As you might imagine, emu poo is pretty big. Fox scat looks more like cat poo than dog poo. Smaller birds like currawongs and magpies may also produce these pellets. They can include things like fur, hair and bones from small mammals and reptiles, wings and exoskeletons from beetles and other insects, and seeds.
The size of the pellet depends on the size of the bird. A pellet coughed up by a magpie. This story is about whose poo you might find in South Australia's national parks. If you come across any mysterious scat in your own backyard, you can do a Google search to find out who it might belong to.
For more insights into the creatures that call South Australia home, check out our library of Animal Encounters stories. They are usually yellowy-brown or green in colour, and full of grass. Hare droppings on the right tend to be slightly bigger and flatter than rabbit droppings left hand side. Foxes produce dog-like droppings that are usually pointy at one end and full of fur, feathers, tiny bones, seeds and berries. In rural areas, fox poo is quite dark, but in urban areas, where foxes eat human food waste, it can be lighter.
Badger droppings have a sweet, musky smell. Because deer ruminate regurgitate and chew their food twice before digesting it , there are no obvious contents in their droppings. They produce smooth, shiny, dark pellets that are pointy at one end and often stuck together in clusters. Both these mammals are found in similar wetland habitats. Otter spraints are usually dark greenish, slimy and full of fish bones, scales and crayfish parts. Fresh otter poo smells like jasmine tea, while mink poo has a much less pleasant odour.
Though they inhabit similar wetland habitats, the droppings of water voles and rats have several key differences. Water vole droppings are smaller than rat droppings and are rounded at both ends; rat droppings are flattened at one end and pointy at the other.
Water vole droppings are green, brown or purple, have a putty-like texture and no strong smell. Rat droppings are light brown to black, slimy and soft, and smell unpleasantly like wee.
Mice produce very similar droppings to rats, but they are much smaller. Bats leave droppings where they roost, so they can often be found stuck to walls or on the ground under holes or trees.
They have a rough appearance and are filled with chewed-up bits of insect. Hedgehog droppings are about 5 cm long, cylindrical and generally quite dark. They might be filled with bits of insects and worms. Here are some common British mammal droppings you might come across, as well as some tips of what to look or smell! You can click on the images to view them in more detail. Droppings are left in clusters of little, round, hard balls.
They are usually yellowy-brown or green in colour, and full of grass. Hare droppings on the right tend to be slightly bigger and flatter than rabbit droppings left hand side. Foxes produce dog-like droppings that are usually pointy and twisted at one end and full of fur, feathers, tiny bones, seeds and berries.
In rural areas, fox poo is quite dark, but in urban areas, where foxes eat human food waste, it can be lighter. Badger droppings have a sweet, musky smell. Hedgehog droppings are about 5cm long, cylindrical, usually tapered at one end and generally quite dark. They might be filled with bits of insects and worms. They can also appear slimy if they've been eating slugs and snails.
Because deer ruminate regurgitate and chew their food twice before digesting it , there are no obvious contents in their droppings. They produce smooth, shiny, dark pellets that are pointy at one end and often stuck together in clusters. Similar in size and appearance to large raisins. Both are found in similar wetland habitats.
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