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Michaela Strachen explores how a barn owl is adapted to be a successful predator. She explains how an owl has evolved to have a curved beak to catch prey, feather adaption for silent flight, lots of extra bones in their neck which enables them to move their head around, and how their ears are adapted to enable them to pinpoint where a sound comes from.

Evolution is about compromise, Michaela gives the example that an owl’s eyes are very large so that they can see better in the dark but this means that they cannot move their eyes from side to side.