Owls are considered to be zygodactyls, which means that several of the toes on these animals face forward and the other two face backward. This is no mistake on nature’s part; in fact owls have these types of feet so that they can easily grab onto the prey on the ground without much effort at all.
In some cases an owl can actually rotate a third toe to the front when they want to perch on a tree branch or something else. The fact that they are zygodactyls just makes them even better more efficient hunters of their prey.
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