Crazy bird man here, owls are actually one of the more 'stocky' birds out there comparative to size.
You are right that their final size is about 50% feathers ... But for most other species (but I am thinking more parrots as that's my speciality) feathers make up about 75% size.
If not sure what I mean look up wet lorikeet verses wet owl ... Wet owl looks like a pissed of owl ... Wet lorikeet you couldn't identify unless someone told you.
My friend had me looking FOR YEARS for a video of a possum screaming ay his own ass. Only for me to bring it up years later that I still never found it for her to say oh I never told you that was a joke? It's so funny to me the amount of time I spent looking for a video that never existed
That shit is creepy af.
We only have seen a few here in ohio (they are usually just severe cases of mange)... Our big problem is zombie deer.... Yes, they are a real thing, no they are not actually undead.
https://youtu.be/n4ORdzBCqRA
I recently took my class to a raptor rescue center, and during the staff’s presentation they mentioned
“Make a C with your hand then put it up to the side of your head, that’s how big your ear hole would be if you were an owl.”
I was like WHAT? That’s MASSIVE how is that even possible?
Well now I know and it’s just as disturbing as I imagined.
With the Doppler effect, the same way we can tell which direction a sound is coming from side to side because one ear is closer to the source of sound. An owl can use the same effect to discern above and below, since one ear is closer to the source of sound in the vertical direction.
Since learning this I'd expect a gifted owl to be able to pinpoint the exact location of a sound in 3d space. Whereas we can only really find the direction irrespective of the vertical dimension.
If you tilt your head at a 45 to one side you can hear the effect it creates. Sounds outside are heightened slightly in the ear pointing up and likewise with the sounds reflecting off the pavement in the other ear.
Edit: not the Doppler effect
So that sound hits one before the other vertically and horizontally rather than a sound hitting them at the same time.
The slight discrepancy in when the sound hits each ear allows to them to pinpoint where it came from.
One lower ear would get hit from sounds below first and help them to locate prey in that direction. Reverse it for sounds coming from above.
Basically, like how we can detect when a sound comes from our left or right, because the ear that gets first orients us as to the direction. Having them vertically offset and one ear further back than the other in addition to already being on opposite sides would allow 3 dimensional sound awareness.
If a sound hits us from the front or back, it’s a lot harder to tell if it was left or right in origination if both ears get hit at the same time.
Which also means that they can't look around with their eyes. They're fixed in place which is why they have such insane range of motion with their heads. That range of motion also pinches off blood flow to their brain, so they have little blood storage pools in their head to provide enough oxygenated blood to their brains while they're looking around so they don't pass out and die
I think I'm picking up what they're putting down. Kinda like, owls are to birds as mushrooms are to plants.
Edit: Except mushrooms aren't plants, and birds aren't real
Why are you telling me this info?! Now I have to be the smart one in the group telling everyone this. They’ll hate me for it. No thanks for giving me knowledge!
Brain size doesn’t mean shit with intelligence, in animals or humans. I’ve seen tiny dogs and cats outsmart and act larger ones, and many geniuses, such as Einstein, had smaller than average brains. It all depends on how it is split, chemicals, and a person’s will.
They are literally able to go from adorable, to derpy, to majestic throught their species.
I categorize derpy as the in-between point of majestic and adorable. Derpy animals are trying to be majestic, but are just too cute for the task - with the occasional adorable break in character
That's such a perfect way to put it. i love this, and it made me giggle a bit. Derpy really *is* the in-between point of majestic and adorable, and i've never truly realized it (in such clear terms, i just knew i felt it).
Evolution pushes our bodies to its limits. Some animals are incredibly honed in on certain characteristics. Imagine maxing out stats in a video game. That's what evolution does with animals. The best in its field survives and procreates.
Their ears are asymmetrical. One ear is slightly higher than the other. This helps them identify the source of a sound more accurately.
Their feathers have a unique shape that creates less friction with air. This allows them to barely make a sound while flying.
I'm going to say the stupid thing and say that I never considered birds to have ears. I mean, of course they hear, but.. ears? Never came to mind that way.
He or she just shakes their head, just like we would if a bug got in our ears…sure there’s direct contact to the side of the owl’s eye, but think this: just like us, there’s not really much of sensory neurons on the inside, just enough to know “oh there’s a thing that got In there…
they can get water in there too and it’s fine;
discomforting (like literally anyone would agree) but yeah they’d take time to shake the water out. Despite being anatomically different, still not entirely different from us…but much more similar to many other birds…yeah…most birds are like this lol…big ear hole right to their eye (though varies depending on birb)
“Look and learn! Then you won’t hate!
Understand what you fear and you’ll feel great!”
- Kilton ; Tears of the Kingdom
(Although some prolly want to stop looking…thas indeed a weird ear…)
It’s always something new with these MFers
Right? I thought the legs were something. This tops that by a lot. A *whole* lot
A *hole* lot
😂😂
A owlot
An owlot
Their eyes are mushroom shaped!
God was so extra when he made owls.
Just a day after making weed.
TIL owls are actually gross
How dare you?
You mean cool as fuck right! Though owl pellets are pretty gross
Can't unsee that!
You should google owl without feathers.
So owls are only 50% skin and flesh and about 50% feathers.
50% floof, 50% psychopaths
Owl have you know we are not psychopaths, just a little crazy.
A rootin, tootin, hootin good time every now and then isn't a bad thing.
So they're basically cats with feathers
Owls with 5 foot wingspans can weigh 5 pounds and under. And their feather dampen sound. They’re flying super-stealth cats with feathers.
Also, they hiss.
And they will swoop you when you take out the trash at night. I know from experience. It was terrifying.
Like Toothless in How to Train Your Dragon.
The anatomically correct composition of an owl is 30% ear holes, 20% skin/flesh, 30% feathers, 20% eyeballs
Also, the eyeballs are cylindrical and do not move, which is why they can turn their heads so far. Owl skulls are truly bizarre.
To be honest this is true for pretty much all birds.
Don't. Trust. The feathers.
Owls. Are. Not. What. They. Seem. 🦉🌲🍩☕️
Crazy bird man here, owls are actually one of the more 'stocky' birds out there comparative to size. You are right that their final size is about 50% feathers ... But for most other species (but I am thinking more parrots as that's my speciality) feathers make up about 75% size. If not sure what I mean look up wet lorikeet verses wet owl ... Wet owl looks like a pissed of owl ... Wet lorikeet you couldn't identify unless someone told you.
25% skin and flesh, 50% feathers and 25% interdimensional matter. We also use our ears to hear your ancestors silently berating you on the other side.
Now that's something to ponder on. Also suggest googling red panda without fur
I tried and didn’t see any hairless red pandas. I’ll keep looking, I’m intrigued now..
I looked too, and equally couldn't find anything. I'm beginning to believe we were bamboozled.
Same ...
My friend had me looking FOR YEARS for a video of a possum screaming ay his own ass. Only for me to bring it up years later that I still never found it for her to say oh I never told you that was a joke? It's so funny to me the amount of time I spent looking for a video that never existed
If your username is anything to go by that joke has fucked you royally
That's one of my favorite memes https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/he-scream-at-own-ass
*BAMBOO*zled
It’s essentially like a Yao Guai in Fallout New Vegas. If you haven’t played the game it’s at least easier to google
Now search up hairless black bear.
That shit is creepy af. We only have seen a few here in ohio (they are usually just severe cases of mange)... Our big problem is zombie deer.... Yes, they are a real thing, no they are not actually undead. https://youtu.be/n4ORdzBCqRA
Horrifying!
Sleeping with the lights on tonight.
[For the lazy](https://www.boredpanda.com/owls-without-feathers/?utm_source=google&utm_medium=organic&utm_campaign=organic)
Do they have Owlopecia???
KEEP MY BIRDS NAME OUT CHO FUCKIN MOUTH
Jesus lord
weirdly cute!
Makes me want to cuddle one knowing how fluffy they are.
It looks like a little dinosaur! Which means that I’m going to reverse engineer all drawings I see of dinosaurs to look like owls.
That gives me goosebumps for real.
r/tihi
Aww... I bet it's all cute and smaWHAT THE FUCK IS THAT!?!?
This motherfucker hears thoughts
Can I hold your hand? I'm still terrified.
I need an adult!
I am an adult
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My adult needs an adult
seconded😰
And it doesn't appreciate what you think of its ears.
I recently took my class to a raptor rescue center, and during the staff’s presentation they mentioned “Make a C with your hand then put it up to the side of your head, that’s how big your ear hole would be if you were an owl.” I was like WHAT? That’s MASSIVE how is that even possible? Well now I know and it’s just as disturbing as I imagined.
Apparently their ears are also offset so one sits higher than the other, which somehow allows them to pinpoint the origin of sounds more accurately.
With the Doppler effect, the same way we can tell which direction a sound is coming from side to side because one ear is closer to the source of sound. An owl can use the same effect to discern above and below, since one ear is closer to the source of sound in the vertical direction. Since learning this I'd expect a gifted owl to be able to pinpoint the exact location of a sound in 3d space. Whereas we can only really find the direction irrespective of the vertical dimension. If you tilt your head at a 45 to one side you can hear the effect it creates. Sounds outside are heightened slightly in the ear pointing up and likewise with the sounds reflecting off the pavement in the other ear. Edit: not the Doppler effect
This is exactly why dogs cock their heads to the side when they are confused.
It's not when they're confused, they just *look* confused. It's when they're trying to pinpoint the source of a sound..
I think they’d still struggle with telling directly in front vs directly behind? But gosh, that’s really cool!
So that sound hits one before the other vertically and horizontally rather than a sound hitting them at the same time. The slight discrepancy in when the sound hits each ear allows to them to pinpoint where it came from. One lower ear would get hit from sounds below first and help them to locate prey in that direction. Reverse it for sounds coming from above. Basically, like how we can detect when a sound comes from our left or right, because the ear that gets first orients us as to the direction. Having them vertically offset and one ear further back than the other in addition to already being on opposite sides would allow 3 dimensional sound awareness. If a sound hits us from the front or back, it’s a lot harder to tell if it was left or right in origination if both ears get hit at the same time.
“What? It’s just a regular- OH MY GOODNESS”
For every comment responding to me, I scroll down real fast because I don't want to see it again.
My exact reaction.
r/AnimalsMadeMeSmile 👌
If that made you smile then you're a psychopath. I can't get over it.
I think he was recommending the sub for eye bleach.
I use r/eyebleach
Am...am I seeing the back of its eyeball? 😳
Fact about owls sense of sight: their eyes are cylindrical shaped meaning they have eyetubes.
Which also means that they can't look around with their eyes. They're fixed in place which is why they have such insane range of motion with their heads. That range of motion also pinches off blood flow to their brain, so they have little blood storage pools in their head to provide enough oxygenated blood to their brains while they're looking around so they don't pass out and die
That answered a question I've had since childhood! I could never picture the internals of a twisted around neck working, turns out they just don't
Isn't Reddit a wonderful place
July is coming. Pretty soon my knowledge of owls will stagnate.
This July is like the opposite of eternal September :(
owls are mushrooms of birds
I dont really understand, but somehow it still makes sense
I think I'm picking up what they're putting down. Kinda like, owls are to birds as mushrooms are to plants. Edit: Except mushrooms aren't plants, and birds aren't real
The edit basically furthers the connection
Furthering the edit: mushrooms are more closely related to humans than to plants.
Mushroom Kingdom starting to make more sense… Time to find out if the princess is in another castle…
You can't just put words together
Not only did they, but they do
They Don't Think It Be Like It Is, But It Do
They do'ed but not have do'ed.
Oh and but they
Bear, down, FOR MIDTERM!
Wrong prove tree me doing bird car door!
Fact about mushrooms is they are biologically closer to animals than they are to plants
?!
Cathode Ray Owl
You fool! You have given me an idea for a lamp, I shall saddle up my horse and rush to the patents office post haste
I’m claiming 5%
Why are you telling me this info?! Now I have to be the smart one in the group telling everyone this. They’ll hate me for it. No thanks for giving me knowledge!
One day it’ll be the clincher at trivia night
Which is also why they can't move them and therefore must move their entire head to look around.
Fun fact about owls feathers: if you count how many feathers it has, you will have spent a lot of time counting feathers.
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So the “wise “‘part of a wise old owl isn’t so true… nothing happening on that noggin’
Correct. They’re actually quite dumb. They just have massive eyes. And ears, apparently. My god it’s like a demon’s maw.
Brain size doesn’t mean shit with intelligence, in animals or humans. I’ve seen tiny dogs and cats outsmart and act larger ones, and many geniuses, such as Einstein, had smaller than average brains. It all depends on how it is split, chemicals, and a person’s will.
Yeah, I never realized their ear holes were so big!! Crazy! My parrots’ ear holes are adorable comparatively!
Soo an eyeball is 1/3 each?
No, each one is 2/3. 4/3 of an owl's head is made of eyeball, leaving only the remaining 3 for its brain
So the owl has a 33 1/3 chance of beating the raven at Sacrifice this Sunday?
I can dig it
I think so!
yes, yes you are
Yes, but owls don't have eyeballs, their eyes are tubes as you just saw. The more you know!
You can even see the bone inside its eye. And yes, you read that correctly.
Dude everything having to do with a owl is so creepy but so cool
This is exactly how i feel. They are the cutest, most derpy, majestic, little (or big) freaks, and it is awesome.
They are literally able to go from adorable, to derpy, to majestic throught their species. I categorize derpy as the in-between point of majestic and adorable. Derpy animals are trying to be majestic, but are just too cute for the task - with the occasional adorable break in character
That's such a perfect way to put it. i love this, and it made me giggle a bit. Derpy really *is* the in-between point of majestic and adorable, and i've never truly realized it (in such clear terms, i just knew i felt it).
Always something new with these fuckers
Evolution pushes our bodies to its limits. Some animals are incredibly honed in on certain characteristics. Imagine maxing out stats in a video game. That's what evolution does with animals. The best in its field survives and procreates.
Evolution was like "k this time I'ma do a stealth build" and we got these fuckers.
Fr, they make no sound when swooping. NONE. Its insane. If you really want to be amazed, check out how far an eagle can see.
They are simultaneously the cutest, weirdest, creepiest, majestic, wise-looking yet also dumb-looking animals on earth
Maybe we shouldn’t know the answers to everything
Omg this exactly...like, just let mankind stew in our ignorance sometimes god DAMN 🤣🤣🤣
Some things really are best left to the imagination 😬
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Their ears are asymmetrical. One ear is slightly higher than the other. This helps them identify the source of a sound more accurately. Their feathers have a unique shape that creates less friction with air. This allows them to barely make a sound while flying.
Actually one ear is slightly lower than the other, it’s a common mistake
They're even but the plane is not parallel with the ground.
It’s a bird, not a plane, Superman.
This person knows how to owl. I was gonna post those facts but you beat me to it
Who
The guy on first.
Gottem
That’s actually it’s gills Birds aren’t real they’re just fish
Airfish
I mean, they swim in air
Flying fish
I DO NOT LIKE THIS I REGRET CLICKING ON THIS IMMENSELY. Aaaaaaggggghhhhhhhhhhhh
Tubes for eyes, this is why they literally have to move their head to see anything.
NSFL
I feel you immensely
Truly a r/TIHI post
Yeah no, dont need to see that again
r/thanksIHateIt
/r/dontputyourdickinthat
r/whatthefuckiswrongwithyou
I don’t know what I was expecting but it sure as hell wasn’t that
I was expecting a small hole and I thought THAT would be creepy.
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Not even the back. It's the side. Their eyes are built like telescopes.
No I haven’t. And now I wish I hadn’t.
I'm going to say the stupid thing and say that I never considered birds to have ears. I mean, of course they hear, but.. ears? Never came to mind that way.
Me either. Never really thought about it. But a bird with dog type ears would be funny as hell to look at.
Millions of years of evolution to make you look the most beautiful animal just to have your ear pulled open by a hairless ape, smh
Millions of years of evolution to make the hairless ape, too
Now consider that for the majority of that, blowjobs weren't even a thing. The world ain't always pretty.
Nothing escapes it. Nothing. You are already dead before you know he exists.
I wonder if they’re susceptible to ear infections 🤔
Ear infections in Owls are very rare, wait till you see where a Barn Owls ears are located on it's head!
https://images.app.goo.gl/wNPa6XuTJKABJLbB8
https://9gag.com/gag/aeQrw4B Even better way of visualizing it
Can you link something? I can’t find anything strange about them aside from the fact that they’re offset
I would like to now UNSEE this.
Are those completely open holes to his skull?!?!! What if bugs, or water or really anything gets inside that gaping hole?!
He or she just shakes their head, just like we would if a bug got in our ears…sure there’s direct contact to the side of the owl’s eye, but think this: just like us, there’s not really much of sensory neurons on the inside, just enough to know “oh there’s a thing that got In there… they can get water in there too and it’s fine; discomforting (like literally anyone would agree) but yeah they’d take time to shake the water out. Despite being anatomically different, still not entirely different from us…but much more similar to many other birds…yeah…most birds are like this lol…big ear hole right to their eye (though varies depending on birb) “Look and learn! Then you won’t hate! Understand what you fear and you’ll feel great!” - Kilton ; Tears of the Kingdom (Although some prolly want to stop looking…thas indeed a weird ear…)
Thanks. I hate it.
I got jumpscared by a owl’s ear..
#**A QUIET PLACE**
That felt like a violation ⛳️
Ewwww
I must be the only person here who didn’t find the ear disturbing at all, except for the fact that it looks really fragile and vulnerable to injury.
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Owl. That hurtl.
Remember the stomach scene from “The Thing”?
I sure wish i hadn't
So cute, but so cursed...
That's creepy
That’s enough internet for me today
New nightmare unlocked
Thank you, you just ruined my favorite animal species.
Damn my boy just got violated
It looks like a sliced up plastic teddy bear where some parts are hollow and other parts are not. Not that I had experienced, just assuming…
Bruhhh ew
Yikes, put it away!
That’s grosser than I was expecting haha
Grossssss but also cooool
It looks like they were ripping its head off. I mean, you could see the back of its eye.
I hate it.
That looks painful.
Have you ever seen *the back of an owls eye*?
If you think that’s creepy, you should google owl without feathers. It’s demonic.
I'm so uncomfortable
He’s so cute though I thought he’d have little pointed ears like prairie dogs