Answers to Owl Pellet Questions

1. From our class data the most frequently consumed prey by the owl is the Vole all together as a class we found out the pellets contained 88 vole's.

3. Hunting 35 insects a 1 gram each is much more expensive than hunting one 35 gram vole. This is because the insects are smaller and the owl has to waste much more energy hunting the 35 insects then that one vole

5. If the shrew population declined it would certainly affect the owl's but not that intensely as if vole declined, because owl eat the vole the most. Owl would still survive if shrew were declined.

Further Inquiry: Our information might not be reliable because we didn't find all the bones we also didn't have all the bones to match the skulls. Next time I would search for the bones more thoroughly.