distinctive pugmark of an individual species is useful for identification. "Pug" means foot in Hindi (Sanskrit पद् "pad"; Greek πούς "poús"). thumb|right|300px|An image of a thylacine pugmark Pugmark tracking is a technique used by wildlife conservationists to identify the distribution of species. For some species, such as tigers, pugmark tracking is now considered to be an unreliable method of determining an area's total animal population, leading to the rise in the use of alternative techniques to count populations, such as photographic ca