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  1. Owls have many many many adaptations. Being birds, they have feathers, lightweight hollow bones, loss of teeth, extremely efficient heart and circulatory system, amazing lungs and air-sac gas exchange system, water-conserving excretion system, quick brain, endothermic (warmblooded), and so on. Owls are even special for birds because they hunt live animals for food, and need extra advantages if they are going to out-smart their prey. They have two eyes on the front of their face, to see well in 3-D. Their eyes have enlarged over the ages to such a degree that the eyeball is no longer round; it is pear-shaped and fills the entire eye socket leaving no room for muscles. The retina of the eye is extremely dense with photo-receptor cells - mainly rods (more sensitive to low light) but also some cones (color vision). Ears are noticeably asymmetrical or lop-sided, to help pinpoint sounds vertically as well as horizontally. Feathers are soft, edges are comb-like, and the surface of each flight feather is fuzzy like velvet; this softness silences their flight. Face is flat to help catch sound waves and direct them towards the ears located behind the eyes under the feathers. Owls spit up "pellets" of indigestible bone and keratin-based structures (hair, feathers, claws, scales) of their prey. owl pages has some trustworthy information, illustrations, and photos they eat bananas and they only eat meat on Monday and call it meaty Monday.
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it has good eyesight and hearing and because of this, it is able to catch its prey.

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The adaptation for a owl is that it has big eyes to see in the dark

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