Barn owls come in three colors, a tawny brown, a mix of brown a white, and all white. It didn’t make sense to researchers how a white owl could be a successful nighttime hunter…but they are.

image: Karen Arnold, Pixabay

If you need to learn more! https://phys.org/news/2019-09-barn-owls-moonlight-stun-prey.html

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