Wilbur The Barn Owl Interesting Facts
This is my adopted son Wilbur the barn owl, with the heart shaped face who has my heart and lives at the Koret Animal Resource Center at the San Francisco zoo. Read about Wilbur's adoption here . I am using Wilbur as an example to bring you some interesting facts about barn owls in general. Barn owls have acute hearing with their ears being asymmetrical. On a barn owl their ears are covered by feathers with one ear being on the top right side of their head and the other being on the low left hand side. They work like cell phone towers with sounds bouncing off of each other. If a barn owl were blind, he would still be able to hunt for food using his keen sense of hearing. Their eyes are tubular in shape which means that they do not have peripheral vision. That is why they have to turn their heads up to 270 degrees to see around them. They have no sense of smell at all and is why they have a heightened sense or hearing. Wilbur also has d...