Huge, staring eyes, an eerie mobility of the head, a ghostly silent flight: owls, with their 200 subspecies, are among the most fascinating species of the entire bird world. Feared by all other birds as a predator, transfigured by humans as a symbol of wisdom and at the same time condemned as a messenger of death, the 'Queen of the Night' deserves careful, unprejudiced consideration. In this richly illustrated book, Desmond Morris unravels the dense pellet of the owl as a symbol of wisdom or even malice, traces its traces of superstitious significance in different times, cultures and arts, and also sheds light on the real life habits of this bird, which is still misunderstood as a strange owl. Picasso's morose domestic owl has an appearance as well as the relaxed eagle owl, because of which a game of the f.