A lot of things will lie to you in your life, but not poop. Close examination of animal scat will help you identify not only the species but how recently the animal was there, its sex, what it ate, ...

Where did those droppings come from? Learn how to distinguish bat guano from mouse droppings by observing these telltale signs.

Feces are a valuable tool in the world of animal identification. It might sound gross, but it’s one of the best ways to determine an animal’s behavior. An animal’s poop, known as scat, tells you where ...

In this nature-loving life I’ve chosen, scatological subjects arise as a matter of course. Take this recent voicemail: “I was walking in the woods by my house,” reported a friend, “when I came upon a ...

After braving cold weather and snowy roads on the morning of Jan. 20, visitors to Lake Metroparks’ Jordan Creek Park got the scoop on animal droppings. Families had the chance to look for the deposits ...

Researchers applied genetic and isotopic analyses to jaguar scat to investigate the habitat needs of the big cats in the Mountain Pine Ridge Forest Preserve of Belize in Central America. The study ...

Climate change is melting away glaciers around the world, but in the Andes Mountains, a wild relative of the llama is helping local ecosystems adapt to these changes by dropping big piles of dung.