Owls are generally feared. Most people take them to have links with the occult and the prescence of an owl near the fence or a tree near the compound would be taken as a bad omen. Whether this is out of superstition or not is neither here nor there. The fact remaini that they look strange or intimidating at the same time. Their eyes tell it all with their unmistakable wide and circular shape and a hard eerie glint. Things are not made any better by the fact that they make a peculiar moaning sound especially at night. They also seem to be clandestine and are not easy to see during the day. It night be that they are nocturnal. Would you keep an owl as a pet? Anyone?
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