What can you learn from studying an animal's scat?
Scat can tell us a lot about an animal's diet, habits and movement, so scientists like to study it both in nature and in the lab. Outdoors, scat can identify what animals are present in an area.
Scat can tell us a lot about an animal's diet, habits and movement, so scientists like to study it both in nature and in the lab. Outdoors, scat can identify what animals are present in an area.
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Just curious - wandering the trails and fields around my home, I have recently come across several fine scat specimens. I have posted these on iNat, not as scat but more on their content - skulls, crawfish claws. I am finding scat very interesting because it brings together predator and prey and am thinking about setting up a microscope to study and record my findings. Is there anyway on iNat to flag scat, and, if not, maybe there needs to be.
You can just add it to this project:
https://www.inaturalist.org/projects/scatology
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