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Image: Eurasian badger (Meles meles) - dung.
Badger dung (or droppings, scats etc) can tell us a lot about the animal that produced it. The most obvious thing that we can learn is what the badger has been eating. This badger dropping, deposited in a shallow latrine situated on the edge of a small wood in the Cotswold Hills in Gloucestershire, clearly shows that the badger had been eating cereals (wheat, oats or barley).
Other droppings in the same latrine area consisted largely of cherry stones - there was a fruit farm next to the wood where the latrines were located, and the badgers had obviously been helping themselves to the produce.
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