Nature Animals Plants Geography on Instagram: "Follow @explainingthewild for the best nature, animal, planet, and geography content 🧠⚙️ Living underground provides these tiny, nine-inch-tall birds with a natural “climate control” system that moderates extreme temperatures and prevents dehydration during scorching summer days. However, this lifestyle comes with high stakes: once young owlets—called chicks—begin to emerge from the burrow at about two weeks old, they are incredibly vulnerab

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