Sunday, October 30, 2016

weird shit

up on site 7 (which was back in august) i kept finding an animal scat i could not identify.

and by "kept finding", i mean that whatever animal it was would keep returning to deposit one of these very near the center of the site.





so i don't know what animal made it. i have recently become an expert on the scats of the squirrels of the res, and i have more than a passing familiarity with the scats of mice, rabbits, and rats. i'm also pretty good with moose, deer, porcupine, and bear. foxes and bobcats are a little harder, but usually contain hair. and i don't know my weasels very well.

this one, well, it's shaped like batshit, but way too big for it. and it breaks apart to these crumble bits that look like seed hulls but could be insect exoskeletons.

do either of you know?


2 comments:

redtail said...

Could it be toad? They can have surprisingly large scat... https://natureguelphtracking.wordpress.com/reptiles-and-amphibians/american-toad/

flask said...

i had not thought of that. and there was no shortage of frogs and toads.

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