Our family was known to take in stray wild animals, birds that fell from nests, snakes, baby squirrels we had a few Raptors to nurse and raise. BTW if you ever find one that needs help grab it by the legs and turn it upside down. Trust me, you do not want it to grab you in its extremely strong talons or be bitten. Gloves only after that.
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Regulating axon lengths to generate precise delay lines is exactly how the owl brain uses interaural time differences for sound localization (first discovered by Mark Konishi in barn owls).
The delays (at least for sound localization) aren’t modified, but the detection neurons reading out the delays can be modified in real time which owls use to predict the future location of moving sound sources (work of Eric Knudsen, one of Konishi’s former students)
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IKR? But owl we know if it gets better?
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This is why mine are always stuck in my hair. 
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I have the opposite problem, hair stuck in my ears!
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