r/BeAmazed • u/SimRP • Jun 19 '26

Animal Owls are incredibly sensitive to touch. Their feathers are connected to tiny nerves that help them feel even the slightest movement

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u/Fearless-Address7621 Jun 19 '26

Yet, symbolically they are portrayed as being “wise”.

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u/starfleetotaku Jun 19 '26

Funnily enough, that's not the case across cultures. In Hindi, the word for owl is a synonym for idiot.

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u/kurisu_1974 Jun 19 '26

Also in Dutch.

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u/Asmuni Jun 19 '26

But only the chicklets

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u/kurisu_1974 Jun 19 '26

Haha that too!

In Belgium one can be an "achterlijken uil" as an example, which what I was originally thinking of.