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"Owl Odyssey" is the 4th episode of Season 7 of the PBS Kids show Wild Kratts. It is the 156th episode of the series overall. It premiered on May 25, 2023.
Synopsis[]
When the Wild Kratts gets marooned and lost a world away from the Tortuga, they must embark on a long journey home. The gang finds inspiration in several owls that they encounter along the way. As owls live on every continent except Antarctica, Aviva thinks it must be a sign. She has enough supplies and power to make one Creature Power Suit and one only and ultimately it's up to Owl Power whether or not they ever get back home.
Characters[]
Animals[]
Animation[]
Note: Featured animals are in bold.
- Barn Owl: Nobody
- Great Horned Owl
- Powerful Owl
- Pel's Fishing Owl
- Burrowing Owl
- Great Grey Owl
- Eurasian Eagle-owl
- Hippopotamus (called hippo): Hipster
- Laughing Gull
- Grizzly Bear
- Koala
- Raccoon
- Bottlenose Dolphin
- European Pilchard (called fish)
- Red Fox
- Nine-banded Armadillo (called armadillo)
- Meadow Vole
- American Red Squirrel
- Black-capped Chickadee
Mentioned[]
Note: Mentioned animals are linked to Wikipedia.
Live Action[]
Note: Live action animals are linked to Wikipedia.
- Eastern screech owl (called screech owl)
- Northern saw-whet owl (called saw-whet owl)
- Northern hawk-owl
- Snowy owl
- Barred owl
- Cottontail rabbit (called rabbits)
- Hooded skunk (called skunks)
- Canada goose (called geese)
- Short-eared owl
Trivia[]
- This is their third owl episode, the first two being "Desert Elves" and "Snowy Owl Invasion".
- Many aspects of the episode, including the title, are references to Homer's The Odyssey.
Key Facts and Creature Moments[]
- Owls live on every continent of the world, except Antarctica.
- There are 268 species of owls in the world.
- A powerful owl attempting to catch a koala.
- A Pel's fishing owl catching a fish.
- Fishing owls use their incredible eyesight to catch fish. They can see tiny ripples on the surface of the water, even at night.
- Owls have fixed eyes in the shape of cylinders.
- Owls can swivel their heads three-quarters of the way around since they can't move their eyeballs like humans can.
- Owls flight feathers, like those of the barn owl, have soft downy edges that muffle sound for stealth. Most birds make sounds when they fly, but owls fly without a sound.
- The "ears" of some owls, like the great horned owl, are just longer feathers. They're probably for appearance and camouflage. An owl's ears are holes underneath the feathers.
- Lots of owls, like the great grey owl, have one ear higher up and one ear lower down. That way the sound reaches each ear at slightly different times, and the owl brain has special mapping capabilities that can use those times to compute and pinpoint exactly where the sound is coming from. It's called triangulation.
- The feathers make an owl's whole face the shape of a dish, like a sonar dish, to collect sound and direct it to their ears.
- Great grey owl hunting for rodents hidden beneath the snow.
- Burrowing owls can be found in both North and South America, and live burrows made by other animals.
- Eurasian eagle-owls are one of the largest and most powerful species of owl.
- Eurasian eagle-owls will eat anything they can catch, hunting rodents, foxes, young deer and even other owls.
- Eurasian eagle-owl attempting to hunt a great grey owl.
- The saw-whet owl is one of the smallest owls in North America. (Live action segment)
- Most owls are nocturnal raptors, the few owl species active during the day include the burrowing owl, the snowy owl and the northern hawk owl.
- Northern hawk owls are the only owls known to actively fly in groups.