Saturday, September 3, 2011

Owls have the ability to rotate their head all the way 360 degrees

An owl's neck has 14 vertebrae, which is twice as many as humans. This allows the owl to turn its head up to 270 degrees left or right from the forward facing position. In other words, they could start by facing 12 0'clock and turn their heads in a clock wise direction until facing roughly 9pm - impressive, but still not a full 360 degrees.

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