annantoinette:

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mabelmoments:

The owl and the pussycat: This picture - taken by Sheila Hassanein at Paignton Zoo Environmental Park in Devon - puts a new twist on the old nursery rhyme. It shows seven-year-old female Asiatic lion Indu and a tiny tawny owl chick which had fallen out of its nest. Paignton Zoo keeper Lucy Manning says: “The tawny owls nested in a lime tree in the lion enclosure. One day the chick just turned up on the ground. Indu peered at it for a while but then lost interest. I think it was too small to eat. We believe it got away - if she had eaten it there would have been fluff and feathers”

Picture: SHEILA HASSANEIN / SWNS. Telegraph UK

WHAT KIND OF OWL IS THAT?! I NEED IT!

it’s a tawny owl chick. that’s why it looks all fluffy because it’s feathers are not yet adult