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What the Owl Knows: The New Science of the World’s Most Enigmatic Birds: A Book Review

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They are also hunted. Wolf Lichen is rich in toxic vulpinic acid and in the old days was boiled up with meat and used to poison wolves. They roost and hunt, at night (mostly) when we can’t see them. “Well, that’s great,” you may be saying, “but what does that have to do with owls?

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