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From The Owl Orphanage. Velddrif

The expressions....

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From World Bird Sanctuary

My what big eyes you have!

Owls, like Uxmal the Spectacled Owl, have very large eyes to help with their excellent night vision.

Most owl eyes are around 5% of the bird's body weight. That might not sound like much, but human eyes are only 0.0003% of our body weight.

Owls have additional adaptations in their eyes that help make them the perfect nighttime predator. They can dilate their pupils incredibly wide to bring more light into the eyes, and they can even control how much each eye individually dilates.

Like humans, owls have cones to distinguish color and rods to detect light, however owls have significantly more rods to cones than humans.

Behind an owl eye's rod-packed retina is another layer called the tapetum lucidum, which catches any light that may have passed through the retina and bounces it back to those sensitive rods.

All of these adaptations give these birds the perfect vision for hunting at night.

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Asked [...] if Estonia would be willing to host Britain’s future fleet of F-35A fighters, defence minister Hanno Pevkur replied, “I’m always open. The door is always open for allies.”

The comments follow the incursion of three Russian MiG-31s into Estonian skies last week. The aircraft, flying without transponders or flight plans, remained over the Gulf of Finland for twelve minutes before being escorted out by Italian F-35s from Ämari airbase.

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Western leaders urged caution over escalating the stand-off. Mr Pevkur said NATO’s response should be “proportionate” and decided “case-by-case.” Donald Tusk, the Polish prime minister, struck a harder line, declaring: “We will shoot down any flying objects when they violate our territory and fly over Poland. There is absolutely no discussion over that.”

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For Estonia, NATO’s smallest frontline state, the latest incursion [of Russian drones] was a stark reminder of its reliance on allied air power. “The question is not whether Russia will try again,” one official said, “but how we will respond.”

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I am out of the loop. How did today become rapture day? I am having family members being silly about this. How did this even start?

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Who wants to use a proprietary app for something like that and let it collect data? The FOSS ecosystem lacks some essential stuff

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