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At the City Nature Challenge: Tracks, scat, and fur, Oh My event, we learned about many different animals. These animals were on the smaller side, like raccoons, different bird species, and even a deer. We also learned about the different ways that species of animals nest and eat. Some animals even try to put holes in the tree to find bugs. We even got to see a Black rat snake in its habitat.

This relates back to what we learned in APES because we learned about the food chains, food pyramids, and energy transfer that happens with the eating cycle of the animals that we learned about at this event. In APES we learned about trophic levels, and how energy transferred in the food chain is lower, through every trophic level that it goes through. This knowledge helped me understand the creatures and animals that we were talking about at the event, and it matched up with their feeding patterns and habits.