Great Gray Owls hunting voles under snow hover to defeat an acoustic mirage
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DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2022.1164
Abstract: How do Great Gray Owls (Strix nebulosa) capture voles (Cricetidae) through a layer of snow? As snow is a visual barrier, the owls locate voles by ear alone. To test how snow absorbs and refracts… read more here.
Keywords: gray owls; acoustic mirage; sound; great gray ... See more keywords