Are owls wise, all-seeing and good luck – or harbingers of calamity?
Owls have extraordinary sight. It was believed that people could gain better vision by making a potion from the ash of owl eggs
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Author: Geoff Carpentier
Strange weather, stranger words to describe it
In the odds and sods category, hunch weather is windy and drizzly, so much so that one has to hunch over just to walk
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Strange weather and the words we use to describe it
Some of the thousands of words used to describe weather come from folklore, history, or superstition
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Do reptiles and amphibians actually hibernate during winter?
They use aquatic and subterranean habitats but they don’t actually hibernate – instead, they go through brumation
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Bird bullies are just protecting their resources
Sometimes we see smaller birds apparently bullying larger birds of prey. How is this possible?
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