PoopGuessr
Animal Field Guide
These short notes explain the animal clues used in PoopGuessr. They are written for the game and are not a substitute for a regional field guide.
BadgerThe badger is a sturdy, nocturnal omnivore of woodland and farmland edges, best known among trackers for a very tidy habit: it buries its droppings in dug latrine pits.
Brown bearThe brown bear is a huge omnivore of forests and mountains, and its droppings are as changeable as its diet — from berry-purple mush in autumn to hair-filled masses when it has been eating meat.
GooseThe goose is a grazing bird of lawns, fields, and shorelines, and where a flock has been feeding it leaves a scatter of firm, green droppings that are hard to miss.
HorseThe horse is a large domestic grazer, and its droppings — the round, fibrous balls sometimes called road apples — are a familiar sight anywhere horses are kept or ridden.
MooseThe moose is the largest deer in the world, and its droppings are correspondingly big — the biggest deer pellets you are likely to find in northern forests.
OtterThe otter is a waterside carnivore, and its droppings — called spraints — are so tightly tied to rivers and coasts that finding them is a classic way to prove otters are present.
RabbitThe rabbit is a small burrowing herbivore, and its droppings — tidy, dry, pea-sized balls — are among the most familiar wildlife signs in grassy places.
Red deerThe red deer is a large grazing and browsing deer of forests, moors, and open glades, sitting neatly between the tiny roe deer and the giant moose in both body and droppings.
Red foxThe red fox is a small, adaptable omnivore that lives close to both wild land and people, and it uses its droppings as scent-marks placed in plain sight.
Roe deerThe roe deer is a small, delicate deer of woodland edges and gardens, and it leaves the smallest, neatest deer pellets you will meet in Europe.
WolfThe wolf is a pack-living carnivore with a huge northern range, and its scat reflects a life of hunting: large, tapered, and crammed with the hair and bone of its prey.
WombatThe wombat is a stocky Australian burrowing herbivore, and it is world-famous for a genuinely strange trick: it produces cube-shaped droppings, the only known animal to do so.