Fang Ye said expectantly, "Three days should have been enough for it to get pretty hungry, right? I feel pretty hopeful about tonight."
Lin Ying responded, "If we can’t catch anything in these next two days, we’ll just have to go back to doing so basic training with them."
They whispered in discussion.
As Fang Ye chatted, he continually rotated the night-vision device, looking at the white heat signatures.
Several collared scops owlets were evenly dispersed on perches around the cage!
One of them, perhaps out of hunger, paced back and forth on a high perch.
Suddenly, Fang Ye saw a white shadow appear beneath, in the small grass hut, his eyes lighting up, "Here it cos, here it cos! A mouse is here!"
The mouse moved very cautiously!
It lingered at the entrance of its burrow, peeking out and surveying its surroundings.
Just as it stepped out, it suddenly heard a lodious bird call and "swish" it quickly ran back into its hole.
However, the corn kernels in the feed pan were very enticing to it, wafting over a very appetizing scent.
It cautiously poked its head out again, skirting the edge of the cage.
When it got close to the feed pan, it darted over quickly.
Stepping on the leaves on the ground, making a faint rustling sound.
Owls not only have great vision at night but also very keen hearing!
The round face can funnel sound waves to the ears, allowing them to hear even the faintest noises distinctly.
The random grass and leaves spread on the cage floor mimic the environnt of mice moving through the forest, training their ability to locate by sound.
The owlets might have been sowhat bewildered, wondering why there hadn’t been any food appearing in front of them like before during the past few days?
Their stomachs were so hungry.
Hearing the sound of a mouse running over the leaves, they looked towards the direction of the sound.
A few glanced at it unconcernedly and remained motionless on their perches.
However, a couple seed a bit interested.
In the past two days, they saw the mouse running around, but they weren’t hungry and stayed put, waiting for food to appear, which never ca.
Today, their stomachs were quite empty, and suddenly, they realized the food was right in front of them! Wasn’t this sothing they had eaten before?
The mouse ran up to the feed pan and began to quietly eat the corn.
One collared scops owlet stretched its neck to carefully observe this mouse, while another could no longer hold back. Its hunting instinct was triggered, it flapped its wings like a bomber plane diving down and called out loudly!
"Oh~"
Watching the night-vision device, Fang Ye and the others imdiately widened their eyes!
The mouse was eating heartily when it suddenly heard a calling sound overhead. It was so frightened that it shook all over, nearly losing its soul!
It turned to run away but was promptly pinned to the ground by sharp talons, its neck firmly caught in a sharp beak.
The mouse struggled with all its remaining strength, twisting its body trying to escape.
The collared scops owlet, though it had caught the mouse, seed a bit unsure of what to do, stamping its feet trying to hold it down. The mouse had already sustained a fatal wound to its neck, and its struggle was rely a dying gasp; soon it fell silent.
On the heat imagery, the body of the mouse slowly turned from white to black, perfectly illustrating what it ans to have cooled off.
Turning on the flashlight and shining it over, everyone saw clearly the owlet holding the mouse.
Its round eyes looked towards them, slightly confused, but its mood was mostly one of joy.
Tonight, it wouldn’t have to go to bed hungry!
Having witnessed such an exciting hunt, Lan Li exclaid happily, "Wow, little guy, you did so well!"
Fang Ye laughed and said, "Not bad, this one seems like a top student."
Lin Ying nodded her head in agreent, showing a relieved expression, and then switched off her flashlight, "Hunting class graduation!"
Thinking about setting up the terrain for these little guys, attracting wild mice with food, it was worth the effort in the end.
These hunting skills could not be taught by humans and without parental demonstrations, the owls had to rely on their own instincts.
Having graduated from such a realistic simulation training, they were considered to have qualified hunting abilities and could survive in the wild.
...
Tonight, only the collared scops owlet caught a mouse and filled its belly!
However, in the following days, with the lead of the high-achieving peers, the other owlets also began to imitate and successfully caught mice.
After learning to hunt, the old students moved to new enclosures to start training in hiding and avoiding people, which was relatively simpler than the hunting training.
During the day, if the staff saw them outside instead of staying inside their nests, they would prod them with a stick.
It wasn’t hitting them; a gentle touch from the stick would startle the owls into fluttering away.
The owls would realize that as long as they stayed quietly in their nests, they wouldn’t be harassed, but if they stayed outside, soone would continually poke them with a stick.
Those that didn’t know to fly back would be caught by the staff and stuffed back into their nests.
The night was the owls’ domain, and although they were mighty at night, they would still be preyed upon if spotted by other more formidable birds of prey during the day.
Therefore, it was necessary to train them to hide during the day in the dense foliage or tree holes and stay still, coming out only at night to be active.
It was also about fostering their fear of humans, teaching them to hide further away upon seeing people; otherwise, they might encounter dangers like slingshots and glue traps.
...
Xinghe University.
The calculus teacher finished a problem and looked down at the students with a sowhat displeased face.
Frowning, he sighed and said, "Hey, don’t sleep during class! Always your eyes... why don’t you even keep your eyes open? What are you here for?
I’m really baffled, how can you sleep like this? College is not supposed to be like this."
Liu Wei nudged Zhu Yu under the desk.
Zhu Yu was dozing off, dazed, with even a trickle of drool at the corner of his mouth.
Having played League of Legends late into the previous night and then staying up to read novels, he couldn’t understand calculus and thought it was a good ti to take a nap.
Startled awake by the nudge, he quickly propped up his calculus textbook in front of his face, "What’s happening, what’s happening?"
Liu Wei whispered, "Stop sleeping, Old Tang is getting angry!"
Zhu Yu let out a sigh of relief, "I thought the counselor ca to check on the class."
Right at this mont, a commotion suddenly erupted in the classroom, even leading to so people screaming.
Old Tang furrowed his brows, "What’s going on now, are we still having class or not?"
"A duck!"
"A duck flew in here!"
The class that had been dozy and full of sleeping students was now fully alert!
Even so students stood up, excitedly looking in the direction from which the screams had co, and Liu Wei was no exception.
Curiously looking over, he actually saw a yellow duck, which was currently standing on a classmate’s desk.
Flapping its wings, "quack-quack" calling out, it seed to have been startled by the noise and started to frantically run across the desks.
Liu Wei blurted out, "Hey, isn’t that the ruddy shelduck from Waterfowl Lake?"
Gao Kaijin said excitedly, "A duck from the zoo has flown out!"
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