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Oh great, now I’m over here googling pictures of various owl feet 😂

Given what I’ve seen, I’m also gonna go with my neighborhood buddy, GHO

So floof

What an adorable perfect family 🥰

Nice! Thank you

Ooooh, must be someone from an instance I don’t federate with because I don’t see another comment on this thread. Lemmy is weird

Aww, owl kissy faces 💕

And turns out they mate for life, so that’s an owl married couple.

https://www.chesapeakebay.net/discover/field-guide/entry/barred-owl#:~:text=Barred owls are monogamous and,runs from December through March.

I’m thrilled with Vanessa Kirby. That’s exciting.

“the small animals can cool their internal temperature by 10°C to 30°C. This slows their metabolism by as much as 95% and protects them from starvation”

Holy crap, that’s insane!

I recently learned that part of birds’ winter survival strategy is to just straight up burn fat by shivering to generate heat. And that they eat and burn a huge number of calories (in bird terms) in a single cold day to be able to do that. It’s why I’m extra vigilant about my bird feeders when it gets extra cold up here in New England.

https://swibirds.org/blog/birds-in-cold

I can imagine having that extra chonk padding in winter allows the owls some margin of safety, in case they struggle to find enough calories in the moment when the weather gets really nasty.

Yeah my life doesn’t leave me a lot of room for creating posts. I know how much work that takes.

But I’m good at running my mouth, so I try to comment these days because I know that engagement drives engagement. (I have no idea what drives post visibility on Lemmy though. Is there an algorithm here?)

I’m not working tomorrow, so I’ll have time to read some research! But I’ll never argue with funny adorable owl pics of any sort either haha