# Old Turkeytrack — Wild Animals I Have Known character guide

> Old Turkeytrack in Wild Animals I Have Known by Ernest Thompson Seton.

**Role:** supporting

**Also known as:** Old Tom Turkeytrack, Turkeytrack, old Turkeytrack, old Tom, Old Tom, Tom, VI Old Turkeytrack

**First appearance:** 0007-the-springfield-fox

## Snapshot

A wily old fox who reads hunters better than they read him, vanishing into stone and grass while they congratulate themselves on the chase.

## Who they are

Old Turkeytrack is the fox who watches the narrator from behind, grinning on his haunches after a trick has failed, and who curls up among gray boulders so perfectly that only the wind on his fur betrays him. He and his wife Vixen make the woods their home and the barnyard their base of supplies, matching human cunning with something older and quieter. His escapes establish the fox family as worthy adversaries and set the stakes for the hunts that follow.

## In the story

### [Raggylug](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/wild_animals_i_have_known_se/chapters/raggylug)

Mentioned indirectly as part of the human threat; not a major role in this chapter.

### [The Pacing Mustang](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/wild_animals_i_have_known_se/chapters/the-pacing-mustang)

Old Turkeytrack attempts to trap the pacing mustang using a mare as bait, but the stallion escapes after being caught.

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