What animal was this from

[nube]

I had a marten box that had either a squirrel or a marten in it and it got totally eaten. I found this on the skidoo trail 10 feet away. Is this big enough to be a fisher? I don't think it was Marten.

Also I had a marten get mouthed around the head and neck on a set and the back leg partially chewed. What animals will eat marten like this? I was thinking it was a lynx but do they eat marten out of traps often?

[KegRiver]

Most likely Fox.

And no I don't think a Lynx would scavenge the carcass of another predator under any circumstance. They will scavange a Deer carcass, I even have photos of a Lynx doing just that, but I seen nothing to suggest they would eat a animal caught in a trap, most especially another predator.

Fox are another matter. They took too many of my catches.
I can't tell from the scat, I haven't studied that enough to even guess based on scat alone but I can say that this scat could be that of a Fox, or similar sized animal. And yes it could be a Fisher.

The problem with scat is it varies so much from the same animal. Depending on diet and other factors it could be large and long one day and short and thin the next. Or even an hour later.

[Talking moose]

Talking moose agrees with J.T....... Fox.

[moniaw24]

i agree with the Fox

[357xp]

Fisher love destroying marten hanging in traps. No tracks?

We had a Lynx pull down a freshly caught fisher and partially ruin it as well.

[dugh]

Lost a martin this week Snow is too hard for tracks but suspect a fisher is the culprit.

[KegRiver]

Originally Posted by dugh

Lost a martin this week Snow is too hard for tracks but suspect a fisher is the culprit.

Fisher certainly are capable of raiding a trap line and for that matter so are Marten. The scat looks too small to me for it to be Marten, but size is not always a good indicator.

I lean more toward Fox because they make it a habit where the others are more causal opportunists.

[alder]

I found a pile of scat that looks very similar to the op's photo. It was right next to my son's rabbit snare that evidently had a rabbit in it and was taken away by some predator. I figured mink, weasel, or marten - I can't tell the difference based on my newbie knowledge of trapping.