Owl Puke Yuck! Did someone say owl puke? email to friend
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Learn about an amazing bird and fierce hunter that swallows its prey headfirst and digests everything but the bones, which it spits back up in a pellet.

Here's how it works, a hungry owl eats a rodent, the owl pukes up the rodent remains in a big, furry pellet, the curious kid dissects the pellet and finds a skeleton inside, the kid reads the book about owl puke and becomes an award-winning biologist. Any questions? Each kit comes with a heat-sterilized owl pellet and cleverly illustrated book filled with facts and related activities about these most amazing birds. Ages 8 and up.

What's included?

• 1 Heat-sterilized owl pellet
• 92-page book
• 1 Sorting tray
• 1 Chart to help identify the bones

How does it work?

Owl puke is the football-shaped object regurgitated twice a day by owls, and it contains the skeleton of at least one owl meal, be it a mouse, vole, shrew, mole or small bird. Learn about an amazing bird and fierce hunter that swallows its prey headfirst and digests everything but the bones, which it spits back up in a pellet. As for the story the pellet tells, kids need only a toothpick to find out. The package includes a tray to hold the bones and a chart to help identify the pellet's contents.