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to brains on from american public media. I'm rosalind, and
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i'm moll. Ok. Before we get back to eyes, we need to go back to our ears first. Let's hear the mystery sound one more time. Gas it before you said a seal may be a sea gull. Do you any new guesses? I
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think that id stay where i was. I guess
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some kind of animal, some
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kind of animal that's fairly
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well. Here is the answer. So
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the sound you just heard is the call of a bald eagle. My name is tiffany plon, and i am the a b and care manager of the national eagle centre.
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Did you know that?
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Have you heard an eagle? I have actually at our cabin. I hear them all the time. It's
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hard when you hear these sounds out of context, you know, it's likelik you could hear something super familiar to you, and when you hear it out a context, it's super hard. But that cold you get to hear bald eagles. I've never heard a bald eagle before. That's not what i would imagine. Loudsa, very loud. Are they obnoxious like you thought? Sometimes
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it it's cooling here then though. The
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national eagle centre is in wabasha, minnesota. They educate people about these winged wonders. And if you are surprised that that was the sound of a bald eagle, you're not alone. Tiffany says, most people think a bald eagle sounds like this,
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but that's not a bald eagle. When you see eagles and movies and commercials and you see them flying around, do you always hear that really loud, majestic caw sound? And that's actually a red tailed howk sound, and they dub over an eagle sound with it. Cool
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trivio rite. But back to eagles. They have some of the sharpest vision in animal land, in part because their eyes are super special. Eagle
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eyes are pretty unique in the fact that they have actually two vocal points in their eyes, or fulbia. And so they have a kind of bonocular vision like we do, where they can see straightforward. But then they have a monocular vision that goes off about forty five degrees in each eye.
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So imagine being able to see very clearly what's ahead of you, but also what's lurking at the side of your vision, you
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can see that clearly too. And by going back and forth between them, they can get this really distinct kind of threed vision. And so that's how they have such fantastic death perception. This
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helps them hunt tiny critters like rabbits and rats. Tiffany says eagles also have extremely large eyes compared to their head size, and they can see ultra violet light. Over
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all, their vision is four to five times better than ours. Instance, we have some fun comparisons, like an eagle if they were sitting on top of a ten story building could look down and actually see a carpenter, a ant, walking along the sidewalk.
