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The Eurasian Eagle-Owl is one of the largest species of owls in the world. They can reach up to 75cm in length and a wingspan of almost two meters. It's plummage is brown with a lot of black stripes and dots. The disk-shaped face typical for owls is not as prominent as in other owl species but they have very distinct orange eyes and long ear tufts. They live in preferrably rocky and open areas but also in forests from all over Europe, including southeastern Europe and Scandinavia, to the Himalayas, China and Korea.

Eurasian Eagle-Owls prefer small mammals like mice, rats and rabbits as their diet but they've also been seen feeding on insects, snakes, frogs, other birds and fish, which they catch by diving similar to ospreys. The owls have their nests in protected cliff ledges, crevices or rarely treeholes and the ground. The female lays one to four eggs at the end of winter and incubates them over a span of a month while the male provides for her and the chicks once they hatch. The young will either leave the nest voluntarily or be kicked out by their parents by November. Though their numbers have declined in the early 20th century due to various reasons such as the use of pesticides and other poisons as well as diseases ravaging their main food sources, they have since recovered and are considered to be of least concern.

In the Kemono Friends anime, the Eurasian Eagle-Owl appears as the assistant to the Professor at the library where they help friends by answering their questions or helping in other ways in exchange for food. In the old nexon game, she was saved by the professor and became her assistant. They're both very full of themselves and condescending to the other friends, though they are surprisingly respectful towards our previous friend of the week, suzaku.

The Eurasian Eagle-Owl is easily scared and they're known to abandon their eggs or young if they're disturbed by hikers. Despite this, they also nest in some European cities like Helsinki where an owl invaded the pitch during a qualifier match for the European Football Championship between Finland and Belgium and sat on one of the goals for a few minutes, interrupting the match and causing the audience to chant "Huuhkajat", the species' Finnish name. The Finnish national football team has been nicknamed that ever since.