Can I Please Get Some Owl Facts? Cursed Or Blessed Is Fine

Can I please get some owl facts? Cursed or blessed is fine

have you ever wondered: how the fuck did that owl just pop a perfect 180° kickflip with its goddam head?

well, good question! if you were to try it yourself, not only would you pop your noggin right off like your momma always warned you would happen if you kept leaning backwards over your chair like that, you'd also induce rapid brain death by kinking up the carotid arteries in your neck and preventing blood flow!

so how do owls pull this off?

well, two ways: the owl's carotid artery is buried deep inside their neck right next to their spine so it doesn't have very far to twist, aaaaaand also it turns out that owls have an emergency blood reserve right at the base of their skull.

this reserve is full of oxygenated blood that can be dumped directly to the owl's brain if they should happen to get a semi-lethal kink in their neck!

owie.

but this doesn't change the fact that every owl in existence is about one accident away from becoming the world's most morbid solo waterballoon fight, and you had no idea.