I have a question about elk droppings. I saw a strange pattern I haven't seen before. I had elk everywhere this past week. They were talking and running around. I found small quantities of dropping all the way down the trail. It was basically 2 pellets of extremely fresh droppings every hundred yards or so on the trail. I haven't seen this before. I was thinking it was an elk marking a trail for another one to follow, possibly calf droppings, or maybe a couple of pellets fall out when a bull calls. The bulls were making short screaches and what sounded like a bark. Any idea what causes this pattern?