owl strike captured

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This is one of those videos that's pinballing its way around the Internet.

It shows an Asian eagle-owl, in the genus Bubo closely related to our own great horned owl, making a strike, in slow motion, the equivalent of 1,000 frames a second.

Silent wing beats. Talons raised. Fixed stare. Oh, those yellow-orange eyes. The color of fire. Fierce.

I've been grabbed by a great horned owl. Intense. Painful. But of course, I lived to tell about it. If I were a mouse, I'd be in rodent heaven, which is somewhere near cat heaven but don't tell your tabby.

Click here for video: Owl strike.


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