Deer Poop vs Bear Poop: 6 Differences You Can See in the Field
Deer leave 20 to 30 small pellets, bears leave one wide mass full of seeds. Size, shape, contents and location, plus the cases that fool people.
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Elk Sounds: 6 Calls, What Each Means and When You Hear Them
The bugle is only one of six elk sounds. Here is what each call means, which animal makes it, and the season and hour you are most likely to hear it.
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Llama Sounds: 8 Calls and What Each One Means
Llamas hum, shriek, orgle, cluck and grumble. Each sound has one meaning, and four of them tell you everything about what a herd is doing.
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Skunk Tracks: 5 Toes, Claw Marks and the Raccoon Mix-Up
Skunk tracks show five toes and claw marks set ahead of the pads. Sizes in inches and centimeters, the gait pattern, and how to read them in snow, mud and sand.
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Wolf Dream Meaning: Attacking, Staring, Black, White or Howling
A wolf in a dream points to instinct, but the situation decides the meaning. What a staring, attacking, black, white or howling wolf has meant across traditions.
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Fisher Sounds: Every Call, and Why the Scream Is Not One
Fishers chuckle, grunt, hiss and growl, and the famous scream almost always belongs to a fox or an owl. Here is each call, when you hear it, and what it gets confused with.
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Bison Tracks: How to Identify Them in Snow, Mud and Sand
Bison leave the roundest big hoofprint in North America, 4.5 to 6 inches long and nearly as wide. Here is how to measure, age and separate them from cattle and elk.
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Shrew Poop vs Mouse Poop: How to Identify Tiny Droppings
Shrew poop is a thin, curved pellet 0.08 to 0.25 in long, full of shiny insect parts and dropped at fixed latrines. Mouse droppings differ in three ways.
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Otter Tracks: 5 Toes, Webbing and the Slide That Proves It
Otter tracks show five toes, faint webbing and small claw dots at 2 to 3.5 in long. Snow, mud and sand each reveal a different part of the picture.
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Porcupine Poop: Size, Shape and 3 Scat Lookalikes
Porcupine poop is a curved, woody pellet 0.4 to 1.2 in long, piled by the hundreds at a den. Here is how to tell it from deer, rabbit and beaver scat.
