Do bears shit in the woods?

An expressive idiom. And the way to tell grizzly bear shit from black bear shit is that grizzly bear shit has bells in it and smells like pepper spray! This sample is definitely black bear—no bells. Let’s just not talk about bokeh here, ok?

The finer points of photographic “composition” (not actual life size)

Well, this image ain’t gonna sell as fine-art, but heck I maintain an objective eye wherever I go! At least I think it’s bear shit, it ain’t dog, it ain’t feline and it ain’t deer. Then again, I’m not into the finer points of scatology. This fine nugget was the last but not least in a four-foot long “trail” and from a purely scientific standpoint, I believe, as with humans, a juvenile was responsible.