Thursday, May 03, 2012
Aptronym #3
Good aptronyms, like celebrity deaths, come in threes. After spotting two yesterday, I was hoping for another one. Sure enough!
Better pictures here. The owls are certainly cute little critters. They won't be so cute when they grow up to eviscerate mice and squirrels, but that's Nature.
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And another example of a hopelessly cute baby that will grow up to be a fearsome predator. Note how the tiny critter is already able to tune its chromatophores to match the background!
The nine baby owlets that arrived at WSU Veterinary Teaching Hospital a couple weeks ago – originally thought to be great horned owls – are actually of the screech variety.
The hospital has not seen a baby screech owl for at least 10 years. Due to the hospital’s unfamiliarity with screech owls, workers there reached out to owl experts across the nation for insight about what kind of owlets they had in their custody. The “keen eye” of two bird authorities located in the Midwest caused Nickol Finch, who oversees the hospital’s Raptor Rehabilitation Center, to conclude that they were screeches.
Better pictures here. The owls are certainly cute little critters. They won't be so cute when they grow up to eviscerate mice and squirrels, but that's Nature.
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And another example of a hopelessly cute baby that will grow up to be a fearsome predator. Note how the tiny critter is already able to tune its chromatophores to match the background!
Labels: Aptronym Alert
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