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How Can Owls Rotate Their Heads

Description:Learn how owls can rotate their heads. Have you ever wondered how it is physically possible for an owl to turn its head so far around? A new study from researchers at Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine in Baltimore, Maryland have found that there are several attributes unique to an owl’s necks that allow the birds to turn their heads almost in a complete circle. The limited eye movement in owls makes it so that they have to turn their heads to see their periphery. Owls have twice as ma (1:08)

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