Photo compliments of Jennifer Schloth. Note the size of the droppings in comparison to the shovel. Bear droppings can be huge. They can also exhibit a wide variety of colors depending on what the bear is eating.
Be sure to measure diameter of scat as it is useful to distinguish from other droppings.
Droppings tend to be several inches long, full of animal hair (particularly in the winter time when fruit is not available) and dark due to the coagulated animal blood of their prey. Droppings will also be frequently located at strategic locations such as cross roads and along trails as coyotes use their droppings to mark territory.
Frog
Note the tubular aspect of the dropping. Droppings will also frequently have insect parts inside. Droppings this size are from large frogs common in the southern portions of the United States.
Typically will be found each day.
Image courtesy of (L)Steve Rose and (R)Olga Oliver.
droppings tend to be 2-3 inches long (like a dog's) and are often filled with remnants of what they have been eating lately, see photo of scat on grass (lower right; courtesy of Richard Chapman). For example, if they are eating corn, you will often find corn remnants in the droppings. The same occurs when they are eating fruit etc.
Caution!! Raccoon feces may contain a dangerous roundworm. To learn more about Raccoon roundworm click diseases Raccoons also defecate in the same location. These are called toilettes or latrines. The fecal pile, pictured at the right, was found on a residential roof in Longmeadow, MA.
