Big Bend National Park: Poop and Circumstance

You gotcher bear poop and you gotcher fox poop.

First, some fox poop.

Two foxes' leavings, from a distance:

Fox poop, Chisos Trailheads, Big Bend National Park, Texas. September 2017.

According to one of the naturalists, foxes like to one-poop-up each other, so it isn't uncommon to see the leavings of more than one fox in the same place. In the above photo, two foxes dined on different kinds of seeds before relieving themselves.

Below is the same fox poops next to my car key, for scale:

Fox poop, Chisos Trailheads, Big Bend National Park, Texas. September 2017.

The provenance for the above fox poops is the Chisos Trailheads up by the Chisos Visitor Center.

Now for some bear poop, the provenance of which is The Window trail, approaching from the Chisos Basin Campground.  We'll travel from far to close up:

Fox poop, Chisos Trailheads, Big Bend National Park, Texas. September 2017.

Bear poop, Chisos Trailheads, Big Bend National Park, Texas. September 2017.

Bear poop, Chisos Trailheads, Big Bend National Park, Texas. September 2017.

Sadly, I didn't think to place my key next to this proud produce, but trust that it was bigger than the fox poop.