Whose scat is that?
Scat is a word used for animal droppings, feces or poop, specifically for carnivorous wild animal droppings.
Feces for different creatures actually has different names:
- Bats and seabirds: Guano
- Caterpillars and other herbivorous insects: Frass
- Cows: Tath
- Deer: Fewmets
- Otters: Spraints
- Worms: Castings
- Fossilized dung: Coprolite
- Feces used as fertilizer: Manure
We sculpted scat for a new game in the lower level of the Dickinson County Nature Center. Can you match the scat to the predator?
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it was interesting to see what the bear scat looks like and why it has the weird white tubes in it.
this is sooo gross
It’s not even real poop. And scientifically speaking, poop reveals a lot about our health.