How Can Owls Turn Their Heads
Whereas People and Other Animals Can Simply Move Their Eyes to Follow an Object or Use Peripheral Vision to Scan a Room, Owls Must Turn Their Heads for the...
How Can Owls Turn Their Heads?
Whereas people and other animals can simply move their eyes to follow an object or use peripheral vision to scan a room, owls must turn their heads for the same effect. These birds have fixed eye sockets, which means their eyeballs can’t rotate, forcing them to stretch their necks—a seemingly supernatural feat.May 8, 2013
How do owls turn their heads 270 degrees?
Bones in owls’ necks also have adaptations designed to facilitate extreme rotation. One of the major arteries feeding the birds’ brains passes through holes in the vertebrae, called transverse foramine; the team found that these holes were 10 times larger in diameter than the artery.
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