on owls

Aw man, are owls ever cool! For instance, one of my nursing cohorts informed me the other day that a barn owl's ears are set asymmetrically to help the owl triangulate sounds, which is how it hunts at night. WHOA! Another totally awesome thing about owls is that they can eat up to 1,000 rodents per year. GROSS! And after they eat them sometimes they vomit them up and young biology students can dissect their pellets. COOL! 

As a matter of fact, I happened to be perusing the Urban Outfitters website and came across owl pellets for sale! In the gift section! WEIRD! Apparently for $8 you get a pellet, 2 dissecting sticks and a "bone chart" to help identify the dead rodent. If only I had $8...