From Aditya Sapre

Dusky eagle owl vs rufous treepie. Feb. 2026

Near jabalpur City Madhya Pradesh.

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    I’ve seen posts on both of those pop up this month. The painted dogs in the story i mentioned, and i think some center or zoo was promoting the birth of the killer cat, the black-footed cat, though googling it, that’s a 60% success rate. Checking for owls, the 2 studies that popped up first has Snowies around 50% and Screech Owls at 56% on vertabrates and 83% on invertebrates. Take that, black-footed land owl.

    I forget if I’ve seen the black-footed cat, but I have seen the dogs a few times. I’m a fan.

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          I was jogging once, young deerflies were following me, landing on my head constantly, forgot a hat. For like 4 miles, just constant, until I passed a pond, and the dragonflies came out, zipped around me, no more flies.

          They are really cool, unfortunately, their whatchacallit, life in the water, they target tadpoles too, which themselves are the greatest destroyer of parasitic insect larvae. They are malicious looking too, they’ve a spear of sorts they impale their victims on. Cool to watch if a bit macabre.

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              They don’t follow their prey, they anticipate their movements, which is singular as far as we know. Their flying ability is second to none, and their vision incredible, they’ve way more eyes than flies and the like which have hundreds, I forget.

              Their sex is weird, they join and fuck in the air. A male that finds a female already fucked will grab her, it has a scoop it uses to remove the semen of the previous male, and then mates, in the air, can’t recall the name for it at the moment.

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                Wow, they know how to live a wild and crazy life! I know they can play dead if they don’t want to mate.