Nature Sunday: All about Scat! – CANCELLED

Scat – What’s that?! — CANCELLED

No, it’s not music. It’s what’s in the kitty litter box and in the green doggie bag. It’s the droppings in your cupboard from mice or rats. It gives you some evidence that there’s a raccoon in your back yard at night. It’s poop!

Come and learn all about scat: how to identify it, who studies it and why, and what it all means. Then quiz yourself on the identification of over 20 types of scat presented in the demonstration. Bears do it, beetles do it, even dinosaurs did it! There’s a lot to learn

Faylla Chapman, a docent at the Botanical Garden, has studied scat for years with her students and the general public. She has collected many specimens and preserved them to be able to educate others on this important, and often humorous, topic