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Comment by shellfishgene

5 hours ago

He did use a IR stroboscope and a camera, as owls can apparently not see IR.

But in that case this bit of TFA feels a bit out of place:

> To eliminate the possibility that the owl was [...] detecting heat from the body of the mouse (for instance, by sensing infrared light emitted by a warm body), the experiment is repeated with a mouse-sized wad of paper dragged through the leaves