While observing new parts of Centennial Woods, I found these tracks deep into the natural area. It was incredibly tricky trying to identify these tracks, but I came to the conclusion that they could possibly be from a gray fox. What made it most difficult to identify the tracks was that there was no pattern to the tracks, leading me to think that the mammal they belong to was either hunting down on prey, possibly encountering another mammal, or simply enjoying the snow. At first I thought it was a mammal much smaller than a gray fox due to the paw pads being so small, but then did some research and saw that gray foxes also have such tiny paws. I was really thrown off by what appears to be only 3 toes in the tracks, which made my identification process more difficult. I concluded that it was possibly a gray fox when I took into consideration how icy the snow was when I had found the tracks and that these icy conditions could have lead to only 3 toes being visible in the tracks.
At first I thought these tracks belonged to a rabbit, but these tracks would have been much smaller, and would have had a pattern to them. I then thought about how it could have been a fisher, but there would a visible fourth toe to the track.