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now so there yeah oh I did that in one
take today I want to introduce you to
Moin Moin good girl this gorgeous
incredible girl is muy muy muy muy is
not a pet owl she's a working owl so she
actually lives at my work she's only
home with me tonight just so I can do
this video and her job is to come into
school and to assist us in giving
educational talk I also have forgotten
my glove at work so she's on my hand she
doesn't want to hurt me she's just
sitting here but on shows we don't allow
anyone to hold the owl's without
actually wearing a glove muy muy is a
southern white face scops owl and she
comes from sub-saharan Africa muy muy is
actually ten years old there is
speculation that the oldest living
southern face cops'll reached 30 years
old I don't know if that is entirely
true because I can only find one source
for it but I will let you know in
another twenty years time if moyamoya is
still around obviously their lifespan in
the wild is much shorter than it would
be in captivity because in captivity she
doesn't have to worry about illness
because she has access to a vet and she
doesn't have to worry about predators
trying to eat her normally is a
nocturnal bird so that means she wakes
up at nighttime though they are
opportunistic so if they're hungry they
may venture out in the daytime as well
in order to find some food it's just
coming up to sundown now so number one
she's going to start to wake up and
number two my lighting is probably going
to get really weird some really really
sorry the white face Scott's owl is a
predator they will eat rodents and small
birds as well as insects however they're
quite lazy they tend to prefer to perch
so other birds of prey for example a
Kestrel who you'll see hovering and
really looking around for food will
actively
for their prey and really go for it
whereas my and a lot of other owls are
quite lazy
she'll pretty much just perch there and
wait for food to come close enough to
her then she might fly down and go and
get it but they are quite a lazy bird
great just just jump on my camera why
don't you step up step up step up don't
give me that back chart thank you now
for ages
we thought that moy was a boy there's
actually not very much sexual dimorphism
between the genders so males and females
look very similar sexual dimorphism is
when you can tell the genders apart a
really great example of sexual
dimorphism occurs in the electors parrot
so here we can see a male a collective
parrot and then over here a female a
collective parent you can see they're
clearly very different there's really
distinct sexual dimorphism whereas with
these scots owls
there's not very much sexual dimorphism
in fact the only real way to be able to
determine the gender unless they start
laying eggs is to have a feather tested
in a laboratory they'll be able to run
some tests and to let you know whether
the gender is male or female with moy we
just assumed that she was a male for a
long long time and then one of our
colleagues went to start working at a
big zoo where he specialized in birds
and we found out that by introducing a
special light into their enclosures even
for the nocturnal creatures who might
not necessarily want or need as much
natural sunlight it would make them
healthier and within weeks of
introducing the two scopes owls at work
to this new light they both started
laying eggs so it meant that they are
much healthier and their bodies were
working as they should as females so moy
is in fact a female even though we
thought that she was a boy for a really
really long time
mine are you on my tripod as I swing you
around so you can see you are just a
very naughty owl do you know this let's
talk about some of moist features can
you see these feathers up here they
called ear tufts
they're not actually ears her real ears
are kind in little holes which are
actually underneath the feathers and
they are ever so slightly asymmetrical
meaning that one of her ear
is about here and the other one is
slightly lower and this enables her to
hear things that are above and below
these are not her ears
these are ear tufts they're more like
eyebrows they let us know kind of what
she's thinking if they're really raised
she can point them up almost like horns
that means she's really alert but
sometimes if she's really relaxed
they'll be quite flat at the moment
she's just kind of in a new environment
there's a light over here she's not as
familiar surroundings but she's not
scared so they're just kind of semi up
there another amazing feature are those
eyes now our eyes are so big and their
skulls are so small that there isn't any
space behind the eyes for any eye
muscles so for us if you want a glance
to the left or to the right or up or
down or all the way around a circle it's
really really easy oh I can't do that
boy physically has to turn to look at
things if she really wants to see what's
going on now those eyes are really good
to sing far away but everything close to
her is a blur she can't see her own feet
and she can't even see my hand my boys
eyes are a lot like us she's got this
big beautiful black iris and that should
contract and relax in order to let more
light in if she wants to be able to see
more in the dark or to become smaller if
there's a lot of light and she doesn't
need as much light to go in look at more
eyes one of them is darker than the
other this one over here for some reason
is a birth defect and I can't remember
the name I'll have to put it in here
somewhere
but it basically means that her pupil is
constantly dilated it doesn't worry her
too much she still has fantastic vision
but that pupil is always always dilated
Whiteface Scott's owls were famous on
YouTube a while back and the reason why
they shot to fame is because they're
also known as the transforming owl or
the Transformer owl if she is really
scared by something or not sure about
something she can do two things either
she can push herself up you know like a
cat when they get really scared they can
make all their hair stand on end and
appear larger well she can do that with
her feathers she can really bend down
and
open her wings and do this really crazy
dance like this to try and ward
predators away or if there's something
really big and she's not sure about it
she wouldn't be able to take it on and
she just rather hide she can suck all
her feathers in to make herself
super super skinny she closes her eyes
so you can't see those amazing orange
eyes of her and she kind of pulls her
feathers round to the side a bit like a
Dracula cape if you imagine someone
going like what hot and tries to
camouflage against whatever she's knit
usually it's a tree or branches because
that's where they spend the majority of
their time so a way that we feed more if
she mostly eats chicks and we buy these
frozen they get delivered to us and then
we thaw them out throughout the day till
they're nice and squishy and then she
can have them but we do change it up so
she does sometimes get frozen thawed
mice again we buy them in frozen and
then we store them out and feed them to
her and sometimes because we have so
many animals that eat insects at work
some of these insects escapes she's
really good at hopping down onto the
floor and capturing any of the loose
crickets that may have wandered into her
enclosure something nice that you don't
hear every day is that these guys are
not endangered they are listed as of
Least Concern which means there's a
really big healthy population of white
face cop cells which I'm very glad to
hear about Moin Moin aren't you yeah
look at that can you see that she's
really moving her head around she wants
to gain a good picture yes that is a
moth are you going to go and eat it now
when it comes to the business of raising
chicks you need somewhere to lay your
eggs and these guys are not famed for
their nest building abilities what
she'll do is she will find an abandoned
nest or a hollowed-out tree and usually
they lay between two and four eggs she
would sit on those eggs and incubate
them for about a month about 30 to 31
days then after 30 or 31 days those
little owlets will hatch and they are
the ugliest things you have ever seen if
you've ever seen baby owls they are
basically all feet and beak they're not
particularly nice-looking they do grow
up to be very regal looking but it's
very much a case of the ugly duckling
Scott's owls are very good parents the
male to stick around and we'll take
turns with the female looking after the
chicks and they will both take turns in
bringing food back so all sorts of small
rodents smaller birds and insects as
well the our looks will discuss as much
food as they can as much as mummy and
daddy can bring back to them and then
after another month so another 30 or 31
days they're ready to fledge and that
means they're ready they've got their
feathers they're ready to take their
first flight and to go and try and
become independent even though the
owlets are able to leave the nest and to
start exploring after about a month they
do depend on their parents for about two
weeks after like most other owls these
owls are not particularly social with
their own kind and they spend the vast
majority of their time living alone just
like wolves Ravens foxes black cats owls
have been subject to lots of different
vocal or sometimes it's positive
sometimes it's negative when we come
from it used to be believed that they
were witches so they were actually
feared and persecuted however in Western
culture howls are thought of as being a
symbol of wisdom and of knowledge now I
know I'm going to get the question that
I'm asked about almost every animal I
feature on my channel do they make a
good pet how much do they cost where can
i buy one they're really not the
brightest crayon in the box they're not
particularly smart even on the set of
Harry Potter the people who are training
the owls that it took months to be able
to train owls to do the smallest thing
like carrying a letter because they're
really not built for using a lot of
their gray matter they're just very
beautiful and that's okay that's okay
now for any fellow Harry Potter fans
house Gryffindor and half deaf
Angelica's talking about healthy so you
may have remembered when Ron got his new
owl Pig wigeon well pig huachen in the
movies was depicted by a white face gob
so so I would love to be able to call
you pig widgeon but this is my pig pig
Wiggin hey pink region more and more can
also make a lot of different
vocalizations let's see if I can get her
to do her little feeling slightly
annoyed clicking sound that sounds like
a purr did you hear that I've been it so
so touched by all of your letters I read
every single one of them and I just want
to shout out to members of the creature
crew so far whose things that I have
received and first of all I wanted to
just shout out Ava for this beautiful
just hugest most lovely picture ever it
even has my centipedes in a little flap
over here with my EpiPen feast your eyes
on that that is if there's a cool
drawing isn't it
and I also want to shout out to Amanda
as well because Amanda sent me this
adorable picture of a little baby
crested gecko which I absolutely love
and everything from letters and pictures
I'm going to put all of them up on my
wall because I love every single one
thank you all so much you gotta go I
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