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ORGANIC SYSTEMS AND EVOLUTION. The ears of the owl are not only in line with an overall complicated design but they also stand out among all animal ears. The right and left outer ears in an owl are directed slightly differently in bearing to each other. is so unique and precise in its intricacies as enables the owl to hunt for its prey in absolute darkness without ever making a mistake. . Intrigued by this uncanny ability of the owl, the scientific community of the world has performed the fantastic task of exactly defining the owl's hearing system with the most sophisticated electronic devices. To our knowledge the greatest work on this was carried out by. Masakazu Konishi, Bing Professor of Behavioural Biology at the California Institute of Technology and his colleagues. . Their work was published in Scientific American, April 1993. Although we bank largely on this article for the following information our brief description does not do justice to the great intricate work. Anyone interested in more scientific and mathematical data would be amply rewarded by reading that great scholarly thesis. . The unique auditory mechanism enables the owl to detect the feeblest sound emitted by the flutter of a mouse beneath fallen leaves in the dead of night. He knows 500 === Н. FL. ALLATIVI