 Owl
Puke: The Book, The Pellet, The Bone Sorting Tray, Jane
Hammerslough
Kids love
science—especially when it's hands-on—and kids love yucky stuff.
Owl Puke: Book and Owl Pellet brings the best of those two
worlds together in a unique package.
What is an owl
pellet? It's the football-shaped object regurgitated twice a day by
owls, which contains the skeleton of at least one owl meal, be it a
mouse, vole, shrew, or small bird. Used in elementary schools to
teach the food web—but virtually unavailable at retail—a
professionally collected, heat-sterilized owl pellet is now married
to a lively, two-color illustrated book filled with facts and
related activities about these most amazing birds. And what a story
Owl Puke tells—of the food chain, animal anatomy, life in the
forest; of a bird that could read the bottom line of an eye chart
from one mile away; and of a 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 plastic tray to hold
the bones and a chart to help identify the pellet's contents. It's a
hoot!
0-7611-3186-8 Owl Puke
$13.95
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