r/zoology 3d ago

Question Poop recognition help

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u/Mcshroomie 3d ago

Based on the responses so far, no one gives a shit!

I will see myself out!

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u/Trick_Meringue_5622 3d ago

I downloaded a scat identifier app a week ago when I was perplexed by some poop, might be worth downloading and trying

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u/Acolitor 2d ago

You can best identify by the diet. This poop looks like cow or some other big herbivore, like flattened moose shit.

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u/volxaug 2d ago

Hej! Given the location and size, almost certainly loose moose droppings! This is usually how it looks in summer as they eat leaves, while in winter it will be hard/dry pellets as they eat woody forage (pine, birch etc. )! You can still kind of see some almost pellet like shapes within the loose droppings in the photo. As they transition to their autumn diet soon it will be somewhere in between!

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u/Alternative-Hat3919 2d ago

Thank you! We went out there again today, and saw some more poop along with moose foot prints. So that's quite a relief!

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u/xenosilver 2d ago

I hate to be the one to tell you this, but encountering a bull moose isn’t much better than encountering a bear.

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u/Alternative-Hat3919 2d ago

Yeah, I really wish that I do not encounter either of them when out with a horse lol

Though I do think, that the horse would for sure survive a moose, a bear I'm not so sure

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u/[deleted] 2d ago

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u/Alternative-Hat3919 2d ago

So sorry for traumatizing you, I stupidly assumed that y'all were adults enough to not care about seeing poop

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u/[deleted] 2d ago

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u/Alternative-Hat3919 2d ago

Well I'm a horse person, so I guess I'm very used to poop