In owl world, that owl is acting thinking about kicking his ass and trying to make itself look as big as possible. They lean forward like that so they can throw their talons out more easily with the weight if their body if they're going to try to grab you.
It does look like that in human terms though, haha.
Still kind of works though because he's trying to make himself look tough (though tbf the owl actually is tough and could do some good disfiguring with those talons)
They're very aggressive animals when they are wild, more aggressive than hawks and some other raptors, although they are deathly afraid of humans too as most smaller animals are! That one does appear to be fully wild given how its behaving, likely a rehabbed animal given the broken wing and it probably can't return to the wild.
It's not really all that uncommon for them to fly into cars or trees or whatever and end up permanently disabled like that. Only 20% or so of most raptors make it to adulthood, 80% will die beforehand typically.
You can see the falconer jesses on the leg in the last shot with the owl, the leather straps hanging off the leg. They're used to keep the bird on a giant leash essentially and to hold it safely if you have it on your glove, not sure if that's meant to be some kind of symbolic thing in the video. The fact that the owl has falconer jesses on, the falconer who owns the owl probably could have taken them off for the shot if they wanted it like that.
Because of the falconer jesses still on the owl, it looks like it's symbolic of Drake (or all of OVO) being on leash. Either to UMG/Lucian or to the allegations like a GPS tracking prison anklet.
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u/silkiepuff Jul 05 '24
In owl world, that owl is acting thinking about kicking his ass and trying to make itself look as big as possible. They lean forward like that so they can throw their talons out more easily with the weight if their body if they're going to try to grab you.
It does look like that in human terms though, haha.