Also, not owls, but the US did try to use bats for warfare in Project X-Ray as an alternative to the Manhattan Project (CW, awful animal cruelty): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bat_bomb
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Von Bloeker, his assistant, Jack Couffer, and Ozro Wiswell, a scientist, self-described “bat lovers”,[4]: 8 noted that it did not occur to them to question the “morality or the ecological consequences of sacrificing a few million bats”.[4]: 9
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In one incident, the Carlsbad Army Airfield Auxiliary Air Base (32°15′39″N 104°13′45″W) near Carlsbad, New Mexico, was set on fire on 15 May 1943, when armed bats were accidentally released.[9] The bats roosted under a fuel tank and incinerated the test range.
Owls are too principled to work for AmeriKKKa though.
Also, not owls, but the US did try to use bats for warfare in Project X-Ray as an alternative to the Manhattan Project (CW, awful animal cruelty): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bat_bomb
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Von Bloeker, his assistant, Jack Couffer, and Ozro Wiswell, a scientist, self-described “bat lovers”,[4]: 8 noted that it did not occur to them to question the “morality or the ecological consequences of sacrificing a few million bats”.[4]: 9
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In one incident, the Carlsbad Army Airfield Auxiliary Air Base (32°15′39″N 104°13′45″W) near Carlsbad, New Mexico, was set on fire on 15 May 1943, when armed bats were accidentally released.[9] The bats roosted under a fuel tank and incinerated the test range.