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Burrowing Owls will often run into their burrows when they feel threatened.
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To scare off their predators (which include Horned Owls, hawks, badgers, foxes, and some domestic pets), they make a hissing sound or rattling noise to imitate rattlesnakes, whose burrows they often repurpose.
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