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Unknown ? Scat
-37.9435, 145.401
Field Notes
Description:
This might look offensive but is really intriguing. Initially thought that someone had lost his shoelace to the dog but it turned out to be a single lump of scat about 60 mm x 35 mm. Most of it looked compacted but might have been of a similar shape to the part visible on top - smooth thin ropey coils. (You can just see the coils in the compacted mass in pic 2).
Attached to the mass was a thin crust of white matter (as seen in reptilian and bird faeces). The coils were smooth with no obvious plant or animal material. Pic 1 shows a partial break in one of the coils revealing its moist homogenous texture.
There were no holes in the ground nearby and no moist earth.
Habitat:
Spotted near the base of a tree by a gravel track. This was in a park near a reservoir and creek.
Notes:
The white bit has me totally baffled but the rest too smooth to be reptilian. I have looked through photos of worm, reptile and land crayfish scats but couldn't find any matches. The closest was on a blog from Arizona, and the author assumes it was reptilian<br>
http://pycnanthemum.net/2014/02/ <br>
Is this scat at all ??
If anyone can help identify this or give me some direction for an ID, I would love to hear from you. Shanna & Nath, Ashley and Lisa - ? reptilian. Thanks.
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