Animal Feces
The feces of animals often have special names. For example:
- Non-human animals generally –
- As bulk material – dung
- Individually – droppings
- Cattle –
- Bulk material – cow dung
- Individual droppings – cow pats, meadow muffins etc.
- Deer (and formerly other quarry animals) – fewmets.
- Wild carnivores – scat.
- Otter – spraint.
- Birds (individual) – droppings (also include urine as white crystals of uric acid).
- Seabirds or bats (large accumulations) – guano.
- Herbivorous insects, such as caterpillars and leaf beetles – frass.
- Earthworms, lugworms etc. – worm castings (feces extruded at ground surface).
- Feces when used as fertilizer (usually mixed with animal bedding and urine) – manure.
- Horses – horse manure, roadapple.
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