Nature Done Wright

On Monday, I posed the following mystery:

 Last week I found a half-eaten critter on the main path at the CF.

It was not a bird, a mammal, a reptile, a fish, an insect, or an amphibian.

What was it? 

On Tuesday, I posted the above photo of the critter.

John Moran and Julie McCall answered correctly — the critter is a half-eaten crustacean known as a crayfish, crawfish or "crawdaddy," and it is a sign of clean freshwater.

John wrote:

"Crawdaddy."

Julie wrote:

It used to be a crayfish. I found a live one a few years ago during the spring, a morning after heavy rain, near the formerly-L-shaped bridge back in the woods. They have Attitude with a capital A. Well, this one doesn't.

More on crayfish here.

As you no doubt know, it is the official crustacean of Louisiana.

(Thanks, Julie and John!)