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Is this lion giving me the finger?

Haha. Rude!

If it is did you do what it said or go catch it.

Cock your head and look at it and you will see it is the overlap of the back foot stepping in the front track. Capping their tracks is what some of the old timers called it. Looks really funny when you get a big fat pregnant female cuz the track on top is at an angle and it can mess with your perception. Of course a lot of lions have given me the finger and said good bye see ya later to me. LOL!

When I caught her I was sure to reciprocate.

Mr. Leonard I see what you're saying, but this was a female that hung around all winter and I saw her track 5 times, only turned loose on her once as I found out later she had a kitten. Anyway I'm pretty sure she just had a funky toe because her track was easily recognizable with that toe sprung out all the time.

She could have broke it at one time which made it stick out a bit farther then the rest.

I was thinking maybe she double steped like mike said, but was missing a toe on her front foot? or maybe she really was just flipping you off?

I was trailing a big tom a few months back when he walked out onto a jeep trail, that was real dusty. I could see his tracks real clear in the dust. His left hind track had the same kind of toe. I thought he had a broken or deformed toe, and hoped I would catch up to him to find out. Well after a couple more hours of trailing we had him treed. My hunter shot him out. His toe looked like the toes on a hound I had that had been caught in a trap and had two toes on his front foot broke. The toe was extended out about two inches and was real easy to see in his track.