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That’s Not a Rattlesnake… It’s an Owl!
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Күн бұрынWhen living underground leaves them vulnerable to attack, burrowing owls have a trick up their sleeve-they’ve developed the ability to mimic rattlesnake sounds that scare off predators!
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@akumaking1 3 жыл бұрын
Let's give a hoot for this family of raptors!
@binair0 3 жыл бұрын
hoot!
@heiressgrey 3 жыл бұрын
Hoot! Burrowing owls are actually diurnal! I just got back from helping a local conservation organization construct artificial burrows for the burrowing owls. If you’re in central AZ, check out Wild at Heart Raptors.
@ryanryan3220 3 жыл бұрын
Burrowing Owl hisses Predator: Ah Snek!
@jamesharmer9293 3 жыл бұрын
Michael's hair just keeps getting more and more luxuriant ...
@JS-bp1wp 3 жыл бұрын
Yes his hair looks luxuriant and soft and ... not that I'm obsessed with Michael. No. I just have an enormous interest in him.
@bland9876 3 жыл бұрын
He reminds me of my mexican grandpa in old photos where he had a mullet
@kevinconrad6156 3 жыл бұрын
They live year round in Arizona as well.
@ohno4458 3 жыл бұрын
theres a little park in gilbert az that has some little artificial burrows that are sometimes filled with owls
@scatterbrain3d 3 жыл бұрын
@@ohno4458 I’m curious if you’re referring to the riparian next to the southeast regional library! I’ve definitely seen burrowing owls scampering about, but not so much in recent years though😕
@ohno4458 3 жыл бұрын
@@scatterbrain3d i was actually planning on going there today but no i wasnt talking abt that. theres a small park with little black tubes sticking out of the ground as burrows for the owls. its called zanjero park if you want to check it out.
@fresco4500 3 жыл бұрын
California too
@im.not.typical91 3 жыл бұрын
Ive seen them near westgate
@muffinberg7960 3 жыл бұрын
that owl's rattle was much much scarier than the rattle snake's.
@patrickmccurry1563 3 жыл бұрын
It had an odd screeching hint to it compared to the chkchkchk of the snake, IMO.
@glenngriffon8032 3 жыл бұрын
Owl: I am hissing so people will think I am venomous and dangerous. Owl friend: Uhh you're not venomous though. Owl: Shhhhh they don't know that.
@mattgray666 3 жыл бұрын
Back when I was a little girl, I was out exploring the Florida scrub forests around my neighborhood when I heard what I thought was a rattlesnake. Didn't even investigate, noped the hell out. To think I could have been tricked by an owl...
@CallMeMimi27 3 жыл бұрын
still, if it was an owl it wanted to be left alone, and thus you should not bother them
@twinkleandsparkle9658 3 жыл бұрын
Little wol with loooooong legs, pretending to be a danger noodle...BEST BIRB THAT I HAVE SEEN TODAY!
@JiveDadson 3 жыл бұрын
Other owls don't have a pit to hiss in.
@JS-bp1wp 3 жыл бұрын
Adorbs
@WintrBorn 3 жыл бұрын
Or a burrow to scream it out of?
@HaruTheGyaru 3 жыл бұрын
Mimicry is one of my favorite biology topics!
@angelitabecerra 3 жыл бұрын
"Hoot" is a novel set in Florida where first one and then two teenagers fight against a development company to save a field that is full of these endangered burrowing owls. I highly recommend it
@barrettt8661 3 жыл бұрын
Yeah I've read all that guys books other good ones are scat and flush
@andrew24601 3 жыл бұрын
“You don’t often hear the words bird and burrough in the same sentence” [laughs in NYC]
@k-panga 3 жыл бұрын
This owls here in Argentina are commonly called “Búho vizcachero” (búho= owl) as they live in burrows and the Vizcacha is a large rodent that constructs burrows. It’s very common to find them in golf courses and sometimes there are like 4 one besides the other.
@jesipohl6717 3 жыл бұрын
@John Smith you too John! Good Job...
@guts9160 2 жыл бұрын
Fun fact the people of argentina have big noses
@nfc14g 3 жыл бұрын
Just another reason to love my favorite animal! They are also the only silent flyer
@fallen_leaves1674 3 жыл бұрын
Almost all Strigiformes are silent fliers, not just Athene Cuniculaira.
@TwiStedTentom 3 жыл бұрын
"Ground dwelling predators" Mud won't save you from them, Arnold.
@sirBrouwer 3 жыл бұрын
shot up football head, Helga Pataki
@CallMeMimi27 3 жыл бұрын
@@sirBrouwer i understood that reference
@dafttool 3 жыл бұрын
I’ve heard a cicada in dead leaves that sounded exactly like a rattlesnake🤔
@pierreabbat6157 3 жыл бұрын
If the owl lives in a rabbit's burrow, as the species name indicates, the sound is a warrening signal.
@LordBrittish 3 жыл бұрын
I saw one try to snatch up a jackalope the other day. Oh boy, was that a sight!
@masterimbecile 3 жыл бұрын
Those huge eyes and the cocked head in the thumbnail!! I just can't even with these owls!!!
@rippertrain 3 жыл бұрын
Cant even what?
@jeroenjager8064 3 жыл бұрын
I saw this owl on 'Tiny Creatures' on Netflix, a surprisingly cute show.
@melvinshine9841 3 жыл бұрын
That owl in the thumbnail looked like it saw the video title and said, "Oh, is it now?!"
@thefeatheredfrontiersman8135 3 жыл бұрын
That's so adorable!
@Rubrickety 3 жыл бұрын
I took your suggestion and asked a squirrel. No answer so far.
@stevenutter3614 3 жыл бұрын
Any word yet?
@Rubrickety 3 жыл бұрын
@@stevenutter3614 Nope. It's getting cold out here.
@ollieworth7341 3 жыл бұрын
Any luck yet? Im rooting for you chief
@Brandonien 3 жыл бұрын
Just want to say thank you for presenting these videos for so many years.
@joesickler5888 3 жыл бұрын
These guys. I remember them always being at bus stops as a kid. They are super territorial and mean.
@lyndsaybrown8471 3 жыл бұрын
Think you're safe in a bunker? OWL!
@mal2ksc 3 жыл бұрын
I'm just here for the Dead Milkmen references that surely must be coming. _I like you, Stuart. You're not like the other kids, here in the trailer park._
@944play 3 жыл бұрын
I was about 60% sure that the Milkmen made up the Burrow Owl until today.
@Malusdarkblades11 3 жыл бұрын
2:25 new meme suprised owl face :D
@garethtudor836 3 жыл бұрын
So: cute as hell, and sneaky as hell. No wonder I love their feathery little selves
@Rien-- 3 жыл бұрын
stop hiding the fact that flamingos pee on their legs to cool themselves off
@MrUranium238 3 жыл бұрын
I too do that
@JS-bp1wp 3 жыл бұрын
Oh no, tmi, ba ha ha
@timsullivan4566 3 жыл бұрын
Okay, so the owlets hissing is effective, but hootaught them this?
@JS-bp1wp 3 жыл бұрын
Oh u clever Timg
@ericgraham5201 3 жыл бұрын
Beautiful owls, I have seen them in Arizona and Florida.
@rgbii2 3 жыл бұрын
Seems like a good technique, except when the intruder is a real rattlesnake :)
@MrUranium238 3 жыл бұрын
I'm going to make this noise at the office , so no one harass me
@edemcudjoe 3 жыл бұрын
😂😂 good one
@limiv5272 3 жыл бұрын
HR might not be too impressed...
@rockinbobokkin7831 3 жыл бұрын
Grew up with these hilarious little angry bois in Florida. I find them to be tremendously entertaining.
@tallasianchick 3 жыл бұрын
someone better make a sample with that owl screech
@joewilson5452 3 жыл бұрын
I'm from the Antelope Valley in southern California and we have burrowing owls. I've never heard them hiss.
@nj586 3 жыл бұрын
What happens if a real rattlesnake comes across this owl's sound? Can they tell?
@crablessinbaltimore 3 жыл бұрын
imposter
@Mistersky46 3 жыл бұрын
Ejected
@fallen_leaves1674 3 жыл бұрын
owl not imposter
@alinconstantintanasa8207 3 жыл бұрын
There's always something new with owls
@danieladam6588 3 жыл бұрын
“It’s not an owl.” - The Fourth Kind
@glbernini0 3 жыл бұрын
Burrowing owls are squatters waving an empty gun at the real homeowners!
@FupaDoncic 3 жыл бұрын
Scream so loud you sound like a rattlesnake. That’s METAL AF
@robbabcock_ 3 жыл бұрын
Those owls are crafty!😂
@twocvbloke 3 жыл бұрын
Yeah, it wants you to think it's an owl that's hissing, but it's probably just an angry banana wanting some alone time... :P
@Tbehartoo 3 жыл бұрын
This was so cool! I also appreciate you adding the closed captioning. Thank you
@mrcr33py 3 жыл бұрын
In Cape Coral, Florida they are protected and you can see their burrows throughout the city's neighborhoods.
@xerofelix7090 3 жыл бұрын
Back home we had a family barn owls living in our big bay trees in our backyard. We could hear their mating “calls” at night one summer and got to hear them raising their babies. It’s was really cute!
@nahomycortezofficial 3 жыл бұрын
I keep hearing this noises in daylight at the top of my trees
@girl.distressed 3 жыл бұрын
Burrowing owls are everywhere where I live!
@galaxyfigure4520 3 жыл бұрын
Sees thumb nail: owl Title: That's not a Rattlesnake... It's an Owl! Me: what that doesn't even look close to a rattlesnake... w h a t
@g.seangourlay2593 3 жыл бұрын
Exaptation: Its like an ad-free adaptation
@koushikragunatha3368 3 жыл бұрын
Imagine what happens when rattle snake finds out that the owl is mimicking it
@nunyobidniz 3 жыл бұрын
That Ground Squirrel looks an awful lot like a gopher…
@retiredteacher6289 3 жыл бұрын
I live in southern Colorado with rattlesnakes. Around here the rattlesnakes often hiss first before they rattle. Their hiss is VERY loud. It sounds like a hole in a truck tire with 75psi. Even before that they the give a very quick short faint rattle just to say Hi. It depends on how close you are and whether the see or hear you coming. I am usually warned first by the cottontail rabbits. If there is rattlesnake in the yard a rabbit will sit up with ears straight up and stare at the snake without moving. Once a rattlesnake coiled in a shady spot near a rabbit nest with babies. The mother rabbit kept lunging and feinting at the snake. The back of and lunge again a bit closer. At one point she got within a foot, easily in striking distance but the snake just lay there watching. After about an hour it got tired of the harassment and crawled away. I don't know why they hiss - maybe so critters will think they are an owl and leave them alone.
@justsomepersononyoutube9271 3 жыл бұрын
Ikr
@AllDayBikes 3 жыл бұрын
The Lyer Bird comes to mind
@hatsuharuboi 3 жыл бұрын
This owl is very common in northeast Brazil... I see them often at sunset when they leave they burrows to hunt
@gnetkuji 3 жыл бұрын
Makes me wonder if the only group that consistently calls the owl's bluff are the rattlesnakes.
@TheCasualAngler 3 жыл бұрын
i enjoyed this . makes me wanna go watch some zefank though lol
@garethtudor836 3 жыл бұрын
Go with your heart
@Black-Swan-007 3 жыл бұрын
Snake Discovery taught me about batesian mimicry! :D
@Im_a_Bananatree 3 жыл бұрын
Little 🦉
@dem0nchild610 3 жыл бұрын
He's adorable I would love to peek in a burrow and see him
@schopenhauer5427 3 жыл бұрын
I was raised in the country with lots of burrowing owls in the area where I used to play as a kid, and maybe for being so using to hearing them I don't think they sound like a rattlesnake at all lol
@ronkirk5099 3 жыл бұрын
Another example of mimicry that makes the study of nature so interesting. The complex web of life. Suggested read for young adults: Carl Hiaasen's book "Hoot".
@seastarcrunchies 3 жыл бұрын
We have them up here in Canada too! My local zoo breeds them they were locally endangered but I don't think they are anymore...
@Markle2k 3 жыл бұрын
"Although some can be found farther West and North." Yeah, like coastal California and quite a bit of the Southern desert Southwest and most of Northern and Central Mexico.
@edebs6243 3 жыл бұрын
Great, now I have the Dead Milkmen's 'Stuart' earworm..
@Adiscretefirm 3 жыл бұрын
In Florida they aren't stealing them from desert tortoises, but from gopher tortoises.
@Toastmaster_5000 3 жыл бұрын
I wasn't aware burrowing owls was a thing. Seems like Futurama was onto something, with their owl infestations
@praveenb9048 3 жыл бұрын
What if a rattlesnake tries to take over the owls burrow? Or vice versa? An oops moment, surely?
@Aaron-P 3 жыл бұрын
You know that Jonny Wurster kid, the kid that delivers papers in the neighborhood? He's a fine kid. Some of the neighbors say he smokes crack, but I don't believe it. Anyway, for his tenth birthday, all he wanted was a burrow owl. Kept bugging his old man. "Dad, get me a burrow owl. I'll never ask for anything else as long as I live." So the guy breaks down and buys him a burrow owl. Anyway, 10:30, the other night, I go out in my yard, and there's the Wurster kid, looking up in the tree. I say, "What are you looking for?" He says, "I'm looking for my burrow owl." I say, "Jumping Jesus on a pogo stick! Everybody knows the burrow owl lives in a hole in the ground! Why the hell do you think they call it a burrow owl, anyway?!!"
@rockets4kids 3 жыл бұрын
You know what, Aaron P, I LIKE YOU. You're not like the other people, here, in the trailer park.
@Aaron-P 3 жыл бұрын
@@rockets4kids 😉😉😉 you seem like a fine person to kick back a cool Coors 16-ouncer with. DFTBA
@crablessinbaltimore 3 жыл бұрын
i would die for the burrowing owl
@marshmallowcoolboy5308 3 жыл бұрын
Look at the animals nose. Do you see a head? I can't unsee it.
@KahokoHinoEEVEE 3 жыл бұрын
It’s Digger!
@beastcarleeto707 3 жыл бұрын
*sees thumbnail and reads caption* Nah pretty sure that's a rattlesnake
@pundi2524 3 жыл бұрын
Sign: Acoustic Mimicry My Brain: Autistic Mimicry Me: wait what??
@urbannanni5864 3 жыл бұрын
There is a large bunch of them living on the campus of California State University in Bakersfield.
@chrisjackson2821 3 жыл бұрын
Now I want to reread Hoot
@jonathanblanny7954 3 жыл бұрын
They even have them in San Jose california
@anarchyantz1564 3 жыл бұрын
Fun fact. Apparently more and more rattlesnakes are being found in the wild sans rattle and scientists believe it is being evolved out.
@HECKproductions 3 жыл бұрын
thats all fine and well until some suicidal predator comes along and is like not what i expected but thats ok
@PrateekVarshney_PV 3 жыл бұрын
Exaptation! Nice
@windhelmguard5295 3 жыл бұрын
you'd think other mimicking birds would have figured out similar strats, parrots and ravens seem smart enough to pull it off.
@user-cx9nc4pj8w 3 жыл бұрын
they probably are, but rattlesnakes don't live where they do, and this trick would only work in a burrow, where rattlesnakes could live and you can see it's not seen to be a harmless owl.
@windhelmguard5295 3 жыл бұрын
@@user-cx9nc4pj8w i mean there are plenty of deadly snakes that live in trees too, i guess ravens don't encounter snakes much, but parrots probably do.
@NajwaLaylah 3 жыл бұрын
Now I wonder if some cats take advantage of this confusion, as well.
@danielcline7413 3 жыл бұрын
I once worked at a raptor center in pueblo colo and one summer we ended up with 11 orphaned great horned owls in the flight cage all learning how to fly owls have down on the surface of their feathers making them silent flyers the lesson to be learned here is never get in a flight cage with 11 baby owls unless your really dedicated !
@wesp9020 3 жыл бұрын
Ok that may help for the wolves but what about the badgers? That rattles like a dinner bell to them.
@gretasimmons8987 3 жыл бұрын
A wise bird 😆🤣😂
@ioo3761 3 жыл бұрын
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@binair0 3 жыл бұрын
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@ambrilyn4623 3 жыл бұрын
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@thedragioyt2132 3 жыл бұрын
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@starproduction5584 3 жыл бұрын
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@rikihernandez4357 3 жыл бұрын
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@badsmilesorrisocattivo 3 жыл бұрын
1:20 *pokemon* *noises*
@hiimjustin8826 3 жыл бұрын
That was a really interesting video! I wish it was longer though because I still had lots of questions :)
@mexicanteixeira 3 жыл бұрын
You look like a jazz musician man
@orhanemreciftci4505 3 жыл бұрын
Hmm i am starting to think that all animal that has nerves can have ideas
@THERANDYBUNNY 3 жыл бұрын
We have then live on aruba aswell
@minorcek 3 жыл бұрын
I always hear hooo hoooo hooo and then will see a huge bird with a huge wingspan quietly gliding through the night sky.. Here in Arizona, we have such diversity. We have everything from desert to snow and all the creature in between. There has been an invasive species that been introduced here called the California Migrant. They've become more and more common. You can spot them by their tell tale 'California is so much better than Arizona, that's why I moved here'
@CalebKallimanis-le4zz 3 жыл бұрын
Please do a video on the evolution of cacti
@Gjoufi 3 жыл бұрын
So this is similar to when a cheetah pup looks like a honey badger? One trait reused to mimic something dangerous?
@Kaygovegan 3 жыл бұрын
Of course it's in Florida
@Madymoving 3 жыл бұрын
Best pet I ever got, burrowing owls are awsome.
@brendakrieger7000 3 жыл бұрын
Cute🦉
@UnsaltedCashew38 3 жыл бұрын
I would've liked a more thorough analysis on WHY they live underground vs in trees like all other birds. The only facts the video shared was (1) lives underground (2) hisses and we don't know how or why.
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