Ritika

 R i t i k a   Hi Mrs. Konik.

If I was asking Albert Einstein questions I would ask him how he got the answers to some of his questions. Another one I would ask him is what inspired him to ask so many questions. Also what was the most interesting answer to a question he asked. If I were to ask him one more question I would ask him what his goal in life is. I wonder a lot about Mr. Einstein. __Owl Pellets__ Owl pellets are created by when an owl eats some food and it can't __digest__ all of it, so it stored the objects it can't eat in a special stomach. After that, it stays there for about 6 - 8 hours, then it __regurgitates__ it up then a pellet forms. An owl pellet is different from feces because it is stored in a special stomach, it is made of bones and fur, and because it is made of objects an owl can't digest. When I was first exploring an owl pellet I was looking for bones to determine which __organism__ they came from, so I could find out what the owl ate. The __population__ that occurred most often was probably the meadow __vole__, because it is the main prey of an owl. That means an owl's diet means that it is an __apex predator__, it also means that it loves to eat rodents. You don't find just a complete skeleton of one animal when you're __dissecting__ owl pellets, because an owl might eat more than one thing in 8 hours so in the special stomach all of the bones and fur mix together, to make an owl pellet. The prey animal that was found most often was the meadow vole. The meadow vole lives in fields, meadows, and in the winter in underground burrows. The way they overlap is because they're both part of the __ecosystem__, and a really big __community__. They both live in different __habitats__ though. The meadow vole lives in a __biosphere__, so does the barn owl. If the rodent population went down the barn owls population will go down, because the owl eats the rodent the rodent population decreases, so the barn owls will die of starvation or some how make a quick adaptation. I think we should protect barn owls, so they're not one of the unlucky extinct organisms. I also have a few questions, What would happen if we started killing owls for the sport of it? Do some barn owls eat something other than rodents and small birds? How can we try protecting barn owls? Why do they normally live longer in the wild than captivity? Can rodents who carry disease kill barn owls? Why or why not? These are somethings I wonder about barn owls. R i t i ka