A long-running mystery for our tracker group has involved rabbit digestion and pellets. We hear that rabbits employ coprophagy, re-ingesting their scat for a second pass through their digestive system to gain more nutrients out of the tough and fibrous plant materials they eat. Common knowledge from captive rabbits was that the original pellets—the “night droppings,” as they are called—are small, dark, soft, and moist. But the pellets we find in the field are always…