gleninAZ has the correct thoughts on elk droppings and how old they are, if you can smoosh them they're fresh! And when you taste them and they taste like sign they're still fresh! <img src=icon_smile_shock.gif border=0 align=middle> But seriously, I've found the opposite is true on the consitencey of the droppings. A cow elk would have the paddy type droppings and a bull would have pellets. From reading the facts from a fish and game biologist it has been stated that because of the wide hips that a cow has from giving birth that her bowl tract is much wider, thus resulting in paddy type droppings. A cow can drop pellet type droppings but the dimples in the pellets will be every which way as the tract is not lined up tightly. On the other had a bull's droppings are in a much tighter tract and line up to the point of dimpling one another on the ends, thus you can distingusih a bulls droppings from a cows.
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