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Speaker 1: Welcome to Stuff you Should Know, a production of I

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Speaker 1: Heart Radio. Hey, and welcome to the podcast. I'm Josh,

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Speaker 1: and there's Chuck and Jerry's helicoptering around or perched nearby.

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Speaker 1: All that will make sense in a little bit. And

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Speaker 1: this is stuff you should know. Bird of prey a

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Speaker 1: dish yeah, raptors and one of my favorite birds, a

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Speaker 1: dish yeah. Mine to love me. Some owls. We get

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Speaker 1: very excited here at the cent of Bryant House whenever

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Speaker 1: we get to see some owl action in the backyard.

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Speaker 1: We have some woods in a creek behind our house,

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Speaker 1: and I don't know, for a while there it seemed

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Speaker 1: like they might have been nesting. We were getting a

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Speaker 1: lot of visitors, but had one in the driveway one

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Speaker 1: time on a branch that we went out and looked at,

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Speaker 1: and it did that deal where it's facing another way

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Speaker 1: and hoodie hood at it and it turns this little

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Speaker 1: head around like the exerc tried at us, and Emily

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Speaker 1: went and Ruby was excited, and uh see we hear

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Speaker 1: at the camp having I don't know if they're having

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Speaker 1: sex or if those are mating calls, but some of

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Speaker 1: the crazy sounds they make manly interesting Yeah. I was

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Speaker 1: looking up all the different owl calls and um, they

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Speaker 1: are just magnificent and they're so very there's just so

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Speaker 1: many different calls. They sound so dissimilar. It's really cool.

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Speaker 1: There's one owl that sounds like a winning horse. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: my favorite. I think it's the Eastern screech owl. It

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Speaker 1: sounds like like a tiny little horse is winning. It's

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Speaker 1: it's one of the best bird calls I've ever heard.

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Speaker 1: Ten out of ten. Uh would recommend, Yes, Okay, for sure,

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Speaker 1: I just did. I think the ones that we hear

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Speaker 1: are the the crazy sounds. I think they're just regular,

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Speaker 1: not the bard owls, but the the great horned right,

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Speaker 1: those are I think those are the ones that most

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Speaker 1: people think of when they think of an owl. But

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Speaker 1: I think they're just sexy calls, like mating calls. But

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Speaker 1: they sound like howler monkeys almost. They do not sound

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Speaker 1: like owls. It's really crazy. Yeah, totally anyway, So I

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Speaker 1: love ols the end. I love owls too, And we're

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Speaker 1: gonna talk all about owls and including the how they

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Speaker 1: turn their heads all the way around, which is pretty cool. Um.

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Speaker 1: But one of the things that you hit upon right

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Speaker 1: out of the gate, Chuck was that owls are raptors

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Speaker 1: or birds of prey, so that that would put them

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Speaker 1: in league with hawks and eagles and that kind of thing. Um,

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Speaker 1: But there are a lot different from hawks and eagles,

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Speaker 1: not just in their looks and appearances, but in their

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Speaker 1: biology and the way that they hunt, the way that

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Speaker 1: they eat. Um, you know, they're they're they're actually definitely

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Speaker 1: their own thing. Yeah, there are lots stockier um actually

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Speaker 1: and look up wingspan, but to me, uh, it's always

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Speaker 1: signature owl. When you really notice something out of the

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Speaker 1: corner of your eye, I'm always like, oh, wait, that

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Speaker 1: has to be an owl because their wingspan is is

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Speaker 1: much more impressive than the hawks and the falcons around here. Yeah.

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Speaker 1: And they have big old heads of course, and little

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Speaker 1: shorty tails. Uh, they got that. The toe is kind

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Speaker 1: of a pretty featured, pretty cool featured, don't anythink. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: it goes either forward or backward, I guess, depending on

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Speaker 1: the bowl's mood. There's another thing that's like so quintessentially owl,

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Speaker 1: and that it has big eyes, not beady little eyes

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Speaker 1: so they have really amazing binocular vision and um, they

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Speaker 1: have probably the best night vision of any animal out there,

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Speaker 1: even better than cats. They say, yeah, and you know

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Speaker 1: one of the ways, Uh, this is something I wasn't

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Speaker 1: but those are a little intimidating looking in animal jet

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Speaker 1: see color and pupils and stuff, And apparently they are

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Speaker 1: the strictly nocturnal ones are the ones with the black eyes,

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Speaker 1: and that's how you can tell. And it's not like

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Speaker 1: it doesn't help them and hunting other than their black

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Speaker 1: all the souls that they captured over the years. I

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Speaker 1: think that's probably true too. So um, owls have been

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Speaker 1: because they've been around. I think the oldest owl fossil

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Speaker 1: little guy, the elf. Yeah, the elf owl. Those are

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Speaker 1: super cute. Those are the tiniest ones. And owls can

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Speaker 1: different kinds of owls that you might see, but mainly

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Speaker 1: the great horned and occasionally, if you're really lucky, you'll

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Speaker 1: but but mainly you're going to see the great horned

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Speaker 1: that what the the horns are. Yeah, it's just toughs

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Speaker 1: evolutionarily perfect killing machines, but satically is what owls are.

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Speaker 1: But they're also super chill too. Yeah, I mean you

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Speaker 1: she is right there. Yeah, exactly. Very adaptable camouflage. Well,

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Speaker 1: not adapt that doesn't change like an octopus, but you

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Speaker 1: the way that they typically differentiate them, Chuck is the

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Speaker 1: um barn owls have the heart shaped face. True owls

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Speaker 1: think they're obviously because they're more groupings or more true owls, right.

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Speaker 1: me let me try my best attempt. That's pretty close

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Speaker 1: but they're they're strange in their own way for sure. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: nighttime owl calls to calm you down, and it's great.

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Speaker 1: Like if you've run out of stuff, you should know

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Speaker 1: like that. I think we should talk about their head

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Speaker 1: turn though the exorcistem move, because when you see one

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Speaker 1: and they turn it to look directly those black eyes

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Speaker 1: directly into your face. I don't care how much you

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Speaker 1: love an owl, it is very a very chilling sensation

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Speaker 1: that comes up for you. It just is. It's because

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Speaker 1: the owls regarding you, they're not even looking at you.

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Speaker 1: They're they're like sizing you up. You can tell, you know, yeah,

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Speaker 1: maybe that's it. It's like are you food sort of look.

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Speaker 1: I almost take it as more like are you even

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Speaker 1: worthy to be in the same area A kind of thing,

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Speaker 1: but they I mean, but they deserve to do that.

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Speaker 1: I think owls can back that up. They're that cool. Yeah.

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Speaker 1: It's some really good vision. But their eyeballs just don't

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Speaker 1: soar more easily without flapping, so just you know, by

421
00:24:01,040 --> 00:24:03,800
Speaker 1: virtue of not flapping as much, they're making less noise.

422
00:24:04,720 --> 00:24:08,000
Speaker 1: And then the leading edge of their wings are serrated,

423
00:24:08,440 --> 00:24:12,359
Speaker 1: kind of comb like, and that takes turbulence turbulences that

424
00:24:12,720 --> 00:24:14,680
Speaker 1: air hitting the wing and going over the top of

425
00:24:14,720 --> 00:24:16,840
Speaker 1: the wing, which makes a lot of noise. Anyone has

426
00:24:16,880 --> 00:24:19,520
Speaker 1: ever ridden an airplane can tell you that. But because

427
00:24:19,520 --> 00:24:23,240
Speaker 1: it's serrated, it breaks that turbulence up into much smaller,

428
00:24:23,720 --> 00:24:27,960
Speaker 1: more manageable micro turbulences. And then it takes those micro

429
00:24:28,080 --> 00:24:33,600
Speaker 1: turbulences and passes them through the feathers, which further dampens everything. Right,

430
00:24:34,000 --> 00:24:37,040
Speaker 1: that's right, Uh, they have those other soft feathers I

431
00:24:37,080 --> 00:24:41,359
Speaker 1: guess sort of underneath. Is that the way to describe it.

432
00:24:41,400 --> 00:24:44,880
Speaker 1: I think I think um like in the trailing end

433
00:24:44,920 --> 00:24:47,320
Speaker 1: behind them. So yeah, depending on where that if the

434
00:24:47,320 --> 00:24:50,080
Speaker 1: owl is standing up with its wingspread, it'd be the bottom,

435
00:24:50,119 --> 00:24:53,159
Speaker 1: if it's flying and be the rear okay uh. And

436
00:24:53,200 --> 00:24:56,920
Speaker 1: they also can that shift that sound energy away and

437
00:24:57,359 --> 00:25:01,960
Speaker 1: I think they it's basic lead. It's a sound, but

438
00:25:02,040 --> 00:25:05,479
Speaker 1: it's a higher frequency so the prey can't hear it

439
00:25:05,560 --> 00:25:09,959
Speaker 1: and presumably humans can't. And then their secondary feathers kind

440
00:25:09,960 --> 00:25:11,639
Speaker 1: of do the same thing too, right, they're all like

441
00:25:11,680 --> 00:25:15,320
Speaker 1: looking in concert whatever turbulence has made it through um

442
00:25:15,480 --> 00:25:18,800
Speaker 1: the feathers or over the feathers. The like the fact

443
00:25:18,840 --> 00:25:22,840
Speaker 1: that owl feathers on the bottom or rear edge are tufted.

444
00:25:23,280 --> 00:25:25,880
Speaker 1: There's kind of you know, tough to it the best

445
00:25:25,880 --> 00:25:29,280
Speaker 1: way to put it. They actually break the turbulence up further.

446
00:25:29,480 --> 00:25:32,240
Speaker 1: And they also there's down behind him, and the down

447
00:25:32,600 --> 00:25:36,760
Speaker 1: absorbs any remaining sound, so like their wings just they

448
00:25:36,800 --> 00:25:39,600
Speaker 1: don't they don't allow the owl to make sound as

449
00:25:39,600 --> 00:25:42,360
Speaker 1: it's flying through the air. Yeah, And it's like you said,

450
00:25:42,400 --> 00:25:47,320
Speaker 1: it's a big, broad wide wingspan motion. So when something

451
00:25:47,800 --> 00:25:50,960
Speaker 1: that large is moving, but it's quiet. Is it can

452
00:25:51,000 --> 00:25:53,959
Speaker 1: be a little creepy, Yeah, I can imagine. And one

453
00:25:54,040 --> 00:25:57,520
Speaker 1: of the things that also makes owls so incredibly amazing

454
00:25:58,040 --> 00:26:01,399
Speaker 1: is that when they eat those rabbits or birds or squirrels,

455
00:26:01,800 --> 00:26:06,120
Speaker 1: they um other birds of prey. Other raptors will kill them,

456
00:26:06,200 --> 00:26:10,720
Speaker 1: usually with talents, and owls talents are amazingly strong, especially

457
00:26:10,760 --> 00:26:14,040
Speaker 1: the great horned owls. Supposedly it can exert them as

458
00:26:14,119 --> 00:26:18,000
Speaker 1: much force with its talents as the humans can maximally

459
00:26:18,119 --> 00:26:22,439
Speaker 1: with our bite. Um, it's pretty amazing. But they don't

460
00:26:22,520 --> 00:26:25,639
Speaker 1: actually um kill the prey with the talents. From what

461
00:26:25,680 --> 00:26:28,000
Speaker 1: I saw, they use their beak to basically kill the

462
00:26:28,000 --> 00:26:31,040
Speaker 1: prey after capturing it. And then what they do after

463
00:26:31,080 --> 00:26:34,359
Speaker 1: that is even more amazing. If you ask me, Chuck. Yeah,

464
00:26:34,400 --> 00:26:38,280
Speaker 1: they they swallow if they can. If it's too big,

465
00:26:38,320 --> 00:26:40,800
Speaker 1: they have to tear it into pieces. But if they

466
00:26:40,800 --> 00:26:44,800
Speaker 1: can manage it, they swallow it whole. And whatever they swallow,

467
00:26:44,880 --> 00:26:47,320
Speaker 1: say it's a mouse, that little mouse goes to a

468
00:26:47,440 --> 00:26:53,000
Speaker 1: temporary digestive organ called the proven triculus, and then it

469
00:26:53,040 --> 00:26:56,359
Speaker 1: goes to the gizzard and then from there it you know,

470
00:26:56,400 --> 00:27:00,480
Speaker 1: the gizzard digests whatever it can digest and then whatever

471
00:27:00,520 --> 00:27:04,120
Speaker 1: it can't digest, like oh, I don't know, bones, let's say,

472
00:27:04,800 --> 00:27:09,359
Speaker 1: or fur or other feathers or whatever. Uh, it sort

473
00:27:09,359 --> 00:27:12,320
Speaker 1: of just chills out down there for you know, up

474
00:27:12,359 --> 00:27:15,439
Speaker 1: to ten hours, Like their digestive system is blocked for

475
00:27:15,480 --> 00:27:19,040
Speaker 1: ten hours while this is happening, and it just you know,

476
00:27:19,119 --> 00:27:24,919
Speaker 1: sort of squeezes it into a uh regurgitatable what they

477
00:27:24,960 --> 00:27:27,680
Speaker 1: call a pellet, an altbellet. If you've ever heard of

478
00:27:27,680 --> 00:27:30,120
Speaker 1: alt pellets. It's not poop or anything. They just hack

479
00:27:30,200 --> 00:27:33,639
Speaker 1: back up like a bony hairball, almost of what they

480
00:27:33,720 --> 00:27:37,880
Speaker 1: last ate, right, but they couldn't digest and absorb. It's

481
00:27:37,880 --> 00:27:41,399
Speaker 1: pretty cool. I think bony hairball could be. It's like

482
00:27:41,440 --> 00:27:42,840
Speaker 1: if weird Al would have had a band at the

483
00:27:42,880 --> 00:27:44,879
Speaker 1: beginning of this career instead of just a king a

484
00:27:44,960 --> 00:27:48,000
Speaker 1: solo act, it probably would have been bony hairball. That's

485
00:27:48,040 --> 00:27:50,080
Speaker 1: the only person who could have pulled that off to

486
00:27:50,359 --> 00:27:54,560
Speaker 1: so um. So yeah, it's pretty amazing that owls just

487
00:27:55,119 --> 00:27:58,639
Speaker 1: puke their undigestible parts of their food back up in

488
00:27:58,680 --> 00:28:01,920
Speaker 1: a nice efficient it um. And when they catch food,

489
00:28:01,920 --> 00:28:04,040
Speaker 1: if the hunting is like really really good, they might

490
00:28:04,040 --> 00:28:07,560
Speaker 1: not eat it immediately. They'll do what I remember alligators do.

491
00:28:08,000 --> 00:28:10,320
Speaker 1: They'll basically go hide it. They stash it for a

492
00:28:10,359 --> 00:28:13,680
Speaker 1: little while, and I think alligators did it to let

493
00:28:13,720 --> 00:28:16,920
Speaker 1: the thing actually decay some so that they could pull

494
00:28:16,960 --> 00:28:19,800
Speaker 1: it apart more easily. I get the impression owls aren't

495
00:28:19,800 --> 00:28:23,280
Speaker 1: really doing that for that reason. They're they're just there's

496
00:28:23,320 --> 00:28:25,440
Speaker 1: just such an embarrassment of riches as far as the

497
00:28:25,480 --> 00:28:28,320
Speaker 1: hunting goes there, you know, stashing it away for a

498
00:28:28,359 --> 00:28:30,520
Speaker 1: day or two and then coming back and eating it later.

499
00:28:31,160 --> 00:28:33,199
Speaker 1: I think I've seen al pellets in the woods and

500
00:28:33,240 --> 00:28:36,439
Speaker 1: didn't know what they were. Did you pick it up

501
00:28:36,480 --> 00:28:39,040
Speaker 1: and rub it between your fingers and sniff it and say,

502
00:28:39,280 --> 00:28:42,320
Speaker 1: I don't know what this is? No, but I think

503
00:28:42,680 --> 00:28:44,880
Speaker 1: there are times when I've seen a thing and I thought,

504
00:28:45,360 --> 00:28:48,080
Speaker 1: Jesus that a dead mouse like it sure looks like

505
00:28:48,120 --> 00:28:50,520
Speaker 1: it could be, but it's not shape like one. A

506
00:28:50,560 --> 00:28:53,719
Speaker 1: giant thigh bone sticking out of it. I bet you anything,

507
00:28:53,800 --> 00:28:56,200
Speaker 1: there's their al pellets. But you're going to be on

508
00:28:56,200 --> 00:28:58,960
Speaker 1: the lookout now. Yeah, And if you see a bunch

509
00:28:59,000 --> 00:29:04,320
Speaker 1: of them together, there are um probably several hours owls nearby,

510
00:29:04,680 --> 00:29:07,520
Speaker 1: because that means it's really good hunting ground. And owls

511
00:29:07,520 --> 00:29:09,560
Speaker 1: tend to stay near hunting ground. So if you see

512
00:29:09,560 --> 00:29:11,520
Speaker 1: a bunch of owl pellets, there's a bunch of owls

513
00:29:11,560 --> 00:29:14,200
Speaker 1: around you, and you just probably look up and look

514
00:29:14,240 --> 00:29:16,960
Speaker 1: closely and you'll see something that's right. Uh. And as

515
00:29:16,960 --> 00:29:20,040
Speaker 1: far as their hunting goes, there's a few different methods. Uh.

516
00:29:20,200 --> 00:29:22,800
Speaker 1: Some are a little lazier than others. I think I

517
00:29:22,840 --> 00:29:26,000
Speaker 1: would be a perch and pounce guy. And that's the

518
00:29:26,040 --> 00:29:28,520
Speaker 1: thing here is exactly what it sounds like. They kind

519
00:29:28,520 --> 00:29:30,880
Speaker 1: of hang out on their perch, do their thing. They

520
00:29:30,880 --> 00:29:34,320
Speaker 1: look around with those I tubes and when they see something,

521
00:29:34,360 --> 00:29:37,000
Speaker 1: and only when they see something are they gonna swoop

522
00:29:37,040 --> 00:29:41,080
Speaker 1: down very silently and snatch it up. Yes, works pretty well.

523
00:29:41,520 --> 00:29:45,840
Speaker 1: There's also quartering flight, which is I guess middling as

524
00:29:45,880 --> 00:29:49,120
Speaker 1: far as exerting yourself goes. The owl just basically flies

525
00:29:49,160 --> 00:29:52,800
Speaker 1: around and looks for prey down below. And like we said,

526
00:29:52,840 --> 00:29:56,760
Speaker 1: they have amazing binocular vision, so they they'll see something

527
00:29:56,800 --> 00:29:59,560
Speaker 1: eventually and then again they swoop down and there goes

528
00:29:59,640 --> 00:30:02,960
Speaker 1: the prey. Um. And then there's a third called helicoptering,

529
00:30:03,000 --> 00:30:05,240
Speaker 1: which I think I mentioned at the very beginning of

530
00:30:05,280 --> 00:30:10,720
Speaker 1: the episode. Yeah, that's right. And um, that is the

531
00:30:10,960 --> 00:30:13,520
Speaker 1: far and away the hardest way for them to hunt

532
00:30:13,560 --> 00:30:17,200
Speaker 1: because they just basically hover over an area until they

533
00:30:17,240 --> 00:30:20,200
Speaker 1: can locate the prey and then they swoop down and pouncing,

534
00:30:20,400 --> 00:30:22,680
Speaker 1: and who knows how long they're going to have to helicopter.

535
00:30:23,280 --> 00:30:25,880
Speaker 1: I actually couldn't find a video, Chuck. It looked really hard.

536
00:30:26,680 --> 00:30:29,840
Speaker 1: But you know how when something happens, the Internet basically

537
00:30:29,880 --> 00:30:34,320
Speaker 1: pushes everything else out in favor of that one thing. Well,

538
00:30:34,360 --> 00:30:39,040
Speaker 1: there is apparently a firefighting helicopter I think in California once.

539
00:30:39,200 --> 00:30:41,720
Speaker 1: Um that was flying in the air and owl flew

540
00:30:41,800 --> 00:30:45,680
Speaker 1: in and just perched itself inside the helicopter. So if

541
00:30:45,720 --> 00:30:51,800
Speaker 1: you search owl helicoptering, that's all that comes up. Yeah.

542
00:30:51,840 --> 00:30:54,640
Speaker 1: I have seen birds of prey do this at the

543
00:30:54,760 --> 00:31:00,920
Speaker 1: lake where they're circling above looking for fish, and then

544
00:31:00,960 --> 00:31:04,959
Speaker 1: they will, uh, they will stop in place in helicopter

545
00:31:05,000 --> 00:31:06,600
Speaker 1: for a moment, and that's when you know that they've

546
00:31:07,160 --> 00:31:09,800
Speaker 1: locked in on something. And I mean that's amazing too,

547
00:31:09,880 --> 00:31:11,600
Speaker 1: how a hawk can see a fish in the water

548
00:31:11,960 --> 00:31:15,240
Speaker 1: a hundred feet below them. Yeah, and then they dive

549
00:31:15,640 --> 00:31:18,920
Speaker 1: and then grab the fish. And I always I don't laugh,

550
00:31:19,000 --> 00:31:23,280
Speaker 1: but I always sort of joke about like what that

551
00:31:23,360 --> 00:31:26,040
Speaker 1: must be like for the fish to be just swimming

552
00:31:26,080 --> 00:31:31,760
Speaker 1: along underwater and seconds later be flying a hundred feet

553
00:31:31,840 --> 00:31:35,440
Speaker 1: above the lake with, you know, being gripped by talents.

554
00:31:35,480 --> 00:31:38,440
Speaker 1: Can you imagine what that does to your day? I know,

555
00:31:38,640 --> 00:31:41,720
Speaker 1: I've I've I've thought about that many times, and you're right,

556
00:31:41,760 --> 00:31:43,760
Speaker 1: it is hard not to laugh at it because it's

557
00:31:43,800 --> 00:31:48,240
Speaker 1: just so nuts and they're probably oh my god. Yeah,

558
00:31:48,280 --> 00:31:50,520
Speaker 1: but at the same time, it's like, Okay, they're about

559
00:31:50,560 --> 00:31:55,520
Speaker 1: to die, but they're being taken on the most thrilling experience. Yeah,

560
00:31:56,160 --> 00:31:58,400
Speaker 1: at least they get to go out like that. But yeah,

561
00:31:58,400 --> 00:32:00,680
Speaker 1: it's really it's sad to see like a like a

562
00:32:00,760 --> 00:32:04,240
Speaker 1: fish just flip flipping back and forth, not like furiously,

563
00:32:04,400 --> 00:32:07,200
Speaker 1: it's more just like kind of anxiously flipping back and forth,

564
00:32:07,200 --> 00:32:10,040
Speaker 1: like what's going on? Almost like if it were a person,

565
00:32:10,400 --> 00:32:12,760
Speaker 1: it would be it's the equivalent person like sitting in

566
00:32:12,760 --> 00:32:14,800
Speaker 1: a corner with their knees up to their chest, rocking

567
00:32:14,800 --> 00:32:17,280
Speaker 1: back and forth. That's that's the motion that those fish

568
00:32:17,320 --> 00:32:20,040
Speaker 1: make when they're in the talents. Yeah, and I've also

569
00:32:20,120 --> 00:32:24,040
Speaker 1: seen them drop said fish and swoop down and grab

570
00:32:24,080 --> 00:32:26,520
Speaker 1: it out of the air. Which is also very impressive. Wow,

571
00:32:26,680 --> 00:32:32,120
Speaker 1: that's just that's playing with really quite a show. But

572
00:32:32,320 --> 00:32:35,200
Speaker 1: the owl back to the owls, they, like you said,

573
00:32:35,200 --> 00:32:39,200
Speaker 1: they do have those sharp talents, and they spend you know,

574
00:32:39,640 --> 00:32:42,360
Speaker 1: they spend a lot of their time hunting. It's uh.

575
00:32:42,480 --> 00:32:46,360
Speaker 1: When they're not hunting, they're generally resting or you know, roosting,

576
00:32:46,640 --> 00:32:49,760
Speaker 1: which is resting. And most of the time they'll roost alone,

577
00:32:50,640 --> 00:32:55,080
Speaker 1: but sometimes they share space. Um owls, you know, they

578
00:32:55,080 --> 00:32:56,480
Speaker 1: can kind of mix it up a little bit. They're

579
00:32:56,480 --> 00:32:59,800
Speaker 1: generally loaners, but they can also hang out around other owls,

580
00:33:00,200 --> 00:33:03,480
Speaker 1: especially in like breeding season, they may hang around a

581
00:33:03,560 --> 00:33:06,800
Speaker 1: little more near other owls. Yeah, they it's called a

582
00:33:06,840 --> 00:33:10,160
Speaker 1: communal roost um. And there there are some advantages, Like

583
00:33:10,200 --> 00:33:14,240
Speaker 1: you said, during breeding season, it's easier to find a mate. Um.

584
00:33:14,280 --> 00:33:17,520
Speaker 1: If it's cold out, it's much easier to stay warm

585
00:33:17,600 --> 00:33:21,040
Speaker 1: in a small little area with a bunch of other owls. Um.

586
00:33:21,080 --> 00:33:26,480
Speaker 1: They apparently will trade information about hunting grounds nearby. And

587
00:33:26,520 --> 00:33:28,600
Speaker 1: I'm I don't know how they do that. I didn't

588
00:33:28,600 --> 00:33:31,440
Speaker 1: see how, but I thought that was pretty awesome. And

589
00:33:31,480 --> 00:33:34,400
Speaker 1: then also they like the more owls there are, the

590
00:33:34,480 --> 00:33:38,320
Speaker 1: less likely the owls are to be mobbed by other birds. Yeah,

591
00:33:38,360 --> 00:33:40,960
Speaker 1: and that's the thing. It didn't surprise me it happened

592
00:33:40,960 --> 00:33:43,920
Speaker 1: owls because I've also seen this at the lake with

593
00:33:44,080 --> 00:33:48,760
Speaker 1: hawks and uh and uh falcons. When you see one

594
00:33:48,840 --> 00:33:51,400
Speaker 1: of them coming up on a nest like looking for

595
00:33:51,480 --> 00:33:54,880
Speaker 1: some eggs or baby birds, they will be attacked by

596
00:33:55,120 --> 00:33:58,480
Speaker 1: tiny little birds. They will just come after them basically

597
00:33:58,520 --> 00:34:00,920
Speaker 1: and just say, there's a lot of us. We can

598
00:34:00,920 --> 00:34:05,000
Speaker 1: fly in a lot like quicker zigzaggy patterns, and they

599
00:34:05,040 --> 00:34:08,160
Speaker 1: just they kind of swarm them and intimidate and confuse

600
00:34:08,280 --> 00:34:11,400
Speaker 1: and just try and drive them away. Basically. They're like,

601
00:34:11,719 --> 00:34:15,160
Speaker 1: you're like being harassed. Yeah, I'm not touching you. It's

602
00:34:15,160 --> 00:34:17,840
Speaker 1: pretty cool to see because you know, these big giant

603
00:34:17,840 --> 00:34:19,799
Speaker 1: birds of prey, it's kind of interesting that they can

604
00:34:19,840 --> 00:34:23,800
Speaker 1: be thwarted by, you know, a gang of tenacious little birds.

605
00:34:24,080 --> 00:34:26,440
Speaker 1: It is it's it's just so heartwarming to see that

606
00:34:26,440 --> 00:34:29,640
Speaker 1: because it's I don't think I've ever seen it unsuccessful,

607
00:34:29,880 --> 00:34:32,080
Speaker 1: have you, Like it always works now. It seems like

608
00:34:32,120 --> 00:34:33,920
Speaker 1: they're always like, all right, fine, I'm out of here.

609
00:34:34,680 --> 00:34:37,000
Speaker 1: Very well. If you're going to be like that about

610
00:34:37,040 --> 00:34:39,719
Speaker 1: me eating your children, we've gotta take a fish on

611
00:34:39,760 --> 00:34:43,359
Speaker 1: the ride of his life. Right, you want to take

612
00:34:43,400 --> 00:34:45,680
Speaker 1: our second break and come back about and talk about

613
00:34:45,680 --> 00:34:48,919
Speaker 1: making new owls. Sure, I thought you're gonna say making love,

614
00:34:49,000 --> 00:35:14,600
Speaker 1: but same thing. Yeah, Oh okay, Chuck, It's time to

615
00:35:14,600 --> 00:35:18,720
Speaker 1: talk about owl lovemaking. UM. And one of the things

616
00:35:18,800 --> 00:35:21,720
Speaker 1: that you are hearing, like you said, in the woods,

617
00:35:21,719 --> 00:35:24,279
Speaker 1: when you're hearing a bunch of crazy owl calls, are

618
00:35:24,360 --> 00:35:28,040
Speaker 1: owls trying to attract a mate. That's one that basically

619
00:35:28,080 --> 00:35:30,759
Speaker 1: that and defense are the two reasons that they call.

620
00:35:30,840 --> 00:35:34,480
Speaker 1: From what we can tell, UM, and males will sit

621
00:35:34,520 --> 00:35:36,960
Speaker 1: there and call through the woods. Because of the frequency

622
00:35:36,960 --> 00:35:39,120
Speaker 1: of their calls, it's really easy for it to just

623
00:35:39,200 --> 00:35:44,200
Speaker 1: travel right through vegetation, so it can travel really long distances. UM.

624
00:35:44,239 --> 00:35:47,560
Speaker 1: And then females of that same species will listen out

625
00:35:47,680 --> 00:35:51,520
Speaker 1: and return the call to males of her species and

626
00:35:51,880 --> 00:35:55,160
Speaker 1: they might get something going from that point on. Yeah,

627
00:35:55,280 --> 00:35:57,040
Speaker 1: And like a lot of animals, the males can do

628
00:35:57,080 --> 00:36:01,279
Speaker 1: a very elaborate sort of courting. Dan's and you know,

629
00:36:01,400 --> 00:36:03,719
Speaker 1: lots of it's what you might think, a lot of flapping,

630
00:36:04,080 --> 00:36:06,319
Speaker 1: a lot of sort of chess beating, a lot of

631
00:36:06,400 --> 00:36:09,600
Speaker 1: diving and climbing, and hey, look at me like I

632
00:36:09,600 --> 00:36:12,160
Speaker 1: can do all this stuff. They call it a sky dance.

633
00:36:12,800 --> 00:36:15,919
Speaker 1: And then eventually that mail will um you know, wind

634
00:36:16,000 --> 00:36:19,680
Speaker 1: up in the grasses on the ground and just say

635
00:36:19,800 --> 00:36:24,279
Speaker 1: what do you think ladies. Uh, My good friend Mike

636
00:36:24,440 --> 00:36:29,919
Speaker 1: Rino made this incredible video where he records I don't

637
00:36:29,920 --> 00:36:33,000
Speaker 1: know if he recorded or got recordings of um owl

638
00:36:33,080 --> 00:36:35,840
Speaker 1: mating calls. I guess he knew he had a randy

639
00:36:35,840 --> 00:36:39,120
Speaker 1: owl in his backyard and he put this speaker on

640
00:36:39,200 --> 00:36:41,920
Speaker 1: his deck. And he's a cameraman in the film business,

641
00:36:41,920 --> 00:36:43,600
Speaker 1: so I'm not sure what he shot at with. But

642
00:36:43,640 --> 00:36:47,359
Speaker 1: he had a slow motion camera rig going and he

643
00:36:47,640 --> 00:36:52,560
Speaker 1: got a owl diving onto the speaker in slow motion

644
00:36:52,640 --> 00:36:55,680
Speaker 1: on his deck and it's one of the most incredible

645
00:36:55,719 --> 00:36:58,520
Speaker 1: cool shots I've ever seen. And he was like, yeah,

646
00:36:58,760 --> 00:37:01,840
Speaker 1: it's just like one afternoon. Uh, and he and he

647
00:37:01,880 --> 00:37:05,799
Speaker 1: made it happen. It's very very cool. I mean, he

648
00:37:05,840 --> 00:37:07,840
Speaker 1: put it on his Facebook years ago. But I'll have

649
00:37:07,920 --> 00:37:10,120
Speaker 1: to I'll text it and get it and send it

650
00:37:10,160 --> 00:37:14,200
Speaker 1: to you, Okay from Okay God, thanks man. Yeah, or

651
00:37:14,239 --> 00:37:16,960
Speaker 1: maybe he'll give you permission to put on the stuff

652
00:37:16,960 --> 00:37:20,400
Speaker 1: you should know Instagram or something. Yeah. One of the

653
00:37:20,480 --> 00:37:22,840
Speaker 1: things that I thought was really cool is if that

654
00:37:22,960 --> 00:37:26,360
Speaker 1: owl had been able to mate with your friends speaker,

655
00:37:26,880 --> 00:37:31,480
Speaker 1: they would have stayed together potentially for life. I love

656
00:37:31,520 --> 00:37:35,319
Speaker 1: you so right. At the very least, the owl, the

657
00:37:35,400 --> 00:37:38,520
Speaker 1: male owl would have stuck around for a year throughout

658
00:37:38,520 --> 00:37:41,759
Speaker 1: the breeding cycle. At the very least, um they are

659
00:37:41,960 --> 00:37:45,640
Speaker 1: they help um raise the eggs in then later on

660
00:37:45,719 --> 00:37:49,160
Speaker 1: the hatchlings and the nestlings, which is pretty cool. I

661
00:37:49,200 --> 00:37:52,560
Speaker 1: think it is cool. Uh. And those mothers might lay

662
00:37:53,400 --> 00:37:55,319
Speaker 1: I mean average five or six eggs, but they could

663
00:37:55,360 --> 00:37:57,640
Speaker 1: lay up to ten or eleven eggs over a few days.

664
00:37:58,239 --> 00:38:00,680
Speaker 1: And it really kind of depends on if they're if

665
00:38:00,719 --> 00:38:03,400
Speaker 1: it's if they think it's a successful area. There's a

666
00:38:03,440 --> 00:38:07,319
Speaker 1: lot of food around, they think these little outlets might

667
00:38:07,440 --> 00:38:10,640
Speaker 1: might survive that then they will have more eggs, which

668
00:38:10,680 --> 00:38:14,040
Speaker 1: is pretty remarkable in itself. And she stays with those

669
00:38:14,040 --> 00:38:17,360
Speaker 1: eggs until they hatch takes about twenty four to thirty

670
00:38:17,360 --> 00:38:21,040
Speaker 1: two days and doesn't leave the male. It is kind

671
00:38:21,040 --> 00:38:23,560
Speaker 1: of sweet. Go gets food and brings it back to

672
00:38:23,600 --> 00:38:26,480
Speaker 1: the mom so she can eat, although she does lose

673
00:38:26,520 --> 00:38:28,560
Speaker 1: a little bit of weight because she's probably not eating

674
00:38:28,920 --> 00:38:32,120
Speaker 1: like she usually does. And then one of my favorite

675
00:38:32,120 --> 00:38:36,120
Speaker 1: words in nature, the egg tooth is how the little

676
00:38:36,160 --> 00:38:40,320
Speaker 1: baby outlets cracked themselves out. And then there I guess

677
00:38:40,440 --> 00:38:43,480
Speaker 1: little fledglings at that point, right. Yeah, There's one other

678
00:38:43,520 --> 00:38:45,920
Speaker 1: thing before they hatch that I thought was cool. The

679
00:38:46,000 --> 00:38:50,680
Speaker 1: mom loses the feathers on her belly. She can transfer

680
00:38:50,719 --> 00:38:53,279
Speaker 1: heat from her body to the eggs more efficiently, which

681
00:38:53,280 --> 00:38:55,640
Speaker 1: I thought was really cool. So I'm sure she loses

682
00:38:55,640 --> 00:38:58,440
Speaker 1: weight because she's generating so much heat, Like her metabolism

683
00:38:58,480 --> 00:39:01,680
Speaker 1: must just go through the roof. That makes sense. So yeah,

684
00:39:01,680 --> 00:39:04,839
Speaker 1: So the little owl it's hatch, and depending on the species,

685
00:39:04,880 --> 00:39:08,600
Speaker 1: they are super duper cute or else they are horrific.

686
00:39:09,680 --> 00:39:12,719
Speaker 1: The barn owls in particular horrifying to look at for

687
00:39:12,760 --> 00:39:16,680
Speaker 1: the first several days before they get feathers. Any baby

688
00:39:16,680 --> 00:39:19,640
Speaker 1: bird without feathers is not really pleasant to see, but

689
00:39:19,680 --> 00:39:23,160
Speaker 1: the barn owls in particular are really rough. Um. But

690
00:39:23,239 --> 00:39:25,560
Speaker 1: then once they start to get those fluffy, little downy

691
00:39:25,600 --> 00:39:28,920
Speaker 1: feathers there, they begin to be adorable. But for the

692
00:39:28,960 --> 00:39:33,160
Speaker 1: first like at least couple of weeks, they are totally helpless,

693
00:39:33,160 --> 00:39:37,120
Speaker 1: eyes closed, Um, they can't fend for themselves in any way.

694
00:39:37,239 --> 00:39:39,520
Speaker 1: They can't fly, and then more to the point, they

695
00:39:39,560 --> 00:39:42,840
Speaker 1: can't thermoregulate, so they can't keep themselves warm. They're still

696
00:39:42,920 --> 00:39:46,120
Speaker 1: totally dependent on their mom to keep them warm and

697
00:39:46,200 --> 00:39:49,200
Speaker 1: keep them from freezing to death. And then finally, once

698
00:39:49,239 --> 00:39:52,359
Speaker 1: they cross that threshold where they can thermoregulate on their own,

699
00:39:52,640 --> 00:39:56,320
Speaker 1: they start to like literally branch out from the nest. Yeah,

700
00:39:56,360 --> 00:39:58,799
Speaker 1: and this it didn't take too long. It's about a week, right,

701
00:39:58,880 --> 00:40:02,280
Speaker 1: or a little under couple couple of weeks, Okay, So

702
00:40:02,600 --> 00:40:05,400
Speaker 1: eventually those eyes will open and those little white, downy

703
00:40:05,440 --> 00:40:09,880
Speaker 1: feathers become a little more gray and brown and uh

704
00:40:10,160 --> 00:40:13,839
Speaker 1: functional most importantly. But yeah, they'll do two things. They will,

705
00:40:14,320 --> 00:40:16,560
Speaker 1: uh some of them will go nest on the ground,

706
00:40:17,560 --> 00:40:20,960
Speaker 1: but the ones who the nestlings who stay in the trees,

707
00:40:21,040 --> 00:40:23,760
Speaker 1: they will just literally go to a branch that's nearby

708
00:40:24,400 --> 00:40:26,480
Speaker 1: and they'll hang out and they wait to fly. The

709
00:40:26,480 --> 00:40:29,360
Speaker 1: ones on the ground kind of cover themselves up in

710
00:40:29,400 --> 00:40:32,040
Speaker 1: the grasses and stuff until they can fly, because they're

711
00:40:32,120 --> 00:40:35,880
Speaker 1: very obviously, very vulnerable at this point. And I imagine

712
00:40:35,880 --> 00:40:38,359
Speaker 1: any other bird of prey that's sort of wide open

713
00:40:38,440 --> 00:40:41,560
Speaker 1: for them, right, Yeah, yeah, for sure. But because of this,

714
00:40:41,640 --> 00:40:44,480
Speaker 1: if you find an owl or outlet, I should say

715
00:40:44,520 --> 00:40:48,520
Speaker 1: on the ground, Um, don't don't take it home, because

716
00:40:48,520 --> 00:40:52,960
Speaker 1: it hasn't been abandoned. It's probably out exploring um or

717
00:40:53,000 --> 00:40:56,319
Speaker 1: something were branching. Yeah, just leave it. Not only leave it,

718
00:40:56,560 --> 00:40:59,000
Speaker 1: um if you can put it in like either a

719
00:40:59,040 --> 00:41:01,239
Speaker 1: low branch or some we're on a shrub and the

720
00:41:01,280 --> 00:41:03,759
Speaker 1: mom will come back for it. Because I know we've

721
00:41:03,760 --> 00:41:07,560
Speaker 1: talked about this before somewhere, but handling a bird doesn't

722
00:41:07,600 --> 00:41:11,120
Speaker 1: cause the mother bird to abandon it. It's an old

723
00:41:11,120 --> 00:41:14,000
Speaker 1: wives sale. Yeah, just leave the bird there, you know,

724
00:41:14,160 --> 00:41:16,080
Speaker 1: or put it in a little branch or something, and

725
00:41:16,160 --> 00:41:18,520
Speaker 1: it will be taken care of from that point on. Yeah.

726
00:41:18,560 --> 00:41:22,960
Speaker 1: I mean my advice has always to just let it alone. Um.

727
00:41:23,000 --> 00:41:25,560
Speaker 1: But if it's looks like it's in harm's way, or

728
00:41:25,600 --> 00:41:28,800
Speaker 1: if you just can't resist picking up the baby outlet

729
00:41:29,800 --> 00:41:32,120
Speaker 1: and then and say I'm going to move it because

730
00:41:32,160 --> 00:41:34,960
Speaker 1: it's not safe, wink wink, And then just get a

731
00:41:35,000 --> 00:41:38,680
Speaker 1: little little scritch scratch of those downy feathers. Just don't

732
00:41:38,680 --> 00:41:42,400
Speaker 1: do it for long, right, and try and leave it alone,

733
00:41:41,920 --> 00:41:44,799
Speaker 1: maybe just long enough to go I love you so much.

734
00:41:46,760 --> 00:41:50,080
Speaker 1: What if the owl said I love you too? There's

735
00:41:50,200 --> 00:41:53,360
Speaker 1: one other cool thing about baby owls too, right, because

736
00:41:53,360 --> 00:41:56,880
Speaker 1: of the size of their heads. Uh, I don't know,

737
00:41:57,080 --> 00:42:00,560
Speaker 1: they're Okay, they're they're cute. They are cute. Here's another

738
00:42:00,640 --> 00:42:04,680
Speaker 1: rival for fact of the podcast. Because baby owl heads

739
00:42:04,719 --> 00:42:09,320
Speaker 1: are so big, disproportionate or proportionately to their body. Um.

740
00:42:09,360 --> 00:42:12,840
Speaker 1: They don't sleep sitting up, laying down on their bellies,

741
00:42:13,560 --> 00:42:17,319
Speaker 1: and they look a lot like little baby puppies sleeping. Um,

742
00:42:17,320 --> 00:42:19,440
Speaker 1: and some of them will. Actually I've seen a picture

743
00:42:19,440 --> 00:42:23,120
Speaker 1: of a baby owl spluting, like on its belly, spread

744
00:42:23,160 --> 00:42:28,520
Speaker 1: eagle on on the ground. It's really really cute to see. Yeah, Okay,

745
00:42:28,800 --> 00:42:30,839
Speaker 1: what do you call it? I don't know, because it's

746
00:42:30,840 --> 00:42:34,839
Speaker 1: funny when dogs do it. Uh, what do I call that?

747
00:42:35,880 --> 00:42:37,320
Speaker 1: I don't know what we call it. I'll have to

748
00:42:37,320 --> 00:42:40,440
Speaker 1: ask Emily, And I think we've got a word for it. Okay, Well,

749
00:42:40,560 --> 00:42:43,320
Speaker 1: let us know report back, because spluts what I've always

750
00:42:43,360 --> 00:42:45,640
Speaker 1: gone with. Yeah, I mean, I think every family has

751
00:42:45,640 --> 00:42:48,040
Speaker 1: her own name for that stuff, right. Sure are you

752
00:42:48,040 --> 00:42:51,120
Speaker 1: saying that splut is like a scientific term. I don't

753
00:42:51,120 --> 00:42:53,480
Speaker 1: know if it's scientific, but I feel like it's widespread.

754
00:42:53,480 --> 00:42:55,720
Speaker 1: I don't think it to be coined. It or anything

755
00:42:55,800 --> 00:42:57,759
Speaker 1: like that. Oh you never know, you mean's quite clever.

756
00:42:58,160 --> 00:43:01,760
Speaker 1: She is pretty it's the words stuff she says spreads

757
00:43:01,800 --> 00:43:04,279
Speaker 1: on the internet like wildfire. I believe it, all right,

758
00:43:04,360 --> 00:43:06,440
Speaker 1: So let's hear that's the email I want? Is what

759
00:43:06,480 --> 00:43:09,520
Speaker 1: do you call an animal? And you know what we're

760
00:43:09,520 --> 00:43:14,200
Speaker 1: talking about, like a froggy like frog's legs spread on

761
00:43:14,239 --> 00:43:18,359
Speaker 1: the ground. Ye. All right, So humans, like we said,

762
00:43:18,400 --> 00:43:21,680
Speaker 1: we love owls. It seems like humans have always been fascinated. Uh,

763
00:43:21,680 --> 00:43:25,279
Speaker 1: they're very famous. Uh was it the Chuvat Cave in

764
00:43:25,320 --> 00:43:29,319
Speaker 1: France with all those amazing cave paintings from twenty tho

765
00:43:29,560 --> 00:43:34,200
Speaker 1: years ago? There is very distinctly an owl drawn, and

766
00:43:34,600 --> 00:43:37,960
Speaker 1: you know whether it's ancient Greece. Uh, it's just people

767
00:43:38,000 --> 00:43:42,319
Speaker 1: have always been fascinated with owls, I think. Uh. One

768
00:43:42,360 --> 00:43:44,560
Speaker 1: reason is there can be very useful, Like if you're

769
00:43:44,560 --> 00:43:48,520
Speaker 1: a farmer, you want owls around, you know, for pest control. Yeah.

770
00:43:48,600 --> 00:43:54,040
Speaker 1: Apparently a single barn owl will eat um fifty pounds

771
00:43:54,080 --> 00:43:58,720
Speaker 1: of gophers in a year. That's a lot of gophers,

772
00:43:58,800 --> 00:44:01,400
Speaker 1: because the gopher doesn't a pound. That's a ton of gophers.

773
00:44:01,520 --> 00:44:04,439
Speaker 1: And then a single barn owl family will eat about

774
00:44:04,520 --> 00:44:08,560
Speaker 1: three thousand rodents in a four month breeding cycle. And

775
00:44:08,640 --> 00:44:11,480
Speaker 1: so not only is that like natural and you know,

776
00:44:11,600 --> 00:44:13,799
Speaker 1: circle of life kind of stuff, the farmer can feel

777
00:44:13,840 --> 00:44:17,319
Speaker 1: good about that. They'll also save on poison, which is

778
00:44:17,360 --> 00:44:21,160
Speaker 1: a problem not just for the rodents that the farmer's poison,

779
00:44:21,239 --> 00:44:23,480
Speaker 1: but for the owls that eat the poison rodents. There's

780
00:44:23,480 --> 00:44:28,360
Speaker 1: a lot of owls that have died incidentally because farmers

781
00:44:28,360 --> 00:44:30,920
Speaker 1: have used poison bait on their roads to try to

782
00:44:30,960 --> 00:44:33,279
Speaker 1: control rodents. If you've got owls, you don't have to

783
00:44:33,320 --> 00:44:37,200
Speaker 1: worry about rodents. So farmers heart owls, that's right, And

784
00:44:37,520 --> 00:44:41,080
Speaker 1: owls and humans generally hard each other. Uh but I

785
00:44:41,080 --> 00:44:44,359
Speaker 1: did you know, back when I was on social media

786
00:44:44,520 --> 00:44:48,320
Speaker 1: years ago, I remember seeing more than one neighborhood boast

787
00:44:48,960 --> 00:44:53,319
Speaker 1: about joggers being attacked by owls in the neighborhood. And

788
00:44:53,360 --> 00:44:55,840
Speaker 1: so I looked it up today and it it definitely

789
00:44:55,880 --> 00:44:59,560
Speaker 1: happens on the rag. Uh. They say, if you're out

790
00:44:59,600 --> 00:45:02,759
Speaker 1: for an only morning jog um, maybe don't have a

791
00:45:02,760 --> 00:45:06,560
Speaker 1: ponytail flopping. Tuck your hair up in a hat because

792
00:45:06,760 --> 00:45:09,319
Speaker 1: people there are a lot of reports no one's ever

793
00:45:09,360 --> 00:45:11,200
Speaker 1: been like, you know, you might get a little scratched up,

794
00:45:11,640 --> 00:45:15,160
Speaker 1: so it's not like a fatal thing or anything like that.

795
00:45:15,280 --> 00:45:18,160
Speaker 1: He probably won't even get injured. But those owls are big,

796
00:45:18,160 --> 00:45:21,760
Speaker 1: and to have one scratching at your head briefly even

797
00:45:21,920 --> 00:45:26,640
Speaker 1: is probably pretty scary. Yeah, for sure, those crepuscular owls

798
00:45:26,680 --> 00:45:29,480
Speaker 1: sound like they're trouble. But what's the deal with the

799
00:45:29,520 --> 00:45:32,480
Speaker 1: wisdom and the owls? Because that's the thing. Since I

800
00:45:32,520 --> 00:45:36,000
Speaker 1: was a little kid, you always associated owls with having

801
00:45:36,000 --> 00:45:39,359
Speaker 1: a little graduation cap on right, exactly like the one

802
00:45:39,440 --> 00:45:43,080
Speaker 1: from the Tusty roll pop commercials or owl from Winning

803
00:45:43,160 --> 00:45:46,960
Speaker 1: the pooh Um. So there's two schools of thought, and

804
00:45:46,960 --> 00:45:50,160
Speaker 1: they're not necessarily even mutually exclusive. But one is that

805
00:45:50,200 --> 00:45:53,360
Speaker 1: the Archaic Greeks about three thousand years ago are the

806
00:45:53,400 --> 00:45:57,879
Speaker 1: first ones to attribute wisdom to owls by pairing them

807
00:45:57,880 --> 00:46:00,520
Speaker 1: with Athena, who was one of Zeus's waters and a

808
00:46:00,600 --> 00:46:03,760
Speaker 1: goddess of wisdom, and her favorite companion was an owl.

809
00:46:04,239 --> 00:46:07,000
Speaker 1: So that some people say, there you go, that's it.

810
00:46:07,400 --> 00:46:10,800
Speaker 1: Other people say, actually, I wonder if people just looked

811
00:46:10,800 --> 00:46:13,480
Speaker 1: at owls and saw their giant eyes that make them

812
00:46:13,480 --> 00:46:16,880
Speaker 1: look very intelligent and said that is a very intelligent animal,

813
00:46:16,880 --> 00:46:19,760
Speaker 1: And maybe that's actually what gave birth to pairing Athena

814
00:46:19,880 --> 00:46:22,520
Speaker 1: with the owl in the first place. Who knows. Yeah,

815
00:46:22,600 --> 00:46:24,680
Speaker 1: I mean, if you've looked at an owl in the face,

816
00:46:25,239 --> 00:46:28,359
Speaker 1: it feels like they they they are deep thinkers at

817
00:46:28,400 --> 00:46:32,279
Speaker 1: the very least. But owls, as far as birds go,

818
00:46:32,400 --> 00:46:36,800
Speaker 1: are medium smart. Is that fair? Yeah, let's say, not

819
00:46:36,920 --> 00:46:41,200
Speaker 1: super intelligent, not the dumbest B minus students. Maybe sure,

820
00:46:42,600 --> 00:46:45,120
Speaker 1: they're like they're like I was. I was a beast student.

821
00:46:45,200 --> 00:46:48,359
Speaker 1: I would say, oh, yeah, good for you. Where were

822
00:46:48,360 --> 00:46:51,440
Speaker 1: you be minus? I was seized a lot of times.

823
00:46:51,560 --> 00:46:54,239
Speaker 1: And yeah, not until I got to college did I

824
00:46:54,320 --> 00:46:56,880
Speaker 1: really started selling. Yeah. I made as and bs in

825
00:46:56,920 --> 00:47:00,799
Speaker 1: high school generally, Oh wow, man, I looked up to

826
00:47:00,960 --> 00:47:04,719
Speaker 1: people like, you know, you didn't you didn't because I did.

827
00:47:05,440 --> 00:47:07,600
Speaker 1: I would just yeah, I would kind of like hang

828
00:47:07,680 --> 00:47:10,520
Speaker 1: back and watch you from afar creepily in the library

829
00:47:10,600 --> 00:47:15,480
Speaker 1: during lunch. Is that you? Yeah? All right, I never

830
00:47:15,520 --> 00:47:20,000
Speaker 1: knew that was you. That's totally me. Um, yeah, we've

831
00:47:20,000 --> 00:47:22,960
Speaker 1: known each other for way longer than you realize. Um,

832
00:47:23,000 --> 00:47:26,960
Speaker 1: that's very creepy. So it's not just the archaic Greeks

833
00:47:26,960 --> 00:47:30,120
Speaker 1: and us you know alive today that said, you know,

834
00:47:30,239 --> 00:47:32,759
Speaker 1: owls are very wise or there's something about owls. There's

835
00:47:32,800 --> 00:47:35,480
Speaker 1: tons of superstitions around the world. And in fact, the

836
00:47:35,600 --> 00:47:39,040
Speaker 1: Romans said an owl foreshadowed the death of Julius Caesar

837
00:47:39,200 --> 00:47:42,160
Speaker 1: very famously. I didn't see how like maybe it flew

838
00:47:42,200 --> 00:47:45,960
Speaker 1: into the Senate or it said like like Caesar lookal

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Speaker 1: or something, but it's very much associated with the death

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Speaker 1: of Caesar. Yeah, and I think a lot of different

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Speaker 1: cultures have different owl sort of folklore, like if if

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Speaker 1: an owl visit you in a dream, like this might happen.

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Speaker 1: I think different cultures think different things about owls, but

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Speaker 1: I think it's usually like bad luck, right, Yeah, it depends.

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Speaker 1: The Hindu culture says that that the owl has something

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Speaker 1: to do with Lakshmi, the goddess, and so the owl

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Speaker 1: is a symbol of luck. But you know, like apaches

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Speaker 1: Um said that if you dream of an owl, you're

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Speaker 1: probably going to die. Um. Yeah, it's kind of all

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Speaker 1: over the place. And it makes sense that so many

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Speaker 1: different cultures would have owl superstitions is because they've been

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Speaker 1: around for so long and they're spread all over the world,

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Speaker 1: so so many cultures have interacted with owls and just

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Speaker 1: fallen under their spell. I love it. Shunt me as

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Speaker 1: one me too. I got one other thing, Chuck. There

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Speaker 1: are owl cafes in Japan and you can go to

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Speaker 1: them and hang out with owls, and I've done that,

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Speaker 1: and I did that in Tokyo and it's one of

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Speaker 1: the coolest things I've ever done. And upon researching this,

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Speaker 1: I found that you are not supposed to do that.

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Speaker 1: Writing an elephant kind of been in a different way.

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Speaker 1: Like owls are super sociable. They're totally chilled with humans.

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Speaker 1: They're not scared or anything like that, and they're generally

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Speaker 1: treated well. But most owl species are nocturnal, and you're

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Speaker 1: going to the owl cafe during the day in most cases,

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Speaker 1: so they're forcing the owls to You're making the owl

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Speaker 1: stay awake when it otherwise would normally be sleeping. And

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Speaker 1: that's not good for anybody. I got you, So I'm

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Speaker 1: sorry to all the owls. I just wanted to confess

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Speaker 1: that it's very big of you. Thank you. Uh Well,

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Speaker 1: since Chuck said that's very big of me, I say

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Speaker 1: it's time for a listener mail. I'm gonna call this

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Speaker 1: correction on the vasectomes epp uh and a pretty important one. Oh, yeah, yeah, Yeah,

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Speaker 1: I'm glad you're doing this. I know we got this

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Speaker 1: right on the condom episode, but here we go. Hey, guys,

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Speaker 1: in the episode, you compared vasectomes to other birth control uh.

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Speaker 1: And although vasectomes are amazingly effective, I think your statement

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Speaker 1: underestimates the effective effectiveness of other birth controlled methods. You

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Speaker 1: talk about condoms as affect them effective, meaning there's a

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Speaker 1: fifteen percent chance of getting pregnant every time you use

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Speaker 1: a condom. However, birth control effectiveness is calculated by like

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Speaker 1: likelihood getting pregnant over a year using only that method.

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Speaker 1: If there was really a fifteen percent chance getting pregnant

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Speaker 1: every time you used a condom, the compounded chance of

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Speaker 1: getting pregnant over one year would be almost a percent. Uh.

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Speaker 1: I guess that's if you're, you know, living your best life. Sure,

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Speaker 1: such a huge fan of the podcast. As a regent,

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Speaker 1: as recently graduated bioengineer, I couldn't pass up this opportunity

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Speaker 1: to share the knowledge of probability and science on an

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Speaker 1: issue I deeply care about. Thanks for all the amazing

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Speaker 1: shows over the years. That is from Mina and we

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Speaker 1: heard from a lot of people on this and I

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Speaker 1: know that was just sort of a what I call

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Speaker 1: a verbal typo because we know that condoms are. It's

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Speaker 1: more like it's like effective, right. I I was totally

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Speaker 1: seduced by that that status, so I bought it. Fully,

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Speaker 1: I'm not even going to play that's okay. Yeah, we

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Speaker 1: have a episode on condoms where we where we get

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Speaker 1: it right. Yeah. I wonder how many people are like,

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Speaker 1: I'm not using those things anymore because over the course

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Speaker 1: of the year, there's almost a chance of becoming pregnant.

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Speaker 1: Oh I don't know about that. Well, thanks a lot,

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Speaker 1: Mina and everybody else who wrote in. That was a

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Speaker 1: really important one. And Chuck, I'm glad you chose that

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Speaker 1: one for a listener mail. And if you want to

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Speaker 1: be like Mina and tell us something very important, we

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Speaker 1: love that kind of stuff. You can send it to

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