That’s Not a Rattlesnake… It’s an Owl!

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When 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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@ryanryan3220 3 года назад

Burrowing Owl hisses Predator: Ah Snek!

@akumaking1 3 года назад

Let's give a hoot for this family of raptors!

@binair0 3 года назад

hoot!

@heiressgrey 3 года назад

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.

@muffinberg7960 3 года назад

that owl's rattle was much much scarier than the rattle snake's.

@patrickmccurry1563 3 года назад

It had an odd screeching hint to it compared to the chkchkchk of the snake, IMO.

@jamesharmer9293 3 года назад

Michael's hair just keeps getting more and more luxuriant ...

@JS-bp1wp 3 года назад

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 года назад

He reminds me of my mexican grandpa in old photos where he had a mullet

@mattgray666 3 года назад

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 года назад

still, if it was an owl it wanted to be left alone, and thus you should not bother them

@kevinconrad6156 3 года назад

They live year round in Arizona as well.

@ohno4458 3 года назад

theres a little park in gilbert az that has some little artificial burrows that are sometimes filled with owls

@scatterbrain3d 3 года назад

@@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 года назад

@@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 года назад

California too

@im.not.typical91 3 года назад

Ive seen them near westgate

@glenngriffon8032 3 года назад

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.

@angelitabecerra 3 года назад

"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 года назад

Yeah I've read all that guys books other good ones are scat and flush

@k-panga 3 года назад

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 года назад

@John Smith you too John! Good Job...

@guts9160 Год назад

Fun fact the people of argentina have big noses

@HaruTheGyaru 3 года назад

Mimicry is one of my favorite biology topics!

@TwiStedTentom 3 года назад

"Ground dwelling predators" Mud won't save you from them, Arnold.

@sirBrouwer 3 года назад

shot up football head, Helga Pataki

@CallMeMimi27 3 года назад

@@sirBrouwer i understood that reference

@JiveDadson 3 года назад

Other owls don't have a pit to hiss in.

@JS-bp1wp 3 года назад

Adorbs

@WintrBorn 3 года назад

Or a burrow to scream it out of?

@andrew24601 3 года назад

“You don’t often hear the words bird and burrough in the same sentence” [laughs in NYC]

@twinkleandsparkle9658 3 года назад

Little wol with loooooong legs, pretending to be a danger noodle...BEST BIRB THAT I HAVE SEEN TODAY!

@nfc14g 3 года назад

Just another reason to love my favorite animal! They are also the only silent flyer

@fallen_leaves1674 3 года назад

Almost all Strigiformes are silent fliers, not just Athene Cuniculaira.

@dafttool 3 года назад

I’ve heard a cicada in dead leaves that sounded exactly like a rattlesnake🤔

@pierreabbat6157 3 года назад

If the owl lives in a rabbit's burrow, as the species name indicates, the sound is a warrening signal.

@jeroenjager8064 3 года назад

I saw this owl on 'Tiny Creatures' on Netflix, a surprisingly cute show.

@LordBrittish 3 года назад

I saw one try to snatch up a jackalope the other day. Oh boy, was that a sight!

@joesickler5888 3 года назад

These guys. I remember them always being at bus stops as a kid. They are super territorial and mean.

@masterimbecile 3 года назад

Those huge eyes and the cocked head in the thumbnail!! I just can't even with these owls!!!

@rippertrain 3 года назад

Cant even what?

@melvinshine9841 3 года назад

That owl in the thumbnail looked like it saw the video title and said, "Oh, is it now?!"

@Brandonien 3 года назад

Just want to say thank you for presenting these videos for so many years.

@mrcr33py 3 года назад

In Cape Coral, Florida they are protected and you can see their burrows throughout the city's neighborhoods.

@Malusdarkblades11 3 года назад

2:25 new meme suprised owl face :D

@garethtudor836 3 года назад

So: cute as hell, and sneaky as hell. No wonder I love their feathery little selves

@MrUranium238 3 года назад

I'm going to make this noise at the office , so no one harass me

@edemcudjoe 3 года назад

😂😂 good one

@limiv5272 3 года назад

HR might not be too impressed...

@joewilson5452 3 года назад

I'm from the Antelope Valley in southern California and we have burrowing owls. I've never heard them hiss.

@thefeatheredfrontiersman8135 3 года назад

That's so adorable!

@Rien-- 3 года назад

stop hiding the fact that flamingos pee on their legs to cool themselves off

@MrUranium238 3 года назад

I too do that

@JS-bp1wp 3 года назад

Oh no, tmi, ba ha ha

@Tbehartoo 3 года назад

This was so cool! I also appreciate you adding the closed captioning. Thank you

@lyndsaybrown8471 3 года назад

Think you're safe in a bunker? OWL!

@tallasianchick 3 года назад

someone better make a sample with that owl screech

@Rubrickety 3 года назад

I took your suggestion and asked a squirrel. No answer so far.

@stevenutter3614 3 года назад

Any word yet?

@Rubrickety 3 года назад

@@stevenutter3614 Nope. It's getting cold out here.

@ollieworth7341 3 года назад

Any luck yet? Im rooting for you chief

@rockinbobokkin7831 3 года назад

Grew up with these hilarious little angry bois in Florida. I find them to be tremendously entertaining.

@alinconstantintanasa8207 3 года назад

There's always something new with owls

@mal2ksc 3 года назад

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 года назад

I was about 60% sure that the Milkmen made up the Burrow Owl until today.

@ericgraham5201 3 года назад

Beautiful owls, I have seen them in Arizona and Florida.

@glbernini0 3 года назад

Burrowing owls are squatters waving an empty gun at the real homeowners!

@hatsuharuboi 3 года назад

This owl is very common in northeast Brazil... I see them often at sunset when they leave they burrows to hunt

@danieladam6588 3 года назад

“It’s not an owl.” - The Fourth Kind

@ronkirk5099 3 года назад

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".

@FupaDoncic 3 года назад

Scream so loud you sound like a rattlesnake. That’s METAL AF

@rgbii2 3 года назад

Seems like a good technique, except when the intruder is a real rattlesnake :)

@xerofelix7090 3 года назад

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!

@timsullivan4566 3 года назад

Okay, so the owlets hissing is effective, but hootaught them this?

@JS-bp1wp 3 года назад

Oh u clever Timg

@robbabcock_ 3 года назад

Those owls are crafty!😂

@seastarcrunchies 3 года назад

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...

@schopenhauer5427 3 года назад

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

@retiredteacher6289 3 года назад

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.

@nahomycortezoficial 3 года назад

I keep hearing this noises in daylight at the top of my trees

@girl.distressed 3 года назад

Burrowing owls are everywhere where I live!

@hiimjustin8826 3 года назад

That was a really interesting video! I wish it was longer though because I still had lots of questions :)

@justsomepersononyoutube9271 3 года назад

Ikr

@g.seangourlay2593 3 года назад

Exaptation: Its like an ad-free adaptation

@gnetkuji 3 года назад

Makes me wonder if the only group that consistently calls the owl's bluff are the rattlesnakes.

@Markle2k 3 года назад

"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.

@urbannanni5864 3 года назад

There is a large bunch of them living on the campus of California State University in Bakersfield.

@Black-Swan-007 3 года назад

Snake Discovery taught me about batesian mimicry! :D

@AllDayBikes 3 года назад

The Lyer Bird comes to mind

@nunyobidniz 3 года назад

That Ground Squirrel looks an awful lot like a gopher…

@galaxyfigure4520 3 года назад

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

@nj586 3 года назад

What happens if a real rattlesnake comes across this owl's sound? Can they tell?

@crablessinbaltimore 3 года назад

imposter

@Mistersky46 3 года назад

Ejected

@fallen_leaves1674 3 года назад

owl not imposter

@twocvbloke 3 года назад

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

@Toastmaster_5000 3 года назад

I wasn't aware burrowing owls was a thing. Seems like Futurama was onto something, with their owl infestations

@Aaron-P 3 года назад

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 года назад

You know what, Aaron P, I LIKE YOU. You're not like the other people, here, in the trailer park.

@Aaron-P 3 года назад

@@rockets4kids 😉😉😉 you seem like a fine person to kick back a cool Coors 16-ouncer with. DFTBA

@Adiscretefirm 3 года назад

In Florida they aren't stealing them from desert tortoises, but from gopher tortoises.

@TheCasualAngler 3 года назад

i enjoyed this . makes me wanna go watch some zefank though lol

@garethtudor836 3 года назад

Go with your heart

@dem0nchild610 3 года назад

He's adorable I would love to peek in a burrow and see him

@koushikragunatha3368 3 года назад

Imagine what happens when rattle snake finds out that the owl is mimicking it

@praveenb9048 3 года назад

What if a rattlesnake tries to take over the owls burrow? Or vice versa? An oops moment, surely?

@edebs6243 3 года назад

Great, now I have the Dead Milkmen's 'Stuart' earworm..

@marshmallowcoolboy5308 3 года назад

Look at the animals nose. Do you see a head? I can't unsee it.

@Im_a_Bananatree 3 года назад

Little 🦉

@crablessinbaltimore 3 года назад

i would die for the burrowing owl

@anarchyantz1564 3 года назад

Fun fact. Apparently more and more rattlesnakes are being found in the wild sans rattle and scientists believe it is being evolved out.

@windhelmguard5295 3 года назад

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 года назад

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 года назад

@@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.

@danielcline7413 3 года назад

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 !

@jonathanblanny7954 3 года назад

They even have them in San Jose california

@wesp9020 3 года назад

Ok that may help for the wolves but what about the badgers? That rattles like a dinner bell to them.

@HECKproductions 3 года назад

thats all fine and well until some suicidal predator comes along and is like not what i expected but thats ok

@chrisjackson2821 3 года назад

Now I want to reread Hoot

@NajwaLaylah 3 года назад

Now I wonder if some cats take advantage of this confusion, as well.

@KahokoHinoEEVEE 3 года назад

It’s Digger!

@UnsaltedCashew38 3 года назад

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.

@beastcarleeto707 3 года назад

*sees thumbnail and reads caption* Nah pretty sure that's a rattlesnake

@PrateekVarshney_PV 3 года назад

Exaptation! Nice

@Gjoufi 3 года назад

So this is similar to when a cheetah pup looks like a honey badger? One trait reused to mimic something dangerous?

@minorcek 3 года назад

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'

@bri1085 3 года назад

Oddly enough I was reading about exaptation recently and how brachiating may have played a role in the development of bipedalism in humans.

@pundi2524 3 года назад

Sign: Acoustic Mimicry My Brain: Autistic Mimicry Me: wait what??

@orhanemreciftci4505 3 года назад

Hmm i am starting to think that all animal that has nerves can have ideas

@brendakrieger7000 3 года назад

Cute🦉

@Ninth_Penumbra 3 года назад

This got me thinking about other birds which live in underground burrows. I can recall a couple of birds local to: • Australia: *The Magellanic Penguin* & • New Zealand: *The Kakapo Parrot* Can anyone think of any others?

@wealllovemerylstreep7037 3 года назад

I was pleasantly surprised to see Michael because I haven't seen him in years. Especially taken a back his hair. I mean he couldn't have the hair of someone who has the sickest Pokèmon and Yugioh card decks ever. Now, he has the hair of a sexy cult leader.

@mexicanteixeira 3 года назад

You look like a jazz musician man

@JamesOKeefe-US 3 года назад

Not gonna lie, I totally think Michael should read us Twas the Night Before Christmas :) I would absolutely buy that :) 🤘 Awesome job as always brother!!

@pundi2524 3 года назад

.... Long ago theres a war between the burrowing owl and the rattlesnake.. They fought for the land. It was a long fierce battle many of the owl fallen.. They could not face the quick, flexible and venomous snake.. But one owl change their destiny.. He comes up with a plan to kill their leader by tunneling to the snake commander nest while the other hold the ground on the surface.. And so 5 owl start tunneling to the rattlesnake commander.. They fought bravely and in the battle against the snake the defeated the snake.. But 3 of their comrades die in the battle.. And so the warriors decide to eat the commander tail end.. Their the acquire the ability to rattle with their voice.. With that they turn the war around by mimicking the snake commander telling all the troop to retreat by rattling sound.. And so thats how it goes how burrowing old got their ability to rattle.. The last 2 warriors become the first owl that can rattled.. And soon the ability passed on to their childrens.. Grandchildrens and future generations.. Me: And that's how we know the burrowing owl nowdays the end

@muffinberg7960 3 года назад

I would think this mimicry is not solely based on evolution if I did not know it was past on to later generations. I would think it is intelligence, as I can't fathom how this type of detailed behavior can be evolved.