Scat, Cyprus (1 Viewer)

[Andy Adcock]

Found several of these around the garden, 3cm excluding taper, seems to be composed of insects and has quite a pungent odour.

Long-eared Hedgehog Hemiechinus auritus?

 

[aeshna5]

I don't think the scats of hedgehog species have that spiral tail on them. I wonder if from a young Fox which will feed on insects as well as just about anything edible? Certainly the pungent smell & the tail to the scat would fit.

 

[Andy Adcock]

I don't think the scats of hedgehog species have that spiral tail on them. I wonder if from a young Fox which will feed on insects as well as just about anything edible? Certainly the pungent smell & the tail to the scat would fit.

I was talking with the taxi driver en-route from the airport when I arrived and on seeing a roadkill, I speculated that it may have been a Fox. This guy was in his sixties and had never seen a Fox in Cyprus.

I found a fresh scat a few days ago and it was really wet.