Burrowing Owl - Rattle Snake Call

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UF/IFAS Range Cattle Research and Education Center

8 жыл бұрын

This burrowing owl was filmed at Santa Rosa Ranch in Florida during a flooding event. It is making what is sometimes called the rattle snake call. It is used to warn away unwanted visitors. The almost fledged young was displaced from its burrow by the flooding.
Filmed by Dr. Raoul Boughton
UF/IFAS Range Cattle Research and Education Center
ona@ifas.ufl.edu
Ona, FL

Пікірлер: 21

@Jimmy_CV 2 жыл бұрын

When I lived in Cooper city these guys were like landmines. You would be just walking down the sidewalk with your dog at night and suddenly you are assaulted with a blood curdling screech of an owl burrowed under the sidewalk

@willie123811 Жыл бұрын

There’s still a bunch of them around here

@tmlee123 Жыл бұрын

They are infesting florida now and nothing we can do but to sacrifice pieces of land for them.

@j.j.6535 12 күн бұрын

That's awesome!!! There's a bunch were I live...but out in the sticks not in town

@user-em4wm1wo3y 5 ай бұрын

I usually don't comment, but I have to share this. I was in the woods and needed to crap so I ducked off. Got crozy with my stance, and this devil owl basically did the rest.

@Youneverknow222 10 ай бұрын

Omg he's so precious ❤

@livingintheforest3963 11 ай бұрын

I am listening to this tonight. They’re going crazy out there. Thanks for having us video.

@gilezey 3 жыл бұрын

Quite a scary little dude!

@Ambipie Жыл бұрын

it's like "there's a great big snake next to you, ooga booga booga!"

@razer0072073 2 жыл бұрын

Even scary if it were at night you can't tell if it is a rattle snake or not, but why take that chance?

@b1blazin13 3 ай бұрын

So dang cute wish humans liked animals more instead of need to kill everything & anything they see

@theworthysoul 2 жыл бұрын

Evolution is awesome

@crying_hippy 2 жыл бұрын

How cool, I have a few of these guys who follow me sometimes and I uploaded to channel. I thought it was a baby screech owl learning to screech, guess not Thanks for upload and God Bless

@Mikado8848 3 жыл бұрын

Wow. TOUGH guy.

@ThatgirlisSpicy97 2 жыл бұрын

It's the owl version of Pinky from Friday lmao.

@TheProphetOfThePan Жыл бұрын

Intimidation 100

@KL53986 10 ай бұрын

Gardening hose

@emilyshorts5730 3 жыл бұрын

Crazy how God gave them that trait!!!

@averydart 2 жыл бұрын

It's not that crazy if you know how natural selection and evolution work. They live in burrows (where rattlesnakes are common), so the burrowing owls which had a rattlesnake-sounding call had a better chance at repelling mammalian predators (who know that a rattlesnake rattle is bad news). These burrowing owls with the rattlesnake call died less frequently to mammal predators and were able to make more babies than burrowing owls that DIDN'T have rattlesnake calls. Is it still cool? For sure. But they weren't "given" that trait by any godlike figure. The trait was the result of natural selection and evolution.

@QuintonRC23 2 жыл бұрын

@@averydart give it a rest bro

@Nemo66577 2 ай бұрын

@@averydart; People love to diminish or poo-poo evolution when they don’t understand it. But they sure don’t mind taking antibiotics when they get sick; ie.., they don’t mind benefiting from evolution. 🤣🙄