Do you know what an owl pellet is? It is all the undigestible bits that the owl must cast as a pellet via it's mouth. Just think of it like a cat hairball with bones, fur and teeth! When an owl swallows its prey whole, it's body cannot digest everything so their stomach compacts the remnants into a pellet which the owl has to expel through its mouth. Because of the bones, and there's no way it could travel through its intestines because it could perforate them. Owls do go to the bathroom from th

This owl doesn’t give a hoot who’s watching — it’s just taking care of some typical owl business. 🦉 Owls’ main food sources range from small animals like rodents to other birds, snakes and even skunks. They often gobble these creatures up almost whole, and let their digestive systems sort out the tasty soft-tissue morsels from the potentially hazardous (and much less tasty) bones, feathers and fur. This is how owl castings or “pellets” are created. Did you dissect one of these oval chunks of co

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