Garry Hilton came to teach us about pests. He showed us all his pest traps. He also showed us his hunting ferret, Stella. Stella has teeth as sharp as needles. Stella is good at hunting rabbits and also at climbing trees. Garry puts Stella down a hole (wearing a special radio transmitter collar) and she races through and chases all the rabbits out into nets over the other holes. He has to feed her first so she doesn't eat a rabbit and fall asleep. Otherwise he would have to dig her out!
Garry's record was catching 1200 ferrets in 10 days! Ferrets eat birds and there is no predator to kill mustelids so now the population has exploded. Garry taught us about Rabbit Arithmetic: 1 rabbit + 1 rabbit = 1,000,000 rabbits!!! Wow, that is a lot of rabbits!
We enjoyed Garry Hilton's visit especially patting the ferret. t licked some of us!
ReplyDeleteI really enjoyed Garry Hilton's ferret Stella, it was very fluffy and soft!
ReplyDeleteIt was awesome that we got to see some of his traps and also he explained how they get caught. I liked Rabbit Arithmetic, it's easier than classroom maths!!
ReplyDeletethose furets look cute until they open their mouth and show their fierce teeth! Lucie
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