Owls like to hide and sleep among the leaves during the day, and wait until nightfall to forage. Since owls' eyes are in the front of their heads, not on the sides like other birds, they have to keep turning their heads when they want to see what's going on around them.

Owls mainly eat rodents, but also eat insects, birds, lizards, fish and other animals. They all have the habit of spitting out "food pills".They often swallow the food whole, and collect the indigestible bones, feathers, hair, chitin and other residues in the food into small groups and spit it out through the esophagus.

Once the owl has determined the location of its prey, it will strike quickly. The feathers of owls are very soft, so the frequency of sound waves produced by owls in flight is less than 1 kilohertz, and ordinary mammalian ears cannot perceive such low frequencies. Such a silent attack makes the owl's attack more "blitzkrieg".

When an owl pounces on its prey, its hearing still plays a role in positioning. It can continuously adjust the direction of the attack according to the noise generated by the movement of the prey, and finally claws out, which is effective in one fell swoop.

An owl is an animal that recognizes its owner very well, especially an owl raised by people. It treats the breeder as a mother and only eats the food that the person feeds it. If you really keep an owl, it will be very sticky. Larger owl species can live for about 30 years, and small owls can live for about ten years.

For owls, they are often an animal that haunts at night, so they need to rely on their own eyes to distinguish the surrounding scenes, which is why their night vision is very strong.

Owls are colorblind and the only bird that cannot distinguish colors. Except for some birds that are used to night life, such as owls, because there are no cone cells in the retina and cannot recognize colors, many birds have a sense of color.

Of course, their own eyeball structure is different from that of normal animals. Their eyeballs are vascular, and they can only feel weak light. When the moonlight reflects on their eyeballs at night, they can use their ability to see .

Also, owls have very bright eyes. They have a special reflective film on their eyeballs that can reflect light on the bodies of other species, so that we will find that there is special light in their eyeballs when we look.

In order to protect owls, some institutions will also artificially raise owls. Let's learn about raising owls.

1. Residence

To raise owls, you need to prepare a tripod for the owl. And the prepared tripod should be wrapped with a soft cloth to prevent injury to the owl's claws.

The ambient light should be dark, and the cage should be divided into a bracket-type cage. The surface of the cage should be surrounded by something to ensure smooth air and place it in a quiet place. If possible, try to give a natural-like space. 

2. Food

In terms of food, small owls eat small insects, such as mealworms, grasshoppers, locusts, etc., and large and medium-sized owls need to feed some healthy mouse meat. When feeding, you can put it in the bird cage, and throw the mealworms into the bowl (separately from the water).

Newly adopted, the owl probably won't eat or drink at first. It needs to be artificially fed with water, and it will eat on its own in two or three days.

3. Deworming

During the feeding process, it is often necessary to check whether there are lice, and if so, buy some medicine to remove feather lice, to prevent the owl from being bitten by diseases, and it is also very important to deworm the owl regularly.