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The Uninvited Guest - Small Mammals in Bryce Canyon National Park
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PRESENTATIONS
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QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS WITH THE SPECIALIST
Our resident specialist Dr. Nicki Frey answers your animal related questions on a weekly basis on our page "Questions from the Community", and selects one to highlight. For more questions and answers, see our "Questions from the Community" page. Have a question? Go ahead and ask it below, we'll answer it within a day or two.
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Can You Help Me Identify This Scat?
Thanks for your inquiry. This most likely raccoon scat. The form of the scat does change with the diet, so sometimes it can appear to be scat of a different species. With such a wet diet of apples, the longer "segments" aren't really present because there is nothing to hold it together and form a segment. Other animals that eat lots of berries and apples are foxes, coyotes and black bear. Foxes and coyotes would have hair present in the feces and a more tapered appearance at the end of each segment. They rarely have a diet that is so entirely vegetarian. Black bear feces are usually about 1.5 inches in diameter. I can't really tell from pictures 2 and 3 what the diameter is, but I think it is about an inch. |
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