Wildlife

Healthy ball python poop is a soft brown log with a chalky white urate cap, passed every two to six weeks. Here is the normal size, color and content, plus the signs that need a vet.

Bees mean work, butterflies mean change, ladybugs mean luck. Here is what each insect is believed to signal, how color changes the reading, and where the belief comes from.

Lizard droppings carry a white chalky cap, frog droppings do not. Sizes, shapes, where each turns up, the rodent look-alikes, and safe cleanup.

The water monitor lizard reaches 5 to 7 ft and 55 lbs, swims like an otter, and is the second heaviest lizard alive. It is not poisonous and it is not a Komodo dragon.

Chinchilla droppings are dry, dark oval pellets 0.25 to 0.5 in long. What healthy poop looks like, how it differs from rat and mouse droppings, and the health risks.

The green sea turtle is the only herbivorous sea turtle and the largest hard shelled one. Size, diet, lifespan, nesting, hawksbill ID and protected status.

Bobcat tracks are round prints 1.7 to 2.5 in long with four toes and no claw marks. How to identify them in snow, mud and sand and separate them from cats and coyotes.

Coyote tracks are oval, about 2.5 in long, and run in a straight line. Here is how to read them in snow, mud and sand, and how to rule out a dog.

What Russian tortoises can eat daily, weekly and never. A frequency chart, the truly toxic plants, and straight answers on cucumber, kale and strawberries.

Coyote symbolism is trickster symbolism: adaptability, humor and the collapse of plans. What each tradition teaches, and what a yard or night sighting means.