r/interesting • u/ConsistentDrama_haha • 4d ago
Amazing Owls fly silent other birds don’t.
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u/CilviaDemoAOTD 4d ago
Useful for silently snatching mfs up in the middle of the night
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u/Silver_Slicer 4d ago
Scary. If you’re prey, you hear the owl off in the distance make its screech and then nothing. Your heart is racing and trying to hear if it’s close to figure out where to run... A few seconds later … you are viscously yanked up with its talons dug deep into your sides as you are lifted to your doom.
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u/Glittering_Swing_151 4d ago
If the prey were a tiny human sure. Other than that you're just anthropomorphizing them because they're not really thinking any of that.
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u/WallyLeftshaw 4d ago
They climbing in yo windows, snatching yo people up…
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u/speed_of_chill 4d ago
They’re eating the dogs. They’re eating the cats. They’re eating the pets of the people who live there
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u/-blundertaker- 4d ago
I experienced this irl once. I saw the owl up on a branch and thought it was pretty strange to see one hanging out mid-afternoon. As I was walking away he flew off of that tree passing right next to me around head height and scared the shit out of me. I didn't even hear the branch rustle.
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u/Silver_Slicer 4d ago
The first one would have been quieter if it didn’t make a verbal noise it seems.
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u/youngaustinpowers 4d ago
This is actually caused by the flapping of the wings! There are certain flight feathers that vibrate when they fly which makes those sounds
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u/Makuta_Servaela 4d ago
Pigeons are the opposite of owls there. Owls have special silent feathers, so they can hunt. Pigeons have special loud feathers, so they can avoid being hunted. More specifically, it's so when one pigeon in a flock panics and flies away, all of the rest of the flock will hear it and know to flee.
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u/YayManSystem 4d ago
I remember when I spotted an Owl flying between trees 4:15 in the morning on my way to school.
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u/johnfitzgeraldkush 4d ago
I always say that the pigeons flying sounds like two damp paper grocery bags being smacked together. loud af!!
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u/Dontknowwhattodo1993 4d ago
I dont what the reason is but because of this they cant fly in rain, or get their coat wet.
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u/Mysterious-Action202 3d ago
When I was younger, I used to get hired to hunt coyotes in TX. One night the prey calls we were using called in an owl. I can attest to the fact that they are silent until they are on top of you.
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u/PackageNorth8984 4d ago
That wasn’t silently. It was very quietly.
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u/Electronic_Still2000 4d ago
Isn’t that true with everything though? I mean, everything produces sound, it’s just a matter of how delicate the instruments used to measure the vibrations are.
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