The Eyes of an Owl
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🗓️ 19 July 2025
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| 0:00.0 | This is bird note. |
| 0:03.0 | Woo! |
| 0:04.0 | Woo! |
| 0:05.0 | Woo! |
| 0:06.0 | Woo! |
| 0:07.0 | Woo! |
| 0:08.0 | Woo! |
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| 0:10.0 | Woo! |
| 0:11.0 | An owl's gaze is uniquely penetrating. |
| 0:15.0 | Peer into an owl's face. |
| 0:17.0 | There's something almost human about its large, forward-facing eyes. Just how big are those |
| 0:23.5 | eyes? They are astonishingly large in proportion to the size of the owl's head. A great gray owl, |
| 0:30.4 | which stands two feet tall and weighs two and a half pounds, has eyes larger than those of most |
| 0:35.8 | humans. Mm-hmm. Mm eyes may look human, their capabilities are superhuman. |
| 0:50.3 | Enormous eyes help owls to see in near darkness. An owl's retinal anatomy is similar to that of cats, |
| 0:58.1 | which rival owls in seeing in dim light. Owls see well in daylight, too, but their color vision is probably |
| 1:05.2 | very limited, and the evolution of such large eyes has required a behavioral compromise. |
| 1:11.7 | An owl's eyes are fixed in their so the bird must rotate its neck to look around. |
| 1:18.1 | One ornithologist has described owl's heads as little more than brains with raptorial beaks |
| 1:24.0 | and the largest possible eyes and ears attached. |
| 1:31.3 | To see a photo of this bird and all we feature on the show, |
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