{"id":610448,"date":"2025-08-08T08:00:00","date_gmt":"2025-08-08T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.earthrangers.com\/EN\/CA\/?p=610448"},"modified":"2025-08-07T11:50:28","modified_gmt":"2025-08-07T15:50:28","slug":"how-do-owls-see-in-the-dark","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.earthrangers.com\/EN\/CA\/all\/how-do-owls-see-in-the-dark\/","title":{"rendered":"How do owls see in the dark?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><a><\/a>Owls have amazing night-vision. Do you know why? One of the reasons is that their big, EPIC eyes have way more rods than ours do. Rods are special cells that let us see things in low light. The more rods someone has, the better they can see in the dark.<\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-full is-resized\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.earthrangers.com\/EN\/US\/wp-content\/uploads\/ALAAOwlVisual_1.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-604459\" style=\"width:500px\"\/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading has-text-align-center\"><strong>&nbsp;Can you spot the light like an owl<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>Owls don\u2019t need light to see, but we do! And keeping things bright can use a lot of electricity. When that electricity is made by burning fossil fuels, it can directly impact the planet. It creates a lot of greenhouse gases, which contribute to climate change.<\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-full is-resized\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.earthrangers.com\/EN\/US\/wp-content\/uploads\/ALAAOwlVisual_2.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-604460\" style=\"width:762px\"\/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>Every smart owl knows that using less electricity helps save energy and cuts down on pollution! So, when you turn ON a light, be sure to turn it OFF when you\u2019re done using it.<\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-large is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"777\" src=\"https:\/\/www.earthrangers.com\/EN\/US\/wp-content\/uploads\/54Feature-1024x777.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-580863\" style=\"width:501px\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.earthrangers.com\/EN\/CA\/wp-content\/uploads\/54Feature-1024x777.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.earthrangers.com\/EN\/CA\/wp-content\/uploads\/54Feature-300x228.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.earthrangers.com\/EN\/CA\/wp-content\/uploads\/54Feature-768x583.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.earthrangers.com\/EN\/CA\/wp-content\/uploads\/54Feature-80x60.jpg 80w, https:\/\/www.earthrangers.com\/EN\/CA\/wp-content\/uploads\/54Feature-160x120.jpg 160w, https:\/\/www.earthrangers.com\/EN\/CA\/wp-content\/uploads\/54Feature-696x528.jpg 696w, https:\/\/www.earthrangers.com\/EN\/CA\/wp-content\/uploads\/54Feature-1392x1056.jpg 1392w, https:\/\/www.earthrangers.com\/EN\/CA\/wp-content\/uploads\/54Feature-1068x811.jpg 1068w, https:\/\/www.earthrangers.com\/EN\/CA\/wp-content\/uploads\/54Feature-553x420.jpg 553w, https:\/\/www.earthrangers.com\/EN\/CA\/wp-content\/uploads\/54Feature-1107x840.jpg 1107w, https:\/\/www.earthrangers.com\/EN\/CA\/wp-content\/uploads\/54Feature.jpg 1485w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>You can be the light patrol at home: make sure lights aren\u2019t left on when no one\u2019s using them. It\u2019s a small job, but it makes a big difference!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\"><strong>Don\u2019t forget to log this habit in the Act Like an Animal Challenge!<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-large is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"595\" src=\"https:\/\/www.earthrangers.com\/EN\/CA\/wp-content\/uploads\/Canada-only-ALAA-SponsorPlate-EN_deacd5915de37e24-1024x595.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-605963\" style=\"width:621px;height:auto\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.earthrangers.com\/EN\/CA\/wp-content\/uploads\/Canada-only-ALAA-SponsorPlate-EN_deacd5915de37e24-1024x595.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.earthrangers.com\/EN\/CA\/wp-content\/uploads\/Canada-only-ALAA-SponsorPlate-EN_deacd5915de37e24-300x174.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.earthrangers.com\/EN\/CA\/wp-content\/uploads\/Canada-only-ALAA-SponsorPlate-EN_deacd5915de37e24-768x446.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.earthrangers.com\/EN\/CA\/wp-content\/uploads\/Canada-only-ALAA-SponsorPlate-EN_deacd5915de37e24-150x87.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.earthrangers.com\/EN\/CA\/wp-content\/uploads\/Canada-only-ALAA-SponsorPlate-EN_deacd5915de37e24-696x404.jpg 696w, https:\/\/www.earthrangers.com\/EN\/CA\/wp-content\/uploads\/Canada-only-ALAA-SponsorPlate-EN_deacd5915de37e24-1068x620.jpg 1068w, https:\/\/www.earthrangers.com\/EN\/CA\/wp-content\/uploads\/Canada-only-ALAA-SponsorPlate-EN_deacd5915de37e24.jpg 1093w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Owls have amazing night-vision. Do you know why? One of the reasons is that their big, EPIC eyes have way more rods than ours do. Rods are special cells that let us see things in low light. The more rods someone has, the better they can see in the dark. &nbsp;Can you spot the light [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":179644,"featured_media":610450,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[931],"tags":[1870,1874,29,1932,63],"class_list":{"0":"post-610448","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-all","8":"tag-act-like-an-animal","9":"tag-alaa","10":"tag-light","11":"tag-light-switch","12":"tag-owl"},"pp_force_visibility":null,"pp_subpost_visibility":null,"pp_inherited_force_visibility":null,"pp_inherited_subpost_visibility":null,"acf":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.earthrangers.com\/EN\/CA\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/610448","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.earthrangers.com\/EN\/CA\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.earthrangers.com\/EN\/CA\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.earthrangers.com\/EN\/CA\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/179644"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.earthrangers.com\/EN\/CA\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=610448"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.earthrangers.com\/EN\/CA\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/610448\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":610449,"href":"https:\/\/www.earthrangers.com\/EN\/CA\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/610448\/revisions\/610449"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.earthrangers.com\/EN\/CA\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/610450"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.earthrangers.com\/EN\/CA\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=610448"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.earthrangers.com\/EN\/CA\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=610448"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.earthrangers.com\/EN\/CA\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=610448"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}