text: [Themes: edutainment, animal perspective]
  
  One night in October your mother, after 42 days of sitting on your egg, gave you life, a happy little bundle of joy, a boobook owl.
  
  You watch the days pass as your mother and father fly back and forth during dawn and dusk to find small insects and such for you to eat. You hear them calling 'boo-book' and 'mo-poke' to each other so that they know where each other is and so you know where they are. You're having a happy life until one tragic day, when you were exactly 50 days old, when your parents die because of cats. You nearly die as well but managed to survive, though you are very weak. Unfortunately, your brother who was born about 5 minutes before died as well.
  
  [Author's Note: You are a boobook owl and you have just been born. Your mother is frantically looking after you and you know that your time to mature will come soon. This is about you and your life, you need to survive in the life of a boobook owl.]
  
  > go to a random person so that they can look after you
  You crawl to your feet and fly up to one of the trees. You slept there until night time so that you can regain your strength.
  
  Unfortunately, you fall out of the tree, but fortunately for you instead of finding a person, someone found you and took you to his home.
  
  You live another few happy years, until your owners decides to take an overseas trip to Africa. Thinking you can understand his speech, he asks you if you want to go.
  
  You:
  
  > Sulk, which means no
  You start sulking, hoping that your owner will take than as a no. After all Boobook Owls can't go to Africa! Too much heat and definitely no trees, there isn't even any alive Boobooks there.
  
  Your owner understands you like he should, and leaves you at home. Unfortunately he forgot to ask someone to feed you and you go hungry.
  
  An occasional spider crawls into your cage and you eat it with glee, though it can't sustain you. You die from hunger.
  
  > Epilogue
  *This page and the next page is information about the Boobook owl, not an actual epilogue*
  
  The Boobook owl's binomial name is Ninox novaseelandiae, and it is part of the following groups:
  
  Kingdom: Animalia
  
  This means that the Boobook owl is multicellular, heterotrophic and eukaryote.
  
  Multicellular means that it has more than 1 cell, heterotrophic means that it doesn't produce food by itself, and eukaryotes means that it has the type of cells tha animals have.
  
  Phylum: Chordata
  
  This means that the Boobook owl has a backbone.
  
  Class: Aves
  
  This means that the Boobook Owl has water proof skin covered in feather, is warm blooded, lays hard-shelled eggs that are also water proof. Either has a beak or a bill and walks on 2 legs.
  
  Order: Strigiformes
  
  Strigiformes is basically another word for 'owl'.
  
  They have sharp ears, keen eyes, are nocturnal and their heads can rotate 270 degrees.
  
  Family: Strigidae
  
  Strigidae are typical owls and not barn owls.
  
  They ave round facial disks, hooked bill, a compact body, moderately short tail, strong feet, sharp talons, large head, and it's plumage is soft.
  
  Genus: Ninox
  
  The Ninox's are owls that have better eyesight that the Tyto's (Another Genus type of owls, who have better hearing). Because of this, they are known as the seeing owls, and they hunt during the dawn and dusk using their excellent vision.
  
  Species: novaeseelandiae
  
  > Epilogue part II
  *You might find that a few bits of information on this page has been embedded into the story.*
  
  The Boobook owl lives in Australia, New Zealand, the Lesser Sunda Island, New Guinea and Timor Island. It can live anywhere in those part, if there are trees, especially Eucalyptus trees.
  
  Below is a map of the habitat:
  
  http://www.owlpages.com/pictures/range_maps/range-Ninox-boobook.jpg
  
  The special structures of a Boobook owl is that it's plumage is a dark chocolate brown above and rufous brown with a bit of white below. It's bill is grey with a dark tip, and it's feet are grey and yellow. It's eyes are very large and is yellow.
  
  Below is a picture of what it looks like:
  
  http://animalia-life.com/data_images/southern-boobook-owl/southern-boobook-owl3.jpg
  
  The special behaviours of a boobook owl is that when it is threatened, it sits bolt upright with it's feathers pressed against it's body, it side faces the threat so that it appears to be long and slender.
  
  Like most animals, the Boobook Owl uses its nostrils and lungs to breathe.
  
  Boobook Owls lay eggs around the late winter and the early summer, usually 2 or 3 at a time, the eggs are small, round and white. The female Boobook, usually incubates the eggs for about a month before it hatches.
  
  Boobook Owls like to eat different types of food, including beetles, spider, rodents and crickets. These ground dwelling animals are pounced on to be caught, while moths, and bats are seized in the air.
  
  Predators of the Boobook Owl are cats, sometimes, when both the mother and the father are out hunting leaving the nest alone, rats come in and kill the babies. Another potential threat is humans, humans cut down so much trees that it doesn't leave any room for the owls to reproduce, therefore killing them.
  
  Some other interesting facts are that when they communicate they use the call 'boo-book', hence it's name, and 'mo-poke' which is another type of Owl similar to the Boobook.
  
  Below is a few pictures of the Boobook Owl
  
  https://c2.staticflickr.com/6/5022/5654433354_34bc87051e.jpg (flying)
  
  http://loladax.dnsalias.net/gallery2/d/24795-2/11-Aus-AliceSprings-30.jpg (tilting head)
  
  By the way there is no Hyperlink, so to access the pictures, please copy and paste the URL in another tab.