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Jesus, it's like a fucking transformer

Even more dramatic transformation!

https://youtu.be/zr0f7W9QLZ4

I like how it's going absolutely nuts trying to intimidate the other owls, and especially the barn owl just doesn't give a shit.

the second one is an attempt to hide.

It looks like it's trying to be an eagle or a falcon

It's trying to look like a branch or twig. It's camouflage.

The Japanese said it was trying to look like a branch of a tree.

I highly doubt it, as hawks and owls very rarely ever even see each other, let alone interact. They evolved nocturnal vs diurnal sleep cycles as a way to fill two different temporal niches, such that they would not be directly competing for food. This response is very likely one to make itself a smaller target (or seem like a sickly or small, undesirable meal) to a predating owl species. Notice how it keeps the thinnest part of its body directly facing the other owl.

I could be wrong though.

I agree, I see it as imitation of a predator for intimidation.

I don't think so, usually intimidation attempts have the animal try to look bigger, like when it fanned it's wings out before. This time it does everything possible to become skinnier even turning is body and "pointing" is wing to reduce its profile. Sharp, angular lines say aggression to us but I don't think that's as universal in nature as the size changes are.

To add to this, the reason for the different transformations is because of the secondary owls' sizes. The barn owl is similar in size or perhaps smaller to our star, so it gets an intimidation attempt. The second encounter is a larger owl, so it gets a camouflage attempt.

All I see is a brilliant attempt to look like dracula.

That moment at 1:42 is scary AF.

http://i.imgur.com/0zHzHEe.gif

I think the slide whistle makes it less scary

TIL that owls think going from a large somewhat scary bird to looking like a dying cat-bird thing is intimidating.

The second transformation was an attempt a camouflage. It was trying to look like a branch.

If it's supposed to be a demon-possessed branch from hell, it succeded.

It would look a lot more convincing had it been actually sitting in a tree

Why do japanese shows all have these thumbnail in the corner showing people reactions?

Out of the insane shit you can find on Japanese shows, you picked "thumbnail reactions" as the question you wanted answered?

I was feeling soft today

Japan can probably fix that for you...

Why are reaction videos so popular on youtube?

So people know how to react. Mirror neurons allow us to empathize and replicate emotions that way. I think the US is only a few years away from a similar format.

Edit: damn autocorrect.

"THIS IS HOW YOU REACT TO CONTENT FELLOW CITIZEN" -GUY WHO'S NOT A ROBOT

Facecam. Already there, bud.

Didn't know the Japanese were incapable of reacting independent of others.

It's not limited to Japan. Ever seen a sitcom with a laugh track? Same idea, it's just audio instead of video.

IIRC it lets the viewer know the "correct" way to react to what they're seeing, kind of like how sitcoms in the US often have laugh tracks.

I've been scrolling through the comments looking for someone who appears Japanese to ask that question. I wonder are they random people in the audience or Japanese celebrities or ...?

I think they're hosts and celebrities.

Last answer I heard from a japanese redditor was that much of japanese TV has B list and down celebs giving reactions to everything...

also a lot of variety TV with those same people.

Exploit of the mirror neuron reaction. Pretty smart actually.

TLDR: Much like yawning, if you see someone act surprised or laugh, you too will act that way.

Transformation was cool but I had to sit through all those stupid Japanese to show sound effects and teasers.

I'd have done that if I knew how :(

words you want the link to appear as put it between [ ] brackets with no space after it, now put the link between a set of ( ) brackets

pause the youtube video where you want it to start at, and right click on the picture, select the 'copy url at current time' option.

edited for clarity a bit.

TIL... Thankyou for explaining this.

slowly lowers pitchfork

Is it possible to do on the mobile app?

No, but you can use http://youtubetime.com on your mobile browser, just put in the YouTube URL and time.

You can also just add it to the url yourself by typing "&t=#" where # is the second count that you want to skip to. The format "XmYs" is also supported where X is minutes and Y is seconds.

Examples:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KcCsVDzDhik&t=185

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KcCsVDzDhik&t=3m5s

Also works with "h" for hours, too:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qrx1vyvtRLY&t=3h2m23s

IDK, never used the mobile app, but if you can click on those links on the mobile then yes i think it would work on mobile too.

IDK about the time thing on the youtube app, you may just have to write the link out the old way with &t=#m#s or whatever at the end of the youtbe link.

I don't know about the browser. I only use the app. Only discovered Reddit around a year ago so I'm still working stuff out.

A couple of months ago I tried affixing the time data to mobile link and it didn't work.

The links malkvn posted are mobile youtu.be links. You just have to add ?t=Xs or ?t=YmXs where X is seconds and Y is minutes.

Huh, they were. I didn't pay much attention and just copied the first video stopped at the apropriate spot. though I just copied and pasted the link from youtubes 'copy url at current time' so it returned the mobile link too.

Now that I check again, that feature does give out mobile links. I guess it's more of a short url rather than a mobile link.

Which part? The court URL at current time bit? I'm not sure, but if you want to post a link you can by starting to type the comment/post and above the keyboard there is a little link icon, click it and enter the link and the name of the link and you're done.

Was this feature added while I was asleep or have I been presented with my own interweb-ignorance once again?

You're not alone by a long shot

no comment

Lol you playin'

That side eyes lol

I have learned to mute the volume for most Japanese videos - Helps a lot to be able to appreciate the video itself - although the writing plastered all over isn't helpful :(

That was hilarious and too cute! Owls definitely became cooler in my book.

Stay away! I'm a fucking cat!

Owly uses "clawed demon imitation" its Highly effective

Someone's gotta make a gif of that zoom in on slanted-eyes.

I'm so glad to see a YouTube video linked instead of another gif. It's always nice to hear the content to the video I'm watching.

Shame I only know English though.

English title, Spanish description, Japanese voice, and African owl. Good stuff

This was kinda hard to watch after just waking up at 7 am, lol

The Imperial March was a nice touch...lol!

The first owl to transform is clearly on reddit, as he has been told countless times here, the best way to establish dominance is to make unflinching eye contact in the most awkward of times.

the best way to establish dominance is to make unflinching eye contact in the most awkward of times.

Its the extreme dilation that is so hard to master though.

Damn youtube subtitles are frustrating, I had colours changed a while ago but recently it decided to switch it for me, so now I have white text in a bit darker white boarder..

I've seen that episode of Pokemon

best transformation

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lempFOOCutM

This isn't even my final form!

Not looking like food is an excellent survival strategy. Sometimes you go with "too big to mess with" other times you just look like not food (like a branch, etc.)

How did they get the rights to "the Imperial March" for this?

Pretty good video but man what an annoying delivery format. Laugh track, text effects, reaction block, additional sound effects and writing everywhere.

Yep, welcome to Japanese TV. After few years of watching it i sorta stopped noticing all of that stuff =)

Malefestio from monster hunter x(generations) makes so much more sense now.

I downvoted you because of the quality of the video

Owltobots, roll out!

Owlptimus prime.

Came here to say this, fucking transformer owl from hell.

Looks more like Buffy needs to slay it to me.

Owls In Diguiiiiiiissseeee!!!

The owls are not what they seem.

Holy shit! I literally just said that to myself and then I saw your comment. Lol

I'm literally watching this with Transformers sound in my head. o_O

That was my initial reaction before opening the comments.

https://i.imgur.com/vD0vrbY.gifv

You can practically HEAR the morphing sounds.

More like an animorph!

I'll see myself out now.

Rob-hoots in disguise?

Look how calm she is

Ahahaha, fuck, I laughed like a maniac at that video! I'm pretty sure my co-workers think I'm deranged.

lol, why do I always see Vietnam War pics in these

Vietnam flashbacks

I con't believe you've done this.

Gave it the all clear after a thorough ocular pat down

Someone's taking stuff from his library.

Subtle ATLA reference.

Nooice

Not so subtle K&P reference. Noice

That episode was terrifying.

He's gonna sink the damn library into the afterlife when he finds out who it is.

Just finished rewatching the complete show (every episode) and now I'm moving on to Korra. Bright back so many memories and so much nostalgia

That animation was some of the most disturbing I have ever seen. It might have helped that I'm petrified of birds.

You can go in if you explain how the radio works.

Assuming direct control.

This hurts you.

I password recovered my account just to upvote this. Mass Effect 2 was a wonderful game.

6 points, 15 minutes ago

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/u/ActJustly, redditor for 17 minutes

Yeah nah

Also no verified email badge, even if your account wasn't only 17 minutes old, you can't recover the password without a verified email.

Sherlock Batman over here.

you know it. I'm beginning to think he doesn't even have a reddit account!

Excuse me for my inaccuracy.

My old account was named Nested. I never verified my email address and eventually forgot the password. Because I never verified my email address, I could not recover said password.

Fast forward to now: I really liked Darkstrategy's comment and that I liked it so much I got back on Reddit to tell him I liked it. Instead of recounting the long and irrelevant story about my lost account, I simply say that I recovered an account to be able to upvote him.

"I password recovered my account"
5 words, not true

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"I made an account"
4 words, True

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yeah ok bud

EDIT: for fucks sake /u/nested doesn't even exist

Yeah, but you didn't have to lie about it. Literally no one cares how theatrical your situation could've been.

Who the fuck cares

Sorry lad, I've got important things to do. We'll speak another time.

"Entering all-range mode"

Owl has to give an ocular patdown first

Did he clear him?

Don't party just yet.

Cocky little freaks!

WHO ARE YOU GUYS?!

Enemy shield analyzed!

You'll never defeat ANDROOOOOOOOSS!!

What's wrong? Is that it?

Youuuur're very lucky!!

Andross's enemy is my enemy!

Here come the little hyenas now!

Peppy, long time no see

Owl is before and after the eight switches...

So can someone explain what it's actually doing? It looks angry or it just trying to make a face to scare things off or something?

It is doing an ocular patdown

hoothoot used mean look.

You a Zoologist or something?

Pokeologist

Hoothoot can't learn Mean Look?

I'm not qualified at all but I'd say it's changing the orientation of its feathers to pick up on sound. Owl faces are flat and round to act as a sort of radar dish to detect small noises. Therefore it wants to increase its surface area as much as possible.

This owl flattens its feathers to look slimmer when feeling threatened by an enemy much bigger than itself. This way it resembles a tree branch and can hide in the trees.

Likewise, when the owl knows that it can take its enemy down, it puffens its feathers to look bigger. I guess the owl in the gif hasn't figured out yet whether it's time to shrink or poof up.

Look up "Transformer Owl" on Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rqt0OziQhx8, it's in Japanese but you'll get the gist. It's pretty hilarious actually.

It's scanning you to determine your weak points.

Locking S-foils in attack position.

Know why I hate Reddit? Because even when I get into a thread at 7 in the damn morning someone always beats me to it.

One of the few benefits of working the graveyard shift.

Soft fluffball turns evil, yikes

congratulations, your hoot hoot has evolved into a noctowl

Northern white-faced owl :3

It's my favorite owl because of its transforming abilities, especially its evil owl form.

Second favorite: Southern white-faced owl. For the same reasons.

first and only thing I thought of:

http://www.johnny-five.com/images/sc/scenes/evilsaint.jpg

Johnny 5 is alive!

man, is that movie old.

Came here for short circuit reference

Exactly what I thought of too!

"Baaaaaaaad humans"

Owl-cular pat-down.

Ocular patdown.

I'm saying I did an ocular assessment of the situation, garnered that he was not a security risk, and I cleared him for passage.

Oh you cleared him?

points at talons

"You have 10 seconds to comply"

More like "possible food detected"

I gave him an eye patch: http://i.imgur.com/zLpniII.gifv

Beast mode activated

Marshawn Lynch coming out of retirement - Confirmed. Heard it here first, folks.

Who...Whooo.....WHoooooooooooooo the fuck are you?

Reactor online, sensors online, weapons online.

All systems nominal.

It's all in the eyes. 【•】v【•】

(.) (.) I know right ? ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)

This reminds me of the robots from "Short Circuit".

Activate Battle Owl!

Superb!

Reminds of the thing the vampires did in Buffy.

This isn't even my final form!

PUT DOWN YOUR WEAPON. YOU HAVE TWENTY SECONDS TO COMPLY.

How is this r/aww material, this is nightmare fuel.

Definitely r/Superbowl material

Considering I have a huntsman in my apartment that has high fived me twice... This is pretty cute.

I thought this was /r/creepy when I saw it.

You would, because /r/creepy is /r/im12andthisisscary.

Seriously, how is this in any way remotely creepy?

Hey Ole, ummm, i dont know how to tell you this , but. Uh. i ate all your Halloween candy. Are you mad at me?

Ron Swanson spirit animal.

Love how his eyebrow feathers go up like an angry cartoon character

Owls are the sentry turrets of nature

Did you get all that?

} No

Yes

The owls are not what they seem!

Lock S-foils in attack position

Lock S-foils into attack position.

Dammit, I should have checked before I posted. Sorry and enjoy the points

Oh, what a cute little... oh! (Backs away)

Lock S-foils in attack position.

That was my reaction to Ann Coulter's tweet, too, buddy.

What the actual fuck.

I'm high and I watched this about 20 times

I can be yuor angle, or yuor devil

This is my final form, Join me in the owl games in 1 month.

How are owls so much like cats

It's amazing how expressive it seems even though it barely does anything .

A definite skill to have for a parent..!

How I look when someone takes the last french fry.

Owlmon, digivolve to Murdermon!

I think it just evolved.

Owlcular pat down.

"I have not yet reached my final form"

Say hello to Mr Angry Eyes! Arrrrrggghh

I love these owls, especially their "I will kill you and your children" expression.

That's what hallucinations kind of look like when you take psychedelic drugs, that smooth morphing.

The owls are not what they seem

His eyes are hypnotizing...

Lock S-Foils in attack position

Our connection to the animal world is so closer than most people realize... body language is the universal language. Yes you can talk to animals... tis true I say! Long live animal human relations, whooo hoo

went from cute to fuck no babbby real quick

That's not even his final form!

It's like he's an old man blowing on his mustache

That's one hell of an ocular pat down

Would you like to hear that again?

Yes/I would

http://m.imgur.com/gallery/f9pDnOk

This is what happens when Link didn't get all that for the fifth time.

X-Gene identified. Halt Mutant!

Here's a video where someone explains why the Northern White-Faced Owl does this.

This isn't even my final form!!! *queue two full episodes of screaming

Did not pass the ocular pat down

It put on its angry eyes.

From adorable to angry in a second, awesome!

Owls must be the most underrated badass creatures of all time

"Threat level: Imminent. Combat mode: Initiated. Weapon systems: Online."

Sounds like my buddy Rampart

Assault mode activated.

... commencing owlimination protocol

The look your mom gives you when the teacher tells her you been fucking up

Somebody add in a transformer noise

That's a typical "You stoned, aren't you?" look from my SO. I literally just need to smoke one puff of a joint, and my SO can smell that and turns into fucking death-owl.

What's their deal? That sounds like a real bummer.

Its like gremlin OH JESUS

DangerFloof!

He morphs like Dyoxis* from Pokémon.

Anger mode activated

Aaaaaand I just shit myself

I just spontaneously whispered "what the fuck"

What kind of owl is that?

Activating offensive mode.

My cat makes this face when she gets super excited when playing.

TERMINATION MODE ENGAGED

I like to think he was just told they've decided to get a cat.

even his moustache gets more threatening.

That was beautiful to watch.

Sorry babe, I watched the last episode without you

(gomu gomu no) gear third !

Reverse it to make it /r/aww

This is badass.

When you catch someone talking shit

Disengage all range mode!

Fixed socket threat

God damn it. I'm about to have to scroll through hours of dialog aren't I?

And people wonder why I'm afraid of birds

Hahaha WHAT DID YOU JUST SAY?!?

Nuclear launch detected.

'Lock S-Foils in attack postion'

That actually gave me an idwa for some Sentai armor I'm going to be working on...

Assuming Control

Like a furry xenomorph

engaging rage face

Bipolar owl

It like watching a Wessen transform.

Switching to hunter killer mod

Hoo hoot! Link... Look up here! It appears that the time has finally come for you to start your adventure! You will encounter many hardships ahead.

Inquisitive to FUCK YOU in two seconds.

Lock S-foils in attack position.

And this, ladies and gents, is how a reaction gif is born.

NUCLEAR LAUNCH DETECTED

You fool.... this isn't even my final form

I make the same face whenever someone double-dips

That's fucking scary

wow cool

I watched a documentary on owls recently and it was one of the most interesting docs I've seen. Such evolved creatures molded to perfectly fit their environments

"The owls are not what they seem"

Read this in the Protoss voice from Starcraft

"Sentry Mode Activated"

attack mode engaged

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^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^0.5704

What is this?

What was it shown to make it change it's gaze? a snake or something?

owls always creep me out..

Someone's been playing too much Macross.

Attack Mode Initiated.

Now THAT'S an ocular patdown.

/r/superbowl

Lemme put on my angry eyes!

I am scared

Autobot turns Decepticon in 1.6

Stunning

"Say Hello to: MR ANGRY EYES!"

That is creepy haha

This is me at work when they tell me to start from curious...

Owls are the best.

That's the face I make when playing Starcraft after hearing "Nuclear Launch Detected."

Attack mode activated

/r/superbowl

He is cathulu !!!

Just imagine walking in on 20 or so feather-balls. "Awwwww", and then they all activate attack mode. Out out out

This is a bit terrifying.

Enemy spotted!

He's rockin that Mr. Feeny mustache from Boy Meets World. Respect.

I can't help but think of Mac with his Ocular Pat Down goggles

That japanese show was so scary. don't know why everyone was laughing

ScOWL.

It's like when an AI realizes the biggest threat to humans is humans.

Thats Friggin awesome

Mean muggin

Reminds me of when Johnny 5 (Short Circuit) goes into "Attack Mode".

Calm down Vanoss...

More info here? Its common for animals to puff up and look bigger but what's his angle here?

Lock S-Feathers in attack formation.

Its over 9000!!!!

MRW I wake up tomorrow & my chosen candidate didn't win.

Badass.

That's badass

Diabeetus DETECTED!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pkdry54C0oU

Ribbit

Oo is he see his enemy ?

Ocular patdown

Is this from Tokyo's Owl Cafe? I think I recognize that owl..........

So evil so quickly

Autobots transform!!!

Like that episode of Avatar where the Owl in that library flipped it on em.. That shit was lightweight scary.

This isn't even my final form!

Frieza owl

So scawwy.

He probably just saw a small child who could use a long-winded explanation about something completely obvious.

If it was trying to be a branch then why was it moving? I think it was trying to be a falcon. Only Mr. Owl knows what he was trying to do lol.

That's some gundam shit, face morphs when going in to battle mode.

\m/

It reminds me of the Arwing from Star Fox

robots in disguise

God I love owls. They're so damn creepy.

Oh no you don't!

This reminds me of my brother Clay, who is dumb.

I imagine that this is what my kids visualize when I say "don't make me use my angry face"!"

Wilford Brimley owl, transform!

I love when something is such a repost that my reddit app already knows I've looked at the link, even though it's a "new" post.

Holy shit its face totally morphs from curious to threatening

That's gorgeous. Those eyes.. I want to make it mine. I want to hug it so badly.

Lock S foils in attack positions

Who gilded this repost?

Cth-who-lu

Possible *treat detected

It's tentacle beak terrifies me

Reminds me of a portal turret.

what a skills they have.

This isn't even its final form!

CHARGING EYE LASERS

Do they do this to.. appear bigger or something? Like a sort of intimidation?

It looks like the second one tried to turn into the God of destruction from that DragonBall Z movie ha

Ocular patdown.

Kek is destroying him! Of course its pissed!

This isn't even my final form.

OMG, it's the ASUS Strix Owl!!!!! Awesome!

Can someone explain what the owl is actually doing?

It went from cute to deadly cute real quick

That would totally work on me.

/u/hallucinates_owls what do you see here?

Me when I'm teaching a lesson and I catch a kid on their phone.

He went from regular Owl to Owl Super Sayian 2.

This some animorphs shit

"Hey, Laser-Lips! Yo mamma was a snowblower!"

Thats the most accurate depiction of what 2cb lets you see.

Omg it's a pokemon

LOL, not sure why, but he reminds me of an Ood at the end of the gif

Me over the course of tonight.

shit just got real

Owls dont have threats. They are murder birds.

Nuclear launch detected.

.

Went beastmode

This thing looks like what the world looks like on acid.

Target, acquired.

Weak spot, located.

Battle positions, assumed.

Waiting for optimum moment of attack.

Rowlet is evolving!

I absolutely LOVE owls! They are beautiful and amazing creatures!

What did you say?

“Who became president?“

Matt Smith regenerating into Peter Capaldi

Looks like it's sprunger detects something valuable. (Futerama)

And that threat is...Diabeetus.