The footprint discovered in Ondes, in Haute-Garonne, 30 km north of Toulouse.

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  • Traveling bear, exceptional badger, horseshoe-less horse… There are many hypotheses to identify the animal owner of large footprints photographed on the banks of the Garonne.

  • They were discovered in Ondes, 30 km north of Toulouse, by volunteers from an association that cleans the banks.

  • Its president launched an appeal on Facebook to unravel the mystery.

A schoolboy internet user would like to see it as a sign that Chewbacca is walking around Toulouse.

The dahu maybe?

But, without laughing, very smart for the moment the one who could say with certainty to whom this big clawed paw belongs.

“When we saw the footprints, we really got stuck on them,” says Florence Ducroquetz, president of the Champ d'Actions association which cleans the banks of the Garonne every Sunday.

Last Wednesday, she was on a scouting mission with two other volunteers in Ondes, 30 km north of Toulouse, when they came across this great mystery, these clear footprints in the wet sand.

Many members of the association are inclined to be a bear.

"It's true that a bear's footprint has already been spotted 30 km from Toulouse, but in the south, there we are in the north", slips Florence Ducroquetz, who has fun imagining a bear crossing the Pink City at night. taking advantage of the calm of the curfew.

For her part, she immediately thought of "a huge dog".

Then she went home, did some research, and the hypothesis collapsed.

Horse or hoax?

Hence the call on Facebook to identify the large animal.

The badger would stick to the design left in the ground, but not the size of the print, the size of a hand.

The volunteer consulted the Nature en Occitanie association.

"For them, it is possible that it is a horse shoe without a shoe."

But the president, accustomed with Champ d'Actions to crossing tracks "of horses, deer, birds of all kinds", is not at all convinced.

Unless it was a hoax.

“There were several prints but we didn't know that we had to photograph them together to measure the distance,” admits Florence Ducroquetz.

Sunday, the association operates in Gagnac, not far from Ondes.

The volunteers will be attentive to possible new manifestations of the big beast.

Until then, the investigation continues.

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