Owls are some of the most beautiful birds in the animal kingdom, known for their nocturnal habits, silent flight and piercing ...

In fact, an owl’s eyes can make up to 3 percent of its entire body weight. By comparison, a human’s eyes account for 0.0003 percent of their body weight, according to National Geographic.

In India, owls are loved as Lakshmi’s ride. Some parts of India also know them as ‘corpse bird’, drawn to cemeteries because of the big trees and lack of human disturbance there. Humans are ...

not realizing that these owls are on the verge of starvation, and human presence makes it much more difficult to hunt," she said. "And it stresses the bird out having all these eyes on them." ...