2. Food from Animals I. What animals are edible?
A. Insects – if numerous and easy to collect
1. avoid bright colored insects…may be toxic
2. Must cook to kill parasites.
3. good source of protein
4. Grasshoppers
a. swat down with branch
b. collect in cool morning when slow
c. remove legs & wings 

3. 4. ants/larvae – large black carpenter ants in rotten wood
a. scoop into water & boil
b. sugary abdomen

4. 5. grubs & maggots – soil/ rotting wood / rotting flesh
6. caterpillars if not furry!

5. B. Unmentionables….earthworms & slugs
1. fry, roast or boil
2. put in stew

6. C. Any fish – cook to kill parasites
1. clean large fish
a. slit open belly, remove guts
b. leave skin on, lots of fat under skin
2. tiny fish can be eaten whole

7. D. Amphibians – skin adults!
1. Eggs – in clear/green jelly
boil & eat jelly & eggs
2. tadpoles
trap in fish trap & eat whole

8. 3. Frogs – be sure of species …some poisonous
a. don’t bother with small frogs, eat legs
b. pickerel frogs = diarrhea
c. bull frogs = yummy
d. spear, jig or trap in pit trap
4. Toads – easy to catch but mild toxin in skin…avoid

9. E. Reptiles – all safe if skinned, cleaned & cooked well
1. Snakes – hunt in morning when sunning
a. venomous snakes – carefully dispose of head
b. venom still toxic after death
2. Lizards – hunt in morning or trap in pit-trap.
3. turtles – trap in underwater trap similar to fish/crab trap

10. F. Birds – any if easy to catch n
big enough to bother
- pluck, clean (don’t skin)
1. geese – trench trap
2. grouse/partridge/pheasant
a. let you walk up close
b. don’t fly far
c. rock, throwing stick, net
3. smaller birds - trap
4. turkey - snare

11. a. leave one or 2 & bird may lay more
5. eggs
a. leave one or 2 & bird may lay more
b. if chick already growing inside bird won’t lay more
c. find nest by observing birds…
6. Swans & geese vigorously defend nest!
a. catch by neck & eat adult for dinner 
7. pluck & clean birds

12. G. Mammals –all edible
1. focus on medium size
a. squirrel
b. rabbit
c. woodchuck
d. raccoon
e. fox
f. muskrat
g. beaver
h. pocupine

13. 2. trap or snare
a. study habits to find where to set trap/snare
b. tracks show where they have been
c. look for trails
d. near food/water/den
3. find animals using ‘splatter vision’
a. unfocus eyes
b. look for movements

14. 4. find animals by listening
a. stop moving
b. cup hands behind ears & turn head to find direction

16. Use the rest of the animal
Brains tan hide
Boil hooves for glue
Sinew for fishing line, thread, snares
Guts for bait
Bones, awls, hooks needles
Stomach = cooking container/fishing float