Bones!
Saturday, January 31, 2026
In January we went to RIM Park where the Eastside Library branch is. It was really really cold and snowy but we were inside for most of it this month!
We learned about bones! We built a skeleton and tried to identify skulls. Fraser taught us about animals that eat different things, and how it changes their skull and body.
Carnivores have sharp pointed teeth for tearing meat, herbivores have more flat teeth for grinding up plants. Rodents have two big teeth on the top and bottom at the front and then a space before their back teeth. Lagomorphs look a lot like rodents but they have two little teeth behind their big front teeth. Mostly rabbits and hares are lagomorphs, they aren’t rodents at all! Omnivores have both sharp and flat teeth because they eat both meat and plants, and their skulls can be tricky to identify.
It’s important to know how to identify bones you might find in the wild so you know what animals have been in your area and what predators you need to watch out for.
My favourite part was building the skeleton! It was really fun to try and figure out how all the bones connected and fit together. And I liked working in a team with my friends to do a bone puzzle.
Fraser was really nice and funny. I’m glad he came to teach us about animals bones and show us his collection. It was so cool!
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Afterwards a smaller group went outside to look for animal tracks in the snow. We found an extensive deer bedding area with lots of places where a deer had made their bed. We also found quite a bit of frozen deer scat.
