Owl Pellet

5. Once we were done analyzing the bones and organizing them into groups, we cleaned everything up and put our tools back were they belonged and how we originally found them.

In “A Barred Owl” by Richard Wilbur and “The History Teacher” by Billy Collins, adults provide easy explanations for children when confronted with harsh realities. Both works explore the use of white lies to respond to children’s fear and curiosity in an attempt to preserve their innocence. However, the writers employ literary devices that convey these concepts in different ways. While Wilbur presents parents’ well-intentioned untruths as beneficial to a child’s peace of mind, Collins reveals the serious consequences of a teacher’s trivial fabrications.

A Good Day for Cyclists painted by Sarah Tynan, which is a hen harrier carrying a Range Rover as its prey. Jeremy Deller calls this piece English magic. A hen harrier, which is a rare bird species in the UK. While Prince Harry and a friend of his was grouse hunting, someone in the public witnessed a pair of these birds being shot at out of the sky. After investigating the situation, the case was dropped because they could not find the carcasses of the hen harriers (Sayre, 2016). I believe this art piece with the hen harrier carrying a red Range Rover represents the hen harrier getting revenge or retaliation on the Royal family. Because of their status and power, I believe they think they are above the law. The authorities dropped the

Gwen Harwood’s, ‘Father and child’, is a two-part poem that tempers a child’s naivety to her matured, grown up attitude. Barn Owl presents a threshold in which the responder is able to witness the initiation of Gwen’s transition. The transformation is achieved through her didactical quest for wisdom, lead by her childhood naivety and is complimented through ‘nightfall’, where we see her fully maturate state. The importance of familial relationship and parental guidance is explored in father and child, as well as the contrasting views on mortality and death. Barn Owl depicts death as a shocking and violent occurrence while the second poem, nightfall, displays that death can be accepted, describing the cyclical and

There are many unique types of animals in the Blackland Prairie; here are a few examples of animals in the Blackland Prairie. One example of one of these animals is the nine-banded armadillo. The nine-banded armadillo is a large, short and brown armadillo with a long tail and nine lines on its shell (therefore its name). They typically eat grubs, insects, berries, and eggs. This scaly critter lives in most of Texas besides the west, they typically live in woods, brush, grasslands and forests. Another one of the many examples of animals in this diverse ecoregion is the black-tailed prairie dog. These chubby, stubby, brown, and furry balls of cuteness live along the border of Mexico. It lives in dry, flat, sparsely vegetated grasslands. These rodents like to consume things like plants, insects, seeds, and grasses. These items make up most of their diet. They are habitat modifiers just like beavers, they build burrows underground close to each other. These are called towns.

In the upper levels we see a number of fragmented bone which may suggest that they began to eat more from each animal killed. Perhaps animals became scarce therefore they began to explore the taste of bone marrow.

One of the largest rodents is the Sciuridae family is the Woodchuck (Marmota Monax) or more commonly known as the Groundhog. It is a fairly common animal most heavily found in the north and north eastern parts of the United States and across most of Canada (Encyclopedia of Life, 2015). Most Woodchucks choose to live in a habitat of grasslands or along the edge of a forest. They tend to like a cooler climate, but during the heart of winter they will hibernate in burrows that they dig throughout the year. The Woodchuck is a incredibly interesting animal that creates elaborate burrows for homes and one of the true hibernators.

Can you imagine a world without any animals? Would plants overpopulate? How would we survive? Well, scientists estimate that about 150 to 200 species of plants, animals, birds, and fish become extinct every day. They say that species are disappearing at an alarming rate. Long-eared Owls are becoming even more threatened every day and everyday more habitats are lost. We need to help them gain their populations back again.

The tail of these weasels make up about 50% of their total body length. They have small, slim heads with long whiskers, and tiny legs. These types of weasels shed their fur twice a year, which is a response to the changes in daylength. It is known that long-tailed weasels that are populated in the north are white in the winter and brown in the summer, as for the once populated in the south are brown most of the year. In the source “Critter Catalog,” it states that their head and body length ranges from 203 to 266 mm, and their tail length ranges from 76 to 152 mm (Newell, 2002). The weasel has various types of environments that are comfortable and earthly like crop fields to small wooded areas to suburban areas. The weasel’s nests and burrows are built in hollow logs, rock piles, and under barns. Every now and then, weasels use rodent burrows instead of making new

Arctic fox is small animal that can reach 26 inches in length and 6.5 to 17 pounds of weight. Bushy tail is usually 13.7 inches long.

The Brown-throated Three-toed Sloth is approximately the size of a house cat, ranging from 45-60cm. Like all sloths it has long limbs and a small head for the size of its body. Sloths’ fur hangs ‘backwards’ compared to other mammals, lying from the stomach to their back. This enables the water to run off while it is in a tree. Sloths do not have visible toes but instead have long claws. In this species they have three claws on each foot, which enable them to hang from the branches of trees (2). The brown-throated Tree-toed Sloth can also be distinguished from other species by its brown fur and upturned mouth, giving the sloth a constant ‘smile’.

Just about anyone who has heard about the plight of endangered species has heard of the spotted owls, as they became one of the poster animals for it back in the 1990s when these birds were put on the threatened species list during the adventure of the Timber Wars of the Northwest. The loggers wanted to cut down trees where the spotted owls lived, and they couldn’t due to the owls living in them.

The first step will be to dissect preserved specimens of both, barking and non-barking geckos, and to select representative samples of tissue from the laryngeal and the tracheal area. The non-barking geckos will serve as a control. This tissue must be processed by standard protocols, either by manual or automated techniques (processing in histology commonly refers to the removal of water or dehydration by placing the tissue in gradually increasing concentrations of alcohol, and then xylene, to finally infiltrating the tissue with paraffin or plastic). After processing the tissue will be embedded in paraffin block, and cut into micrometric sections and placed in positively charged glass slides.

The musk ox do live in small herds which prevent them from getting surrounded by their predators. They are known for being very large animals. They feed on grass, leaves, lichens, mosses, and willow trees. The musk ox can weigh as much as 360 kilograms or 793.664 pounds. The musk ox is incredibly dangerous if you start to annoy it.

When Mr Fox needs to feed his family, he usually just raids the storehouses of one of his vile neighbors, Boggis, Bunce, and Bean. All three were farmers, and all were particularly nasty and mean people. But when Boggis, Bunce and Bean finally get fed up with Mr Fox stealing their chickens, ducks, geese, and turkeys, they decide that Mr Fox, and anyone who happens to be in the way, must be destroyed. But no matter what they do, how much they obsess, or how much damage they do, that clever Mr Fox seems to be able to stay one step ahead.