That’s Not a Rattlesnake… It’s an Owl!
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- Опубліковано 20 лис 2020
- 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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Burrowing Owl hisses
Predator: Ah Snek!
Let's give a hoot for this family of raptors!
hoot!
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.
Michael's hair just keeps getting more and more luxuriant ...
Yes his hair looks luxuriant and soft and ... not that I'm obsessed with Michael. No. I just have an enormous interest in him.
He reminds me of my mexican grandpa in old photos where he had a mullet
that owl's rattle was much much scarier than the rattle snake's.
It had an odd screeching hint to it compared to the chkchkchk of the snake, IMO.
They live year round in Arizona as well.
theres a little park in gilbert az that has some little artificial burrows that are sometimes filled with owls
@@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😕
@@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.
California too
Ive seen them near westgate
"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
Yeah I've read all that guys books other good ones are scat and flush
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...
still, if it was an owl it wanted to be left alone, and thus you should not bother them
Other owls don't have a pit to hiss in.
Adorbs
Or a burrow to scream it out of?
Mimicry is one of my favorite biology topics!
“You don’t often hear the words bird and burrough in the same sentence”
[laughs in NYC]
"Ground dwelling predators"
Mud won't save you from them, Arnold.
shot up football head, Helga Pataki
@@sirBrouwer i understood that reference
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.
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.
@John Smith you too John! Good Job...
Fun fact the people of argentina have big noses
Just another reason to love my favorite animal! They are also the only silent flyer
Almost all Strigiformes are silent fliers, not just Athene Cuniculaira.
Little wol with loooooong legs, pretending to be a danger noodle...BEST BIRB THAT I HAVE SEEN TODAY!
I’ve heard a cicada in dead leaves that sounded exactly like a rattlesnake🤔
If the owl lives in a rabbit's burrow, as the species name indicates, the sound is a warrening signal.
2:25 new meme suprised owl face :D
I saw one try to snatch up a jackalope the other day. Oh boy, was that a sight!
I saw this owl on 'Tiny Creatures' on Netflix, a surprisingly cute show.
Those huge eyes and the cocked head in the thumbnail!! I just can't even with these owls!!!
Cant even what?
That's so adorable!
These guys. I remember them always being at bus stops as a kid. They are super territorial and mean.
That owl in the thumbnail looked like it saw the video title and said, "Oh, is it now?!"
Just want to say thank you for presenting these videos for so many years.
someone better make a sample with that owl screech
So: cute as hell, and sneaky as hell.
No wonder I love their feathery little selves
There's always something new with owls
Think you're safe in a bunker? OWL!
I took your suggestion and asked a squirrel. No answer so far.
Any word yet?
@@stevenutter3614 Nope. It's getting cold out here.
Any luck yet? Im rooting for you chief
Grew up with these hilarious little angry bois in Florida. I find them to be tremendously entertaining.
This was so cool! I also appreciate you adding the closed captioning. Thank you
Those owls are crafty!😂
In Cape Coral, Florida they are protected and you can see their burrows throughout the city's neighborhoods.
“It’s not an owl.”
- The Fourth Kind
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._
I was about 60% sure that the Milkmen made up the Burrow Owl until today.
Ikr
Beautiful owls, I have seen them in Arizona and Florida.
I'm from the Antelope Valley in southern California and we have burrowing owls. I've never heard them hiss.
Burrowing owls are squatters waving an empty gun at the real homeowners!
stop hiding the fact that flamingos pee on their legs to cool themselves off
I too do that
Oh no, tmi, ba ha ha
Scream so loud you sound like a rattlesnake. That’s METAL AF
Okay, so the owlets hissing is effective, but hootaught them this?
Oh u clever Timg
Burrowing owls are everywhere where I live!
This owl is very common in northeast Brazil... I see them often at sunset when they leave they burrows to hunt
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".
I keep hearing this noises in daylight at the top of my trees
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!
Seems like a good technique, except when the intruder is a real rattlesnake :)
Exaptation: Its like an ad-free adaptation
The Lyer Bird comes to mind
Snake Discovery taught me about batesian mimicry! :D
That was a really interesting video! I wish it was longer though because I still had lots of questions :)
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
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.
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...
He's adorable I would love to peek in a burrow and see him
"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.
That Ground Squirrel looks an awful lot like a gopher…
Makes me wonder if the only group that consistently calls the owl's bluff are the rattlesnakes.
There is a large bunch of them living on the campus of California State University in Bakersfield.
Little 🦉
Exaptation! Nice
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
Imagine what happens when rattle snake finds out that the owl is mimicking it
Great, now I have the Dead Milkmen's 'Stuart' earworm..
i would die for the burrowing owl
Now I want to reread Hoot
It’s Digger!
They even have them in San Jose california
Look at the animals nose. Do you see a head? I can't unsee it.
I wasn't aware burrowing owls was a thing. Seems like Futurama was onto something, with their owl infestations
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
i enjoyed this . makes me wanna go watch some zefank though lol
Go with your heart
In Florida they aren't stealing them from desert tortoises, but from gopher tortoises.
Cute🦉
Fun fact. Apparently more and more rattlesnakes are being found in the wild sans rattle and scientists believe it is being evolved out.
What if a rattlesnake tries to take over the owls burrow? Or vice versa?
An oops moment, surely?
A wise bird 😆🤣😂
*sees thumbnail and reads caption*
Nah pretty sure that's a rattlesnake
Now I wonder if some cats take advantage of this confusion, as well.
Sign: Acoustic Mimicry
My Brain: Autistic Mimicry
Me: wait what??
Cool!!!
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 !
HOOT!!
you'd think other mimicking birds would have figured out similar strats, parrots and ravens seem smart enough to pull it off.
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.
@@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.
What happens if a real rattlesnake comes across this owl's sound? Can they tell?
imposter
Ejected
owl not imposter
thats all fine and well until some suicidal predator comes along and is like
not what i expected but thats ok
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?!!"
You know what, Aaron P, I LIKE YOU. You're not like the other people, here, in the trailer park.
@@rockets4kids 😉😉😉 you seem like a fine person to kick back a cool Coors 16-ouncer with. DFTBA
You look like a jazz musician man
Hmm i am starting to think that all animal that has nerves can have ideas
Ok that may help for the wolves but what about the badgers? That rattles like a dinner bell to them.
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'
Please do a video on the evolution of cacti
We have then live on aruba aswell
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?
Is this a throw back episode?
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.
Michael 😍😍😍
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