Owl Pellet Dissection

Biology this year.  Owl Pellet dissection it is! The kids and dad gathered pellets from barn owls, from...down at the barn.  I sterilized them in the oven, then the next day...dissection.  If you aren't sure what a pellet is, it is the bones and fur that cannot be digested by the bird, and is spit back up in a pellet.  We are dissecting them to see what the bird ate recently.

 They did smell a bit, but that didn't deter my young scientists. The project is quite interesting. Caiden has the largest bone...the top of a skull. ewww.

 After a night of soaking in a peroxide solution, we dried the bones and they matched them to a chart (I found online) to categorize the bones and determine what animals were eaten.