Camo Butterflys

Well, this was actually a very fun game we played. The idea was that we demonstrate how camouflage helps a prey hide from a predator even when in plain sight. However this predator had lots of experience on the field. He knew where to look. He would look everywhere. Places where you would have to strain your eyes to see. Also, places that had butterfly just sticking out which is just blatantly obvious. Though, there were some very clever places where people had placed there butterflies but, I like mine the best. The hide it in a dark place and put a chair in front technique worked well , especially when the chair that I put in front of the butterfly was the very chair I was sitting in. My idea rules.

Oh Boy! Owl Pellets, That Sounds Fun Right?

Wrong. Today I got to do what most children would die to do... dissecting Owl Pellets. Oh wowie! Sounds fun right? Nope. However, I did find it pretty interesting. For starters, we were dissecting the dried up vomit for bones! Ahh, education at it's finest! But really though my partner and I found 2 skulls of what we believe is-scratch that, was of a mouse, several femurs, a couple of pelvises, can't forget about the tibulas and fibula's, a bunch of little vertebrae, and of course, the ribs. It's actually pretty astounding what you can find in vomit these days... stomach acid, undigested food, the remains of a nameless corpse. But one thing I didn't expect to hear was that those little Owls had quite the appetite. Some would eat 3 rodents (or Birds) a day. I guess that's the equivalent of our 3 meals a day (Four or Five for me!) I am told by our teacher that once we find enough bones we can reconstruct the skeleton of one of the poor rats. Oh well, I guess I'll have some more vomit scavenging to do.