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Evelyn’s Sunshine

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United States Katılım Kasım 2011
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Anish Moonka
Anish Moonka@anishmoonka·
Great horned owls hunt crows in their sleep. They also raise their own babies inside stolen crow nests. The bird that survives this does something almost no other animal does. It teaches its grandkids what the predator's face looks like. A great horned owl weighs up to 5 pounds. According to Audubon and the Cornell Lab of Ornithology, these owls breed in January and lay their eggs in nests that crows, hawks, or ravens built for themselves. Baby owls hatch right when crows start nesting. Their grip matches a bald eagle's. The talons close hard enough to sever a crow's spine, and it takes 28 pounds of pulling force to pry them back open. Owls hunt at night and crows feed during the day. When their schedules overlap, somebody dies. The crows have a defense system researchers spent two decades documenting. In February 2006, a team at the University of Washington led by John Marzluff started wearing rubber caveman masks while catching and tagging wild crows. The crows took notes. They figured out that the caveman face meant getting grabbed, and they started screaming at it on sight. Nearly twenty years later, anyone who walks across that campus in the same mask still gets dive-bombed and yelled at, even though most of the original crows are long dead. That grudge has now outlived the crows who first learned it. Baby crows who only watched their parents react to the mask started scolding it on their own, even though they'd never been grabbed themselves. The information lives in the flock itself, passed down like a family story. All this screaming and dive-bombing has a real payoff. A 1998 study on Australian Powerful Owls (a great horned owl cousin) found that owls ate bird species that didn't gang up on them nearly nine times more often than species that did. When crows gang up on an owl, they're broadcasting its location to every bird in earshot. Young crows in the flock pick up the threat by watching, and the next time they see that owl's face, they'll start the alarm themselves. A single sleeping owl spotted at noon can pull in dozens of crows within minutes. They'll harass it for hours until it gives up and flies off. So the real story behind "mortal enemies" is that this is a 24-hour war over each other's babies. Only the crow remembers what the other side looks like.
Massimo@Rainmaker1973

Fun fact. Crows and owls are mortal enemies in nature. Owls hunt crows at night, and crows gang up on owls during the day — they never trust each other for a second.

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@JayZ0verrat3d They ain’t see what happened to Detail
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A bird gets crowned by a perfect raindrop in the rain — pure magic captured in one flawless moment! Shot by Lee Schofer
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Why do chameloens do this?
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MY MOTHER WAS MY FAVORITE MAGICIAN… SHE MADE SHIT APPEAR OUTTA NOTHING 🤞🏽
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@ReddCinema What more can I say ?
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