Tengu: if that might have been a hoard of dried berries, that could have been a killer.
Probably solitary. Hard to get away with that gluttony in a group.
Elderberries and blueberries here. Then the dogs find some to roll in.
That's a bath you don't need to know about = purple washing and XXX stinky like pig.
Maybe some sort of a territorial display = black bears and sometimes the grizz
like to crap along the center line of our backwoods logging roads. After a big rain,
every poo-pile has a long purple tail!