***UPDATE FROM ORIGINAL POST**** I am loving this book and all of the information I am sharing is coming from the book. I will not share anything about the relationship of Wesley and his girl...you'll have to read the book yourself for that part.
Interesting Fact #2:
As I read through this, I couldn't help but picture a Dad and a stay-at-home Mom. Then as it talks abut the babies getting older, it made me think about a Dad giving money to his teenagers...hehehe. Maybe you'll see the humor in it like I did.
In the wild, the father owl hunts relentlessly. He has to provide approximately six mice per baby per night. The usual brood is five babies. The father also has to feed his mate, who never leaves the nest and eats about three mice per day. And he must feed himself about four mice a day. This adds up to some thirty-seven full grown mice every night during nesting season.
A father owl is constantly harassed and henpecked, as the screeching and begging sounds from the nest are never out of his earshot. Wild males hunt like crazy, continually racing back to the nest where unruly babies all mob him at once, demanding food, virtually attacking the beak that feeds them. When the babies are older, the father avoids this confrontation by swooping in, hovering above the nest, and dropping his mouse payload from a safe distance. Then he zooms off to do it again.
Interesting Fact #3:
Unlike human ears, which are in the same place on each side of the head, owls' ears are irregularly placed. One ear is high up on the head and the other is lower, so that the owl can triangulate the location of a sound much more accurately than a human can. The owl brain's large cortex is dedicated to auditory processing in much the way that ours has evolved for visual mapping, so it creates an auditory map of his world. As a result, a barn owl can accurately locate a mouse under three feet of snow by homing in on only the heartbeat, and can hear its footsteps from extremely far away.
Did you read that? He can hear the mouses heartbeat from up in a tree with the mouse under 3 feet of snow. That is crazy.
Prairie Godmother
1 year ago
2 comments:
Wow, thanks for sharing! Is all this in that book of yours? Interesting
LOL!!!! You are something else Becky....you hated owls and are now getting into all of the facts about them. After you finish the book you'll probably have owls everywhere. We can see about finding you a owl decal for the back window of your car...hehehe...Love ya Sister!!!!
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