#whereas if the dude!owl dies the kiddos sometime survive

[queenlua]

man why is every single hawk we see in tellius a dude. it's like intsys didn't even realize lady!hawks are BIGGER and thus would CLEARLY be the warriors in any kind of arrangement where they're forming armies and such—

#okay i mean technically there's a case you could make here right #well. in the case of owls actually. #owl dudes are FAMOUSLY bad at taking care of their offspring #like they're coequal parents it's a 50/50 effort but #if the lady!owl dies in a tragic accident the owl kiddos always die #whereas if the dude!owl dies the kiddos sometime survive #mom just works a double and hunts twice as hard. #whereas the dude!owl just seems to not get?? like?? how to actually feed the kiddos?? on his own?? #idk fascinating bit i saw a talk about owls a while ago #so you could make a case of ok the dudes are weaker but we send them off to fight because otherwise all the kids fucking die #except owls are notoriously the dum-dums of the raptor world #i'm pretty sure they are actual coequal parents in the case of hawks? #though i'm not able to find literature on it at the moment so #anyway. don't mind me. just going fully nuts over tellius #(i want nailah-but-she's-a-hawk man)