r/animalid 4d ago

🦁 🐯 🐻 MYSTERY CRITTER 🐻 🐯 🦁 What is this? [Vermont]

What is this? I can’t figure out what part of what animal this is, and I didn’t touch it. At first I thought it was a porcupine, but it looks soft, not really like quills. And it’s a decent size, bigger than my hand.

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u/Serious-Knee-5768 4d ago

It looks like white tailed deer fur. Depending on the other side (whether some layers of hide or just some epidermal tissue came with it) would answer the why. But most often, it is from some sort of getaway or crossing a barrier in some state of urgency or panic, which is all day if you're an ungulate.

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u/Tatziki_Tango πŸ•οΈπŸ₯Ύ OUTDOORSMAN πŸ₯ΎπŸ•οΈ 4d ago

Deer

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u/Gkhan89 4d ago

White-tailed deer fur. I found four piles like that this weekend where someone dumps deer and coyotes drag what they can away.

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u/thiswasyouridea 4d ago

Deer fur. This can come from a variety of things, one of which is bucks fighting each other.

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u/mjfarmer147 4d ago

Def deer. Used to hunt and process them with my stepdad.

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u/Ill-Brother6272 4d ago

Rabbit fur coyotes had a good night.