We speed-hiked through the woods, determined to make it to the high-mountain lake before lunchtime. On that spring morning in Montana’s Swan Valley, nothing sounded better than an afternoon of fishing ...

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 ...

Scientists from the Smithsonian have successfully used swift fox droppings to identify individual animals and collect other data vital to monitoring a reintroduced population in Montana. Ellie ...

Even the stealthiest wild animals leave evidence of their passage through the woods and fields, and one of the most telltale calling cards is the humble turd. Call it scat, droppings, sign, or just ...

A University of Alabama biology professor is working to trace the origins of the pollution in Alabama’s river waters. But first she needs a few baggies of wild hog poop. Julie Olson, a professor and ...

Otters may look adorable, but scientists say their poop is a goldmine of information. A new study from the Smithsonian Environmental Research Center in Edgewater, Maryland, found that otter poop, or ...

Here's how to tell whether those pellets on the ground came from a deer. If you live or recreate anywhere in the United States, odds are you’ve walked past (or stepped in) deer poop. Whether you spend ...

Does a bear poop in the woods? It’s one of life’s big questions, right up there with “If a tree falls in the forest?” and “How much wood could a woodchuck chuck?” The answer, of course, is yes, bears ...