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12 responses to “Who are you?”
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Exactly! Just like you taught me. They should make rodent cases for cameras, kinda like the skins for iPods.
Glyph: I did not see her fly away. After the water drink, we handed her off to the Peninsula Humane Society to do a release back into nature in a more friendly environment. They said she was going to be just fine.
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I.feel.observed. ´=(
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I was trying to figure out the "next scene" after this shot… when the little owl tried to break the camera lens with his little beak (as for birds everything is "peckable", just as for dogs everything is "sniffable" -idea extracted from Alieness General Theory on Animal Cognition– )So, it seems that the peck-preventer device (cam protector) could have been a good idea…
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did you tell him already ’bout sister Chewy?
and his…
stepsister?
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Mat, that video was so shocking… you know, that kind of things so bizarre that you can´t yet decide if you like it or hate it? cool contribution- =) -
Next owl pic you take: The less you have to come up with is something like this: http://www.flickr.com/photos/bidwiya/511769838/
…and name it "Fondling TheOwlness…" and dedicating it to me. Sí.
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Check out this sequence of a Great Grey Owl in Minnesota:
And the current New Scientist sheds light on their senses. In this case, the owl has ears offset asymmetrically on the skull at 2 and 7 o’clock and the differential timing and volume allows it to pinpoint prey, even when the rodent is scurrying in tunnels under snow.
“Intriguingly, the hearing ability of birds living in temperate climes fluctuates through the year. The auditory regions of their brains grow during the breeding season, then shrink when song becomes less important. Understanding this process could provide clues to treating Alzheimer’s and other neurodegenerative diseases.”
“Another important difference between bird and human hearing occurs in the inner ear, and especially in the cochlea – the structure containing the vibration-sensitive "hearing" hairs. It is snail-shaped in humans, hence its name, whereas in birds it is banana-shaped. In both, the hair cells detect changes in pressure and transform these into electrical signals, which are interpreted as sound in the brain. Crucially, we cannot replace damaged hair cells, making deafness a scourge in older people. Birds, have no such problem: they can grow new hair cells. If we can discover the genetic basis underpinning this difference, it could give us the potential to solve a common cause of age-related hearing loss.”
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