Badger Poo!

If you follow the trail of the badger, sooner or later you are going to find Brock's toilet!

Badgers have special toilet areas called latrines or dung pits. Here, they dig small pits in the ground for their droppings. (Droppings are also called dung, or scats.) Unlike cats, they do not cover their droppings.

Badger droppings look rather like dog droppings in size and shape. A closer look may tell you what the badger has been eating! (Don't worry, you don't have to get too close - and badger droppings do not smell much!)

When a badger has eaten a lot of earthworms, its droppings look rather muddy. If it has eaten beetles, you can sometimes see the beetles' shiny wing cases in the dung. If a badger has eaten a lot of grain - like wheat, oats or barley - you can usually see a lot of the chaff or husks in the droppings. And if a badger has been eating cherries or yew berries, the stones show up in the droppings quite clearly.

Anyway, that's enough about badger poo! Let's get back to the trail of the badger!