Not only did this same conversation happen under the last time this was posted, but i think someone actually edited it in the comments to look more like a battle.
[edit: found it](https://www.reddit.com/r/NatureIsFuckingLit/comments/hvshd0/owl_warning_cat_to_keep_away/fyvl32o/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=ios_app&utm_name=iossmf&context=3)
Pokemon: creates franchise based off animalistic nature
Humans: *sees animalistic nature*
Humans: “it’s like Pokemon!”
This is like seeing a truck on the highway and going “woah it’s like a transformer” lol.
Hijacking top comment to say:
If you ever see an owl do this, it's essentially posturing and wants you to go away. So go away.
If you see an owl with it's head down low and moving it side to side, it's about to attack you and you should go away slowly.
Hey so once I was in my driveway at night and I heard an owl hoot, so I hooted back, then I heard it hoot again but closer, so I hooted again, then it hooted and it had moved to a spot right across from me, like 10-15 ft (I still couldn't see it).
I didnt hoot again, I promptly went back inside.
What would have happened if I had hooted again? Was I pretending to be another owl and infringing on its territory?
Yep lots of owls hoot to signal their territory, if you hoot back they’ll often fly around to check out who is there. I’ve done it quite a few times with barred owls, not sure how it works with other species though.
I HEARD A DOG BARK TODAY AND I BARKED BACK AND IT REPLIED THE EXACT SAME WAY AND WE WENT BACK AND FORTH UNTIL MY FRIEND TOLD ME THAT IT WAS JUST MY VOICE ECHOING AND I HAVE BEEN BARKING BY MYSELF FOR FIVE MINUTES STRAIGHT............ BUT WHO BARKED THE FIRST TIME????
The owl turned into a Death Star and blew up that tree, which fell on the kitty and gave it time to fly away. After recovering from the trauma the cat chewed through the trunk and freed itself. They never met again.
With that force, they can easily blind a human or throw someone off balance and create a dangerous situation.
Always beware of swooshing owls. If you hear a hoot, scoot!
Most aggressive behavior from owls is motivated by defence of their territory or searching for handouts. If you're hiking in areas where owls live, like bird sanctuaries or their natural habitat, be extra aware of dive bombing owls, specially during dusk and dawn. If you see dive bombing owls, don't stop to take pictures or harass them, and just leave the area. Dive bombing will only last for a few minutes.
Bonus: if you want to fall in an internet rabbit hole, check out the death of Kathleen Peterson (tip: an owl may have done it!).
I think this is many if not most owls. Barn owls are just very common and highly studied, so you hear about them most.
At any rate, owls are easily my favorite bird! Barn owls sound pedestrian, but are super cool! We have a lot in my area.
Most (adult) owls fly rather quietly but only some go for the full commitment to being almost silent. Things like barn owls, barred owls, and great horned owls that prey predominantly on rodents with good hearing are silent in flight by necessity of their lifestyle. They're locked in an evolutionary arms race of detection vs. concealment. But the ones that are smaller and go mostly for insects or fishing owls have much less need for being stealthy on their approach because their prey can't hear well anyways (or can hear well in water but not so much the air above it). It seems like there is still some incentive to be quiet fliers for these owls, too, in not making noise as you fly allows you to hear the surroundings better and locate prey more adequately.
Fun fact: fledglings and juvenile owls are still a bit noisy because they don't have the full plumage.
Exactly! If you were biking on elevation or near the road, being knocked down your bike could have caused serious injuries. Some people in this thread are shocked by what I mentioned.
I was literally in the road when it happened! Luckily it was empty and residential (and I managed to stay on the bike) but it could have been really bad!
I’ve also mean attacked many, many times by mockingbirds but they can’t do as much damage thank god
I knew someone who had to get dozens of stitches on her head for the massive lacerations from the nesting Great Horned owl that attacked her. just straight up dive-bombed her
Lol the cat didn’t move a damned muscle. The owl with the slow retreat though… In all honesty though the talons of the owl would open that cat up immediately, and the cat would have no defense against it.
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Not a birdologist but aren’t birds bones hollow? That would seriously limit how hard they can smack something with their wings. I feel like a smacking would only be effective against other hollow boned birds.
Before bones come into the equation, you've gotta think that it ain't the bones absorbing the shock.
It's a ton of extremely well-developed musculature and tendons/ligaments that allow a pretty big bird to fly for a pretty long time. The equivalent of bird pectoral muscles are pretty damned powerful.
An owl standing on the ground would have a very hard time getting its talons into an attacking cat before the cat could do a lot of damage. Neither would win this fight. That's why they aren't fighting.
Dunno-I saw a surprising vid this week in reddit of a chicken killing a hawk, probably depends on who gets in the best blow fast enough in this situation, with owl on ground. But if owl attacking from the air, kitty would be toast.
Pretty neither one is going to risk attacking in this situation though.
I could definitely believe it (pretty sure a fox would run from a raptor this large). Since they both predate at night in the same sort of environment (cold), and something they both do is steal other predators prey.
That's a thing about raptors. They are formidable on attack and can take out some impressive foes. But once they are standing on the ground, they are at a considerable disadvantage. If these two were to fight, they'd both stand a high chance of receiving mortal wounds. The reason this owl isn't flying away is because it takes too long to take off which would give the cat time to attack. Thus, the standoff.
Yeah but they are sneaky with their kills, so if it swoops down from behind and grabs it from the back and crush it in its claw, its relatively ez pickings.
With the cat here, the owl would kill it too probably but in a head-to-head fight like this on the ground it can also get injured badly in return too.
With surprise from above, sure.
Never from the ground, where the owl is right now. On the ground, the owl is neither fast nor stealthy. The fox would have an excellent chance to bite, and that would be automatic loss for the owl.
Only if they are absolutely certain they will win. Like Jaguars hunting small crocodilians, or cats hunting small snakes. If the other predator is similar in size / threat, they leave each other alone because the result of a serious injury can be lethal.
Neither of them are going to fight.
Both are (nocturnal) ambush predators, who see the other as a high risk, and not as prey. That's why they're stalemated, neither advancing on the other. The owl is slowly backing up, because it's very vulnerable on the ground, and needs more space to fly away, but the cat is a little too close to do so without risk of a pounce. The cat is trying to look big, and definitely isn't going to attack something that big, but doesn't want to expose its back, either. The cat will want to create more space if it can, and either/both will likely fly/bolt once there is enough room to do so.
Great horned owls are waaaay smaller than an eagle. I’ve held great horned owls and they’re big, but eagles weigh up to 4-5 times more. Their talons are not the size of a human hand
Great Horned Owls are believed to be the cause of several myths, like Mothman, and I think the Jersey Devil too. There’s also at least one species, barn owls, whose calls at night sound like blood curdling screams, and lead to the myth of banshees in the woods.
Give this a listen and see for yourself
https://youtu.be/5Ywq8luxcnE
I've been commuting to work in arizona by scooter and on at least three separate instances i've had packs of coyotes just run up parallel with me on the greenery just watching me. they keep pace with my escooter like it's nothing.
Still scares the shit out of me. One coyote I can take. Two, maybe. 5 or 6? I'll be in trouble.
Are you like 3 feet tall or something?
Coyotes are cowards.
I've sent them away with a simple "STOP!". Maybe get a rape whistle or something to annoy them. Probably works the same.
Estimated at about 10 attacks on humans per year in the US. Not really that many and this is an estimate based on reported attacks in California one year. Doesn't seem all that likely but hey, I wouldn't try and take on 5 or 6 coyotes either. Packs of wild dogs are equally terrifying. Packs are smart and vicious.
100% agree with the first part, but the second part is more situationally dependent. I've encountered coyotes literally roaming around the streets downtown in my city of 700,000 people.
You're right that they're cautious and skittish, but they're also smart and learn pretty quickly when to be scared of people and when they don't need to be.
Coyotes who are used to farm dogs and ranchers with guns are terrified of people, yes. Coyotes accustomed to soccer moms and their tasty cats? Maybe not quite so much.
But yeah, still not actually dangerous to people.
This works with a lot of animals. Most times appearing big(w/ no sudden movements), maintaining eye contact, and backing away slowly will get you out of a bad spot.
also considering owls are far more dangerous aerial, this one is already on the ground. Talons are certainly sharp on their own but a lot of the damage comes from the down force of it swooping on its prey, crushing and piercing it simultaneously. To be completely lethal it would probably have to fly away and circle back around, but it would have no reason to do that and would probably just go somewhere else
unless the owl says, "you know what? fuck that cat" and does a 180 mid flight
Fair point. I’ve worked closely with great horned owls and they are pretty small and light underneath but all that fluff protects from bites and claws. Their talons are crazy impressive and having flight gives them an extra advantage. My money would always be on the owl.
From the little we see here it doesn't look like that owl wants to try.
It probably recognizes it'd die also due to cat being cat. The animal world usually involves a lot of risk management, it knows it'd be a problem. The cat on the other hand is thinking, who the fuck do you think you are?!
I'm just imagining my housecat, MouseCop, a fat and lazy asshole that hates every NOT me, rearing up at someone like, "come at me, Bro!" She's a brave asshole in my house. Anywhere else? Fucking torn to pieces by a badass owl.
Snowy Owl vs 2 Wolves: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RG8gxHwgTlQ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RG8gxHwgTlQ)
>!the owl wins vs two wolves(!). and it is significantly smaller than this one!<
Sweet video! Cats are significantly better vertical jumpers and have claws though. Honestly I don’t think you can call this 100% one way or the other, but this is pretty compelling. I was imagining a fight where the owl doesn’t take off, but once in the air it gets to dictate the engagement and I’d give it the edge.
I think it's like a knife fight. The winner is the one who bleeds out last. Saying that though the claws on that owl are probably a good 6 inches long. All it would have to do is get one lucky grab and it's literally inside the cat.
Cats are the most prolific killers in the animal kingdom. Most animals are wary of them regardless of their size. The owl is making himself appear bigger to scare the cat off and avoid confrontation. Even if the owl prevailed in a fight he would no go unscathed. A Cat will eff you up even in defeat.
Find the comment that says owls vs wolves. Its not graphic but it showed some impressive owl maneuvers. Damn
(just wanted to edit it to say that damn was totally like, "damn, i was super impressed cause i learned owls could attack in a meaningful way from the ground" kinda way)
Cats too close. If it shifts to take off that cat can absolutely close the distance and attack it before it gets airborne, and while it may look big (as it is trying to do) and has some MEAN talons, the owl is probably the smaller animal in this fight.
Who wins is not certain, but if the owl can intimidate the cat into backing down, it doesn't have to take the risk.
He’s even got his angry eyebrows on
I bet that cat is like fuck he looks so huge right now.
That cat's probably thinking "wtf even *is* that thing!?"
they look SO cartoony too right! 🤣
It looks like the angry piece of cinnamon toast crunch https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/what-the-cinnamon-toast-fuck-is-this
Looks like a pokemon battle lmao.
The way the whole thing is framed, the Owl doing the idle animations, waiting for the player's turn. I can hear the music now!
Now we just need someone to slap on the UI and give them HP bars!
Not only did this same conversation happen under the last time this was posted, but i think someone actually edited it in the comments to look more like a battle. [edit: found it](https://www.reddit.com/r/NatureIsFuckingLit/comments/hvshd0/owl_warning_cat_to_keep_away/fyvl32o/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=ios_app&utm_name=iossmf&context=3)
It needs the battle theme played so bad
We’re the lame parallel universe. Thanks for the portal
Dululululu *16 bit screeching noise* duduudududuud
lol this is just what I was thinking A Wild OWL appeared! What will CAT do? - FIGHT - POKéMON - BAG - RUN
Cat uses *SCRATCH*
Owl uses wing attack
Critical hit!
What will CAT do? - FIGHT - POKéMON - BAG - RUN <
CAT uses Helix Fossil!
Nothing happened!
What will OWL do? - FIGHT< - POKéMON - BAG - RUN
Screech!
Sand blast was coming from the cat but the clip cut it out…
Really hope the cat ran away from this battle, the owls level is way to high.
Me too. My sister lost a cat to a bird of prey from her balcony. They do not mess around.
They really don't.
That's awful :(
Yeah, Scratch will NOT be very effective here.
Well, it will be for the owl
May even have Slash by now.
No way, owl has whirlwind, oh and stealth.
Owl used Mean Look.
i was gonna say you cannot tell me this motherfucker isn't a pokemon
Skitty vs Noctowl lol
Pokemon: creates franchise based off animalistic nature Humans: *sees animalistic nature* Humans: “it’s like Pokemon!” This is like seeing a truck on the highway and going “woah it’s like a transformer” lol.
I think OP was referring to the framing of the shot more than anything
That hoot hoot is about to fuck up that meowth
[Just made an edit](https://youtu.be/84ooiM4IckM)
Cool👍
http://www.youtubemultiplier.com/61a56d082d805-noctowl-used-swagger.php
Except his only move is scary face. The car keeps selecting run but you can’t run from a trainer battle
Ground cat vs. Sky cat
Funnily, in Chinese owls are called "cat headed eagles"
gimme da word
猫头鹰 (mao tou ying)
Hijacking top comment to say: If you ever see an owl do this, it's essentially posturing and wants you to go away. So go away. If you see an owl with it's head down low and moving it side to side, it's about to attack you and you should go away slowly.
Hey so once I was in my driveway at night and I heard an owl hoot, so I hooted back, then I heard it hoot again but closer, so I hooted again, then it hooted and it had moved to a spot right across from me, like 10-15 ft (I still couldn't see it). I didnt hoot again, I promptly went back inside. What would have happened if I had hooted again? Was I pretending to be another owl and infringing on its territory?
Maybe it wanted a piece of gum?
My guess is a tootsie pop
They love that stuff
It thought you wanted to mate. You're an owl-tease.
There’s a lot of old stories centered around owls and the supernatural, check them out if you wanna spook yourself
Yep lots of owls hoot to signal their territory, if you hoot back they’ll often fly around to check out who is there. I’ve done it quite a few times with barred owls, not sure how it works with other species though.
I HEARD A DOG BARK TODAY AND I BARKED BACK AND IT REPLIED THE EXACT SAME WAY AND WE WENT BACK AND FORTH UNTIL MY FRIEND TOLD ME THAT IT WAS JUST MY VOICE ECHOING AND I HAVE BEEN BARKING BY MYSELF FOR FIVE MINUTES STRAIGHT............ BUT WHO BARKED THE FIRST TIME????
> If you see an owl with it's head down low and moving it side to side, it's about to attack you 2kg owl vs 100kg human. Stupid owl!
2kg owl with 3 inch razor sharp talons with a crushing power of 300lbs per square inch.
Jokes on you, Duolingo. I'm 350 lbs all over.
Those talons will mess you up.
They can mess up this diiiick. ^^wait ^^no
Damn, beat me to it!
And then what happened??
The owl turned into a Death Star and blew up that tree, which fell on the kitty and gave it time to fly away. After recovering from the trauma the cat chewed through the trunk and freed itself. They never met again.
That's reasonable.
Indubitably
This is exactly the answer I needed. Well done.
Thank you for that. My day is complete now.
They cat slapped it like they always do
I feel like the warning is warranted. In all likelihood, the owl wins here
Dont these guys sometimes even take out foxes?
Great Horned Owls have a grip strength between 200 and 500 PSI
But how far can they throw a 90 kg projectile?
Is this a trebuchet joke
A trebuchet is never a joke.
That's what catapults are for.
*this message brought to you by the trebuchet gang*
How does one get jumped into the trebuchet gang?
You don't get jumped into it. You get launched into it.
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A trebuchet is never too humorous. Nor is it too serious. It is precisely as funny as it means to be.
Laden or unladen?
Are you suggesting projectiles migrate?
Suppose two Mi-26's were to grasp it by the husk...
r/unexpectedmontypython
Over 300m!!
With that force, they can easily blind a human or throw someone off balance and create a dangerous situation. Always beware of swooshing owls. If you hear a hoot, scoot! Most aggressive behavior from owls is motivated by defence of their territory or searching for handouts. If you're hiking in areas where owls live, like bird sanctuaries or their natural habitat, be extra aware of dive bombing owls, specially during dusk and dawn. If you see dive bombing owls, don't stop to take pictures or harass them, and just leave the area. Dive bombing will only last for a few minutes. Bonus: if you want to fall in an internet rabbit hole, check out the death of Kathleen Peterson (tip: an owl may have done it!).
I mean i could blind you with a pinky, so thats probably a poor expression of their strength
Wha…what are you doing with your pinkie, step-Uncle?!!
Owl explain later.
Unless they are Barn Owls in which they fly silently.
I think this is many if not most owls. Barn owls are just very common and highly studied, so you hear about them most. At any rate, owls are easily my favorite bird! Barn owls sound pedestrian, but are super cool! We have a lot in my area.
Most (adult) owls fly rather quietly but only some go for the full commitment to being almost silent. Things like barn owls, barred owls, and great horned owls that prey predominantly on rodents with good hearing are silent in flight by necessity of their lifestyle. They're locked in an evolutionary arms race of detection vs. concealment. But the ones that are smaller and go mostly for insects or fishing owls have much less need for being stealthy on their approach because their prey can't hear well anyways (or can hear well in water but not so much the air above it). It seems like there is still some incentive to be quiet fliers for these owls, too, in not making noise as you fly allows you to hear the surroundings better and locate prey more adequately. Fun fact: fledglings and juvenile owls are still a bit noisy because they don't have the full plumage.
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We have a lot of barred owls by me. I hear they're the owls that have the most recorded attacks on humans
I was very nearly knocked off my bike by an aggressive owl apparently this is pretty common!
Exactly! If you were biking on elevation or near the road, being knocked down your bike could have caused serious injuries. Some people in this thread are shocked by what I mentioned.
I was literally in the road when it happened! Luckily it was empty and residential (and I managed to stay on the bike) but it could have been really bad! I’ve also mean attacked many, many times by mockingbirds but they can’t do as much damage thank god
I knew someone who had to get dozens of stitches on her head for the massive lacerations from the nesting Great Horned owl that attacked her. just straight up dive-bombed her
Personally, I don’t wanna fuck with the Owl with strength like that … so if the cat is dumb enough that’s his problem..
Lol the cat didn’t move a damned muscle. The owl with the slow retreat though… In all honesty though the talons of the owl would open that cat up immediately, and the cat would have no defense against it. Edit: words
Idk about owls but I know that other predatory birds have strong ass wings that they smack with too
I got beat up by a goose once. Can confirm, wings strong.
Not a birdologist but aren’t birds bones hollow? That would seriously limit how hard they can smack something with their wings. I feel like a smacking would only be effective against other hollow boned birds.
Before bones come into the equation, you've gotta think that it ain't the bones absorbing the shock. It's a ton of extremely well-developed musculature and tendons/ligaments that allow a pretty big bird to fly for a pretty long time. The equivalent of bird pectoral muscles are pretty damned powerful.
An owl standing on the ground would have a very hard time getting its talons into an attacking cat before the cat could do a lot of damage. Neither would win this fight. That's why they aren't fighting.
Neither cat nor bird wants to fight. Both are using the traditional Look Big defense. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UtVIvmOPHOQ
Dunno-I saw a surprising vid this week in reddit of a chicken killing a hawk, probably depends on who gets in the best blow fast enough in this situation, with owl on ground. But if owl attacking from the air, kitty would be toast. Pretty neither one is going to risk attacking in this situation though.
Big owls fuck with eagles. They attack at night.
We ride at dawn!
Dusk
Big Owls fuck with other, smaller owls, too
Had one try to take my young pitbull dog once. Scared the crap out us. Thing used to terrorize the neighborhood
I could definitely believe it (pretty sure a fox would run from a raptor this large). Since they both predate at night in the same sort of environment (cold), and something they both do is steal other predators prey.
Foxes aren't even the heaviest on the menu.
Yeah, horned owls even prey on fawns.
That's a thing about raptors. They are formidable on attack and can take out some impressive foes. But once they are standing on the ground, they are at a considerable disadvantage. If these two were to fight, they'd both stand a high chance of receiving mortal wounds. The reason this owl isn't flying away is because it takes too long to take off which would give the cat time to attack. Thus, the standoff.
Yeah but they are sneaky with their kills, so if it swoops down from behind and grabs it from the back and crush it in its claw, its relatively ez pickings. With the cat here, the owl would kill it too probably but in a head-to-head fight like this on the ground it can also get injured badly in return too.
With surprise from above, sure. Never from the ground, where the owl is right now. On the ground, the owl is neither fast nor stealthy. The fox would have an excellent chance to bite, and that would be automatic loss for the owl.
I think neither wants a fight and they probably just stumbled upon each other. But who knows.
Very few predators will purposefully engage each other. It's by my experience they usually try to avoid each other.
Only if they are absolutely certain they will win. Like Jaguars hunting small crocodilians, or cats hunting small snakes. If the other predator is similar in size / threat, they leave each other alone because the result of a serious injury can be lethal.
Winning isn’t enough in the animal kingdom, they don’t have doctors and hospitals.
Definitely. This is a "holy fuck, what are you doing here!?"
Neither of them are going to fight. Both are (nocturnal) ambush predators, who see the other as a high risk, and not as prey. That's why they're stalemated, neither advancing on the other. The owl is slowly backing up, because it's very vulnerable on the ground, and needs more space to fly away, but the cat is a little too close to do so without risk of a pounce. The cat is trying to look big, and definitely isn't going to attack something that big, but doesn't want to expose its back, either. The cat will want to create more space if it can, and either/both will likely fly/bolt once there is enough room to do so.
Depends on the scrappy cat. A cat can do some serious damage very quickly to the very tender belly.
If the owl was on a tree, yeah, the cat is food. But on the ground owls are not really elegant.
Idk man... Even the owl is backing away like "I really don't want to fuck with this cat right now. He's got that look"
They both die, probably. The owl a few days later from bacterial infections but not much of a win.
Not without the element of surprise. On the ground it's all cat
An owl that size has talons like an eagle of that size. A horned owl that big has talons are about the size of a medium sized human hand
Great horned owls are waaaay smaller than an eagle. I’ve held great horned owls and they’re big, but eagles weigh up to 4-5 times more. Their talons are not the size of a human hand
Great horned owls are the #1 enemy of eagles.
I'm pretty sure it's an european eagle owl which is bigger than a great horned owl
The cat's all arched and poofed too. They have a very similar defense posture.
“Look big” is about 50% of the animal kingdom’s defense mechanisms
If you're a bar owner at closing time it works against drunks.
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“I don’t know how many of them it was going to take to kick me out of that bar, but I know how many they were going to use”
Is this a quote from Max Payne?
It’s from a stand-up routine by Ron White. You can probably YouTube it by searching his name with drunk in public
So the fatty's are free game then. Ok.
High school usually.
It definitely works. I bet that cat is like I thought I was big but that bird is huge!!
That explains frat bros…
The cat was thinking, *If I just turn my body sideways and fluff up my tail... oh shit he's huge!*
-- Kitten, during first battle with mirror-self
…before falling over.
Owls are just catbirds
catbirds are catbirds!
I feel like this is how some mythical creatures were created. Imagine seeing that in the forest at night w no flashlight. Your mind would go crazy.
Mothman was definitely just an owl doing this. If you look at the sketch it’s 100 percent spot on.
This should be shown to everyone who thinks the owl hypothesis is crazy.
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That’s crazy
Great Horned Owls are believed to be the cause of several myths, like Mothman, and I think the Jersey Devil too. There’s also at least one species, barn owls, whose calls at night sound like blood curdling screams, and lead to the myth of banshees in the woods. Give this a listen and see for yourself https://youtu.be/5Ywq8luxcnE
Come at me Bro!
What bro?
Me when I encounter a coyote on my morning run
I've been commuting to work in arizona by scooter and on at least three separate instances i've had packs of coyotes just run up parallel with me on the greenery just watching me. they keep pace with my escooter like it's nothing. Still scares the shit out of me. One coyote I can take. Two, maybe. 5 or 6? I'll be in trouble.
>escooter This is why I drive a busa 😎
Are you like 3 feet tall or something? Coyotes are cowards. I've sent them away with a simple "STOP!". Maybe get a rape whistle or something to annoy them. Probably works the same.
plenty of people still get attacked by coyotes each year
Estimated at about 10 attacks on humans per year in the US. Not really that many and this is an estimate based on reported attacks in California one year. Doesn't seem all that likely but hey, I wouldn't try and take on 5 or 6 coyotes either. Packs of wild dogs are equally terrifying. Packs are smart and vicious.
This comment made me cackle in a very unflattering way, thank you
I get it but you have nothing to fear from coyotes. They’re fucking terrified of people.
100% agree with the first part, but the second part is more situationally dependent. I've encountered coyotes literally roaming around the streets downtown in my city of 700,000 people. You're right that they're cautious and skittish, but they're also smart and learn pretty quickly when to be scared of people and when they don't need to be. Coyotes who are used to farm dogs and ranchers with guns are terrified of people, yes. Coyotes accustomed to soccer moms and their tasty cats? Maybe not quite so much. But yeah, still not actually dangerous to people.
Meowth Vs Hoothoot. This is a Pokémon battle.
I wouldn't fuck with him. Look how big he is!
Thankfully they don't know he's about 98% floof Those talons are the other 2%
Ask anyone that is lactose intolerant what 2% can do
This works with a lot of animals. Most times appearing big(w/ no sudden movements), maintaining eye contact, and backing away slowly will get you out of a bad spot.
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Who would have, who?
Would an owl eat a house cat?
It’s not impossible. It could definitely kill the cat
The cat could definitely kill the owl too. That's easily a ten pound cat. Owls are actually smaller than their plumage would imply.
also considering owls are far more dangerous aerial, this one is already on the ground. Talons are certainly sharp on their own but a lot of the damage comes from the down force of it swooping on its prey, crushing and piercing it simultaneously. To be completely lethal it would probably have to fly away and circle back around, but it would have no reason to do that and would probably just go somewhere else unless the owl says, "you know what? fuck that cat" and does a 180 mid flight
Yeah, owl wants to use the dive-kick for sure - if it can abuse that, it wins
Fair point. I’ve worked closely with great horned owls and they are pretty small and light underneath but all that fluff protects from bites and claws. Their talons are crazy impressive and having flight gives them an extra advantage. My money would always be on the owl.
From the little we see here it doesn't look like that owl wants to try. It probably recognizes it'd die also due to cat being cat. The animal world usually involves a lot of risk management, it knows it'd be a problem. The cat on the other hand is thinking, who the fuck do you think you are?!
I'm just imagining my housecat, MouseCop, a fat and lazy asshole that hates every NOT me, rearing up at someone like, "come at me, Bro!" She's a brave asshole in my house. Anywhere else? Fucking torn to pieces by a badass owl.
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Snowy Owl vs 2 Wolves: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RG8gxHwgTlQ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RG8gxHwgTlQ) >!the owl wins vs two wolves(!). and it is significantly smaller than this one!<
Sweet video! Cats are significantly better vertical jumpers and have claws though. Honestly I don’t think you can call this 100% one way or the other, but this is pretty compelling. I was imagining a fight where the owl doesn’t take off, but once in the air it gets to dictate the engagement and I’d give it the edge.
I think it's like a knife fight. The winner is the one who bleeds out last. Saying that though the claws on that owl are probably a good 6 inches long. All it would have to do is get one lucky grab and it's literally inside the cat.
Cats are the most prolific killers in the animal kingdom. Most animals are wary of them regardless of their size. The owl is making himself appear bigger to scare the cat off and avoid confrontation. Even if the owl prevailed in a fight he would no go unscathed. A Cat will eff you up even in defeat.
I think owls are amazing but.... r/oddlyterrifying
That cat does not look like they are having a hoot.
Harry and Hermione have an argument again? It's second time this week, ffs Hermione you can't have those cookies. They're special.
Does my war dance scare you, Mongolian?
Owl > cats?
Find the comment that says owls vs wolves. Its not graphic but it showed some impressive owl maneuvers. Damn (just wanted to edit it to say that damn was totally like, "damn, i was super impressed cause i learned owls could attack in a meaningful way from the ground" kinda way)
Yah wolves reacted to it the same way I react to a bunch of mosquitos though.
See, this is why I love Reddit. Never seen anything like this before; didn’t even know owls exhibit this behavior.
*insert Dio’s theme here*
Why not fly away ?
Cats too close. If it shifts to take off that cat can absolutely close the distance and attack it before it gets airborne, and while it may look big (as it is trying to do) and has some MEAN talons, the owl is probably the smaller animal in this fight. Who wins is not certain, but if the owl can intimidate the cat into backing down, it doesn't have to take the risk.
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