Showing posts with label owls. Show all posts
Showing posts with label owls. Show all posts

September 3, 2010

Owls Are Bulimic (and their barf is the perfect gift!)

You probably learned this in your first outdoor science class: Owls like to eat mice and other other rodents and small animals. And when the owl eats these little critters, it eats the WHOLE critter!

The owl then barfs up the skin, bones, and other tough-to-digest parts of the animal in a nasty little ball called an “owl pellet.” Back when I was a kid, we used to go around collecting and trading owl pellets.

I’ll give you a rat for a gopher snake!

No way, gopher snake owl pellets are totally rare! Give me a rat AND a hedgehog!

That sort of thing. But today’s lazy children can simply go on Amazon and purchase an owl pellet online. 

Well, that's progress. And look, the bag even says “Puke” on it, so you know it’s the real deal!
Awesome owl pellet picture from WiseAcre Gardens.