Interesting Owls

Owls are great creatures! They eat small rodents like shrews, mice, and moles. Every day, they spit out an owl pellet. Owl pellets are bones and some fur that can't be digested, so the owl spits them out in a pellet. Lucky for us, we got to dissect them! We chose partners and then began. First, we took the pellet out of the foil. We then weighed the pellet and measured it. Next, we began to dissect the pellet. Carefully, we used toothpicks and our own hands to search the pellets for bones. We then tossed out the fur and began cleaning the bones. Then, we sorted out the bones and glued the skeleton of the animals together. Finally, we compared our disoverys with the class. The average number of animals a group got was two. My group got a mole and a shrew! Owls are very interesting creatures and are great animals!