Owl Pellets

The owl pellet experiment was really cool and surprising. An owl pellet is what the owl regurgitates. The owls stomach acid cleans of all of the flesh off of the bones. Then the owl regurgitates all of the bones in a sort of hairball. In class we had to disect the owl pellet and reconstruct whatever organism the owl ate. I had a mouse, we could tell by the orange teeth and the small head. We reconstructed the mouse and glued all of the bones on a piece of whit paper. This class experiment was very interesting and educational.