Wild inside: Great Grey Owl

Discovery

BBC

Science

4.3 • 1.2K Ratings

🗓️ 28 November 2022

⏱️ 28 minutes

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Summary

One of the world’s large owls by length, the Great Grey Owl is an enigmatic predator of coniferous forests close to the Arctic tundra. It's most often seen hunting around dawn and dusk, when it perches silently at the edges of clearings. But as Prof Ben Garrod and Dr Jess French delve deep inside to understand its true secret to survival, they find the deep feathery coat belies a deceptively small head and body that‘s evolved unbelievably powerful abilities to silently detect and ambush unsuspecting prey.

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0:39.7	Slightly small one this time.
0:41.0	I know, it's so light.
0:43.0	So wrapped in a bag.
0:44.0	It's so little.
0:45.0	I think size might be deceptive for this one.
0:48.4	I think it's going to spread out.
0:51.6	Oh, it's actually quite big.
0:52.8	It was just really light.
0:54.9	It's weight is certainly deceptive, for it's in fact one of the largest predators of the night
1:00.1	sky.
1:00.9	At just over two foot tall and with a wingspan of extraordinary proportions,
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