North America
It’s winter in North America, and a hunter is getting ready to catch its dinner!
This is the great gray owl.
Great Gray Owl
Crazy skill: incredible hearing.
Crazy Skill:
Incredible Hearing
Great gray owls have excellent eyesight, but that doesn’t help if their dinner is hidden beneath the snow!
Luckily, they also have exceptional hearing, which means they can listen out for food.
Once this great gray owl has worked out where the sound of its prey is coming from – the hunt is on.
The owl uses its huge wings to glide silently above the ground, which means its prey doesn’t hear it approach.
And then – gotcha!
It catches this mouse, even through all the snow!
The great gray owl’s amazing hunting ability means it can stay well fed through the winter.
Crazy-o-meter
So how crazy is the great gray owl?
It glides silently through the air, and it uses its incredible hearing to hunt for food beneath the snow!
glides silently
incredible hearing
That’s pretty crazy!