Harrassed by wildlife? (Read 659 times)

Try passing too close to an owl's nest. I was running on trails at dusk and kept thinking I saw a shadow out of the corner of my eye. Sudden darkness over me and I thought she was going to take me to the nest! I can only imagine what would have happened had I been wearing a toupee.

Try passing too close to an owl's nest. I was running on trails at dusk and kept thinking I saw a shadow out of the corner of my eye. Sudden darkness over me and I thought she was going to take me to the nest! I can only imagine what would have happened had I been wearing a toupee.

Amy, you know better than that. Owls don't attack runners; they are docile. You were running in middle TN, no doubt, and were likely attacked by a flying monkey. The mind cannot easily process the fantastical while under attack (or while running, as you do, at a high pace) and so it categorizes stimuli according to what it knows. It is very common, therefore, for runners to get attacked by monkeys and think them owls. They are not owls. They are monkeys. Winged monkeys. And they are angry. Be careful.