Pearl, Thats a cool story, raptors are the top of the bird food chain for sure!
Yeah, tell me about it! I reached over to adjust the jesses on our great horned owl yesterday morning without first showing her my hand....she gave me such a dirty look and clamped down on the glove hard enough to leave bruises on my hand! I accept the fact that she hates me, that will never change. But she trusts me and will stand on glove while I walk around a classroom full of kids, she knows I will keep her safe. And that means the world to me.
Great horned owls, by the way, can produce 29 lbs of pressure with
each of their 8 talons. Do the math. When in difficult times they have been known to take foxes as prey. They weigh 3-3.5 lbs and take out a 12 lb predator?
