Knowledge (Scatology)
Check: You can identify the type of creature, what it ate, whether it has an illness, and when it defecated through studying its solid excrement. The table below gives the DCs for various tasks that require Scatology checks. Most of these tasks can be accomplished at once, if you want to accomplish all of them with one action, do not roll separate checks, simply go by the highest DC. Success means all tasks are accomplished together.
Action: A Scatology check requires a standard action that provokes attacks of opportunity.
Retry: Yes, but the original sample is wasted, another sample must be found.
Special: Survival may be used to accomplish these tasks, albeit at a -5 penalty to checks. Survival may not be used to accomplish a Scatology check of DC 20 or higher.
Synergy: If you have 5 or more ranks in Survival, you get a +2 bonus on Scatology checks.