Fang Ye quoted scriptures and said: "For a long time, the owl was considered a symbol of bad luck among the people, a kind of bird that people feared and hated, called 'night owl', and related sayings were prejudiced and derogatory.

What 'night owls enter the house, good things don't come', 'Wu Dalang plays with night owls, who plays with what birds', 'I'm not afraid of night owls barking, I'm afraid of night owls laughing'.

There is a legend about the laughter of owls, that is, when a long-term sick person hears the owl laughing in front of the window, it is actually counting the eyebrows, and when the eyebrows are counted, the patient will die.

There is such a paragraph in "Smiling Proud Jianghu", saying that Ling Hu Chong was seriously injured, and when Lu Dayou was taking care of him at night, he suddenly heard the owl crying outside, and he was terrified, so he immediately dipped his finger in some saliva and wiped it on Ling Hu Chong's eyebrows, so that the owl was difficult to count.

Lu Xun also said, 'Sometimes I never want to seek victory in the world of speech, because my speech is sometimes a loud cry and reports a great bad thing.' ’”

"Lu Xun: I really said this!"

"I used to think that night owls meant cats that spring at night, but it turned out to refer specifically to owls."

"I've heard my grandmother tell the legend of owl laughter!"

“66666！”

Fang Ye continued: "The owl is so hated by people and regarded as a symbol of bad luck, one is because it is indeed more mysterious, it always haunts the wilderness when the moon is dark and the wind is high, making a terrible cry, eating some rat carrion and other things, people naturally associate it with negative images such as disease and death.

And owls also have a habit, after they eat food, after a period of time, they will spit out the indigestible bones and fur, and the spit out is a lump, which is called a food ball. Many carnivorous birds of prey actually have this kind of vomiting behavior.

The ancients could not understand this strange behavior, so they opened their minds and thought that the owl was eating their mother.

Think of it as an unfilial, vicious, and cruel bird!

Especially in the Han Dynasty, which promoted filial piety, the owl was considered an unfilial bird, and you can know how miserable it was.

The interpretation of the owl in "Shuowen Jie Zi" is: "Unfilial piety birds." day, catch the devil. From the bird's head on the wood. ’

It means that such an unfilial bird will catch and cut off its head when it sees it during the day, and hang its head on a tree to warn its kind.

"Han Gongyi" even recorded, "On the summer solstice, give hundreds of officials soup, and want to be desperate." ’

It is said that the emperor will give the minister soup made of owls, and encourage everyone in the world to catch and eat it.

Here is a reminder that all animals in the wild carry all kinds of disease-causing bacteria and parasites, remember not to eat wild meat! ”

Netizens are stupid!

"Damn, it looks like owls are so miserable!"

"It's even more wronged than Dou E, and for no reason, he was saddled with a cauldron of unfilial piety, and he was killed in various ways."

"Fortunately, there are no such superstitions now."

"Poor owl!"

"Eh, the cruelest thing is actually people."

"Hmm...... I suspect that the ancients just wanted to eat it without psychological burden, so they put such an infamy on it! ”

Fang Ye said: "Owls are misunderstood and infamous, but they are actually real rat catchers, according to statistics, an owl can eat an average of 1,000 mice a year.

The monkey-faced eagle looks like a ghost, and it is even more ferocious when it catches mice, and can eat 2,000 rats in a single summer.

The long-eared owl with particularly obvious ear feather clusters has been analyzed by ornithologists and found that 97% of the long-eared owl's diet is rodents.

During the breeding season, the long-eared owl catches mice in large numbers before the hatchlings hatch and stores them. Some say that long-eared owls are rodent-loving because they kill rats when they see them, although sometimes they don't eat them after killing them.

Compared with the cat's ability to catch rats and owls, it can be said that it is beyond the reach of dust!

However, with the deforestation of forests, habitat loss, and the capture and killing of owls, their numbers are now very small.

Having said so much, I hope to dispel some of everyone's prejudices and misunderstandings about owls, owls are actually a very cute kind of birds, if we don't protect them, we may only see them in movies in the future. ”

Netizens really didn't know much about owls before!

Either I've watched some videos of owls and think they're simply cute, or I've heard the owl's weird call at night, or I've heard some ominous legends about it, so I don't have a good feeling.

After listening to Fang Ye's explanation, they all refreshed their understanding, and they also had some respect for the owl.

"I don't feel so much about cows!"

"Just because you can catch rats, you should protect them!"

"Go to Special Love" rewarded 5 shrimp balls!

"Thousand Snow Ming Dynasty" rewarded 1 rice ball!

Fang Ye pondered for a moment: "I saw someone say owl cafes before, this is also popular in Japan, so sometimes the way Japan treats animals is really indescribable.

The Owl Cafe may be interesting to people, but it's not a great place for owls.

At the most basic level, owls are nocturnal animals, and night is a comfortable scene for them, but if the owl café is for guests to visit, it is impossible to close the curtain and turn off the lights, and watch the lights in the dark, right? Bright and harsh lights, music, noisy human conversations, and even petting are all intense stimuli for owls.

Many times you watch it be touched and you tighten your body, close your eyes, and look like you are enjoying it, but in fact, this is a sign of fear of stress.

Also, why do owls obediently stand in place, petted? Because they were shackled to their feet, they were chained to them and could not move. Even when you don't pick up customers during your break, you're on a leash.

Standing all year round is no different from standing and waiting to die.

Not only is it mentally harmful, but it can also bring problems such as muscle atrophy. Different types of owls are densely mixed together, this environment is easy to contract diseases, some small owls may still be in the recipe of the big owl, stay with natural enemies every day, is it a little chilling to substitute?

Of course, you can't get along well in this kind of environment, and it is said that in a café with only 30 owls, 7 of them die in a year, and some of them stand and fall straight from the wooden pole......

The origin of these owls is also a problem, the conditions for owl breeding are very harsh, you need to have a large range of territory in the wild to have the opportunity to breed, the cost of artificial breeding is very high, the popularity of this kind of owl café, in fact, has also given birth to the poaching of owl market, intensifying illegal poaching and trade.

The owl café does not promote the knowledge of conservation education, and the guests who have visited and smoked will only think that the owl is cute and want to buy one for themselves, rather than saying that they will protect the owl and donate to related institutions, which has been researched and investigated.

After the release of films including "Harry Potter" in 2001, the number of pet owls traded in Indonesia soared, from about 100 per year to 13,000 a year, a full 130-fold increase.

Owls are indeed very cute, but they are birds of prey, they need a wide territory, have sharp claws, call scary in the middle of the night, eat meat with a lot of consumption, and do not like to be touched by others, they need to have professional knowledge to take care of them, and they are not suitable for private breeding.

Many people buy it just for the sake of freshness and fun, and they may raise it to death, or after raising it for a period of time to understand these shortcomings, they hate it and don't want to raise it, and they discard the owl with a sick body at will.

Therefore, remind everyone that owls are second-class protected animals in China, and it is illegal for individuals to raise them in the first place, even if they are abroad, it is not recommended for everyone to raise them.

Owls are creatures with a unique charm, and although they are cute, we hope that everyone will like them in a suitable way. ”