For a photo opportunity at a wildlife rescue center,

the director placed a pair of orphaned western screech owl chicks next to an orphaned great-horned owl baby. His intention was to demonstrate the size differences in these young birds, but as we can see, the screech owls apparently thought they saw much more ....

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If it looks as big as mom, and has feathers like mom, then ....

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