Owl Pellet Dissection

Last week a few students had the messy job of taking apart the owl pellet that we found at High Park, and trying to identify the critter that the owl had eaten based on the bones. Sadly, there was only one bone big enough to identify in the pellet (a leg and foot with claws), but we all had a chance to look at it and make our best guess at what the animal may have been. We looked at some charts, borrowed from the grade 4s, to help us with this. The kids wanted to have a closer look, so here you go:

Ask your child what safety procedures the scientists followed to make sure that this activity was done safely!