{"id":1370,"date":"2015-02-18T12:24:00","date_gmt":"2015-02-17T23:24:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.waikato.ac.nz\/bioblog\/2015\/02\/true_facts_about_owls\/"},"modified":"2018-09-20T09:52:45","modified_gmt":"2018-09-19T21:52:45","slug":"true-facts-about-owls","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.waikato.ac.nz\/bioblog\/2015\/02\/true-facts-about-owls\/","title":{"rendered":"true facts about owls"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A lot of my friends seem to like owls, if their tendency to post photos of adorable fluffy feathered faces on Facebook is anything to go by. I rather like them too; we live close to a gully &amp; it&#8217;s lovely hearing the <a href=\"http:\/\/nzbirdsonline.org.nz\/species\/morepork\">moreporks <\/a>calling at night. Once or twice one has sat in a tree just outside our window &#8211; very special!<\/p>\n<p>Of course, behind the beauty lies a fierce, predatory nature, and that is well captured (in a most humorous way) in <a href=\"http:\/\/youtu.be\/XeFxdkaFzRA\">this video<\/a> from the wonderful &#8216;True Facts&#8217; series:<\/p>\n<div class=\"video-container\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"True Facts About The Owl\" width=\"1170\" height=\"658\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/XeFxdkaFzRA?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p>I do not remember reading any fairy tales involving the ripping off of small persons&#8217; faces by an owl. 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