Wednesday, October 01, 2008

Owl Pellet Investigation

Now that you have completed the investigation on owl pellets you should be able to answer the question. Please respond as a group and put your group number and period number as your signature. For example: group5period1

How does the owl act as a limiting factor for the population of voles or field mice?

45 comments:

Anonymous said...

owls act of a huge part of voles because without owls our schools and stuff would be covered in mice probably with diseases.

Anonymous said...

owl act as limiting factor for voles cause the owl eat the voles n it is
making the population lower.

Anonymous said...

If we did not have that many owls then there will be to many mice because owls eat mice

Anonymous said...

Owls make sure that their is a certain amount of voles and mice by eating them.

Anonymous said...

Owls act as a limiting factors because without owls the population of voles,mice,and other rodents will be over 180 of a birth rate every year per rodent.

Anonymous said...

owls is a big part of voles because without owls mice will be every were like in your house eating every thing it can.

Anonymous said...

owl act limting factor for voles cause the owl eats the voles and lows the vole popilation.

Anonymous said...

We think that the owl is affected by it's factor of eating a mice or a vole by eating it eat and then spiting it up into a owl pellet.

Anonymous said...

Barn owls are very important to the field population because without barn owls the mouse population would rise very high.

Anonymous said...

with out the act of owls all of our houses , bodies and schools could be covered in diseases.

Anonymous said...

owls act as a limiting factor for mice because mice can have 180 babies
in their life so owls are go to lower
the population

Anonymous said...

the owl is a limiting factor because its at the top of the food chain and if we didn't have owls mice would be every where.

Anonymous said...

owls are a limiting factor for voles because the voles get eaten by owls at least 18 times a week.

Anonymous said...

The barn owl is very important to the population to the mice and voles because it eats a lot of mice and voles a day like 18 mice and 14 voles.

Anonymous said...

they make the population lower so
the other animals in the ecosystem
have enough food. their is a cylcle
so every animal has enough population to stay from being extinct.

Anonymous said...

Owls act a huge part of voles because if we had no owls then mice would be every where in the school and in the world since a mouse has 60 babies a year.

Anonymous said...

owls act as limiting factor because thee owl eating the vole or field mouse limits the population of the vole

Anonymous said...

the barn owl is limiting the pupulation of vole or the field mouse because it kills the mice which limits the population by lowering it

Anonymous said...

it controls the poplatoin

Anonymous said...

owls act as a limiting factor by keeping down and controling the populations of voles

Anonymous said...

the owls act as a limiting factor for
the population of voles because owls eat the mice and then they throw it up and instead of it being liquid it turns into a ball with bones in it and fur from the mice.

Anonymous said...

It controls the ppulation

Anonymous said...

I learn that owls eat the mouse.

Anonymous said...

owls are a limiting factor of voles because they eat them.That makes their population go down if their death rate is bigger than their birth rate.

Anonymous said...

owls act a big part because mouses sometimes has disease and mouses can
easly get in homes and effect human

Anonymous said...

owls play as an important part because without owls most of our towns and cities would be covered in voles and mice

Anonymous said...

Owls act at as a limiting factor for voles by keeping the population low.

Anonymous said...

Owls act as a limiting factors to field mice and voles by keeping the population very low.

Anonymous said...

owls are important because they limit the mice in our houses and eat everything.

Anonymous said...

i learned that owls eat 1,768 owls an a year

Anonymous said...

owls have interesting diet on voles
by eating them.

Anonymous said...

we found bonezz bonezz bonezz!!! owl act the limit factor 4 vole because the owl ate the vole it made a lower popation.owls act of a huge part of voles because without owls ever building in our towns and citysand homes would probably be fullee with mice

Anonymous said...

owls eat the mice/voles wicth makes the population go down but if there were no owls the population would go up instad of down

Anonymous said...

There is probably less voles do to the owls. Nothing eat owl so there are a lot of owls eating them.

Anonymous said...

owls act as a limiting factor because owls eat about almost 2000 rodents a year,and mice can have 180 babies a week,so as owls eat the rodents the population of rodents will decrease.

Anonymous said...

owl act of a huge part of voles because withoutowls our school would be infeced with diseasea and every body would be sick

Anonymous said...

It eats the voles and there less of them to reproduce.

Anonymous said...

The animal shouldnt come near the owl cause it will die.This experiment was very fun.I wish we could do it again.Have a nice WEEKEND cya.

Anonymous said...

without owls mice would spread diseases. so we need owls to keep the population level.

Anonymous said...

owls act as a limiting factor because they eat the voles and makes the population of field mice go down.

Anonymous said...

owls act as limiting factor for voles cause the owl eats the vole which is making the population be low.

Anonymous said...

the owl eats mostly mice because mice have a bigger popultion than most rodents.Mice produce more babies than most roadents.

Anonymous said...

the owl acts as a limited factor by eating the mice or voles so the population won't get to large.

Anonymous said...

if the owls wouldnt eat the stuff they eat we would have a huge population of mice and rodents.

shaylad said...

owl eat vole so the owls are making the limited population for the voles