Wednesday, January 11, 2006

Why I'm not a science teacher

T scored in his comment on the last post - it turns out owl pellets are actually regurgitated masses of mousy bits, not pooped-out ones, as I misinformed Nikki last night. Found a gnarly cool Flash movie that illustrates this. The movie is so crudely done as to almost be a parody, but I got it from a legit kids educational site. Check it out.

2 Comments:

At 7:59 PM, Blogger Tenax said...

Bro,

I do live in the woods; you learn wierd things in the woods. When I moved up, even with my hiking background, I couldn't tell a cedar from a pine from a fir.

Now I can tell you how each one smells when I'm splitting it.

Lots of trees and tree-dwellers up here.

Peace and love,

t

 
At 2:09 PM, Blogger Sheila said...

That Virtual Owl Pellet activity was quite fun. Thanks for sharing the link :) Julia is right - we have owls. The original nest was destroyed, but they are back. I hear them about every other night.

 

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