Eagle Owls Send Sweeter Valentines When Moon Is Full
Thursday, January 21, 2010 - 11:56
in Psychology & Sociology
(PhysOrg.com) -- Placing a tracking device on breeding owls with a wing span large enough to cover eight humans lined up side-by-side, is not a walk in the park. But, funded by a grant from the Spanish Ministry of Science and Innovation, four biologists from Spain, Finland, and Portugal sought to find out how the Eurasian Eagle Owl's (the Bubo bubo) communication behavior is affected by moonlight. The study is one of the few that have looked at intraspecies communication of nocturnal birds and the findings provide further evidence lunar cycles affect the behaviors of animal species.