1. Owl Pellet Day 1

2. What is an Owl Pellet?

3. Let’s go Over the Vocabulary
OWL
Draw a Picture
Definition:
a nocturnal bird of prey with large forward-facing eyes surrounded by facial disks, a hooked beak, and typically a loud call
Personal Application:
Name a movie with an Owl

4. Movies with Owls
Owls can be seen in several Disney movies such as Winnie the Pooh, Sword and Stone, legends of the guardians, and Bambi

5. Owl Pellet Definition:
the mass of undigested parts of a bird's food that some bird species occasionally regurgitate
Personal Application:
Although owls cough feathers, hair, and bones of their prey, they still go through the process of digestion and poop similar to other animals.

6. Rodent Personal Association or Characteristic
Definition
Rodent: a gnawing mammal of an order that includes rats, mice, squirrels, hamsters, porcupines, and their relatives, distinguished by strong constantly growing incisors and no canine teeth
Personal Association or Characteristic
Rodents constitute the largest order of mammals

7. Proventriculous: This device stores the pellet before it is disgorged
Word 
proventriculus
Definition
Proventriculous: This device stores the pellet before it is disgorged
Personal Association or Characteristic
 Sometimes the owl will hole the pellet in the proventriculous  20 hours before disgorging it
Since the pellet in this device partially blocks the digestive system the pellet must be expelled before eating again

8. Word Gizzard Definition
 Gizzard
Definition   
Gizzard: an organ that uses digestive fluids and bits of sand and gravel to grind and dissolve all of the usable tissue from the prey
Personal Association or Characteristic
Humans have a stomach and small intestine that does a similar function, but does not regurgitate food. Rather food passes through the rest of the digestive tract.

9. Activity
With the given creature describe the following factors in your learning journals
Predator or Prey
Defense Mechanisms
Adaptations
Draw a picture as a model with labels

10. For Example:
Owl: predator (kills mice, birds, moles, rabbits, skunks, frogs, insects…)
Defense mechanisms: Claws, Sharp, Beak
Adaptions: Neck rotatability, excellent eyesight

11. Creatures Ant Tarantula Red Robin Skunk Deer Wolf Snake Butterfly Fish
Leopard
Choose a creature describe the following factors in your learning journals
Predator or Prey
Defense Mechanisms
Adaptations
Draw a picture as a model with labels

12. Owl Pellet Activity
What’s going to happen tomorrow?

13. Carnivore

14. Herbivore

15. Omnivore

16. This is what happens between prey and predators (or producers and consumers)

17. Create a graph with two organisms showing carrying capacity

18. Questions for thought:
What happens to the prey when the predators increase?/ decrease?
What happens to the predators when the prey increases?/ decreases?
What is the relationship between predator and prey? Do they need each other to survive?

19. Read pg 64-65 in ecology text