Veeries stay mum at night to avoid becoming owl dinner

Phys.org- 'When the sun hits the ground and the owl's been around, veeries nary make a sound.' It's a familiar quotation you've never heard before, but one buoyed up as a modern truism thanks to recent research conducted in part by a biologist at Texas Tech University.

"When the sun hits the ground and the owl's been around, veeries nary make a sound." It's a familiar quotation you've never heard before, but one buoyed up as a modern truism thanks to recent research conducted in part by a biologist at Texas Tech University.

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