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Recordings of Owl Sounds and Squirting of Fake Poop Used to Make Relocated Owls Feel More at HomeScientists have come up with some interesting tricks to relocate owls to their new homes. Because of real estate, some owls who reside in prime locations for construction and development get removed from their natural habitats. To protect these owls, biologists tried moving them to protected grasslands. This move seems easy at a glance, but the real challenge in relocating these animals is to help them accept their new homes.Following the said challenge, scientists attempted to create the impression that other owls have lived in the new homes so the owls would stick around. They did this by playing owl sounds and scattering fake poop. It worked! “They like to be in a neighborhood, to live near other owls,” said Colleen Wisinski, a conservation biologist at the San Diego Zoo Wildlife Alliance.Image credit: Ken Bohn/San Diego Zoo Wildlife Alliance#owls #relocations #animals #science #biology

Small Fish Rained From the Sky in Texarkana, TexasIt’s raining fish, hallelujah! Just kidding. Residents in east Texas reported an instance of ‘fish rain’ in their area during a rainstorm. This unique event happened around late afternoon.According to James Audirsch, one of the witnesses, he and his co-worker heard loud noises and looked outside to see fish falling from the sky! “There was a loud crack of thunder and when we opened up the bay door,” he said. “I looked outside and it was raining real hard and a fish hit the ground, and then I said, ‘It’s raining fish!’ Brad was like, ‘No it’s not,’ and I’m like, ‘No, it really is!’ and fish were droppin’ here and everywhere.”According to experts, this was because of a rare meteorological phenomenon when a water spout over a body of water sucks up small creatures such as fish and frogs. This spout then carries them along and drops them, which causes a unique type of rain. I wonder what kind of animal rain will be next?Image credit: Bradd Pratt via ArkLaTex Homepage#rain #nature #meteorology #fishrain #fish #science