Baby owls sleep on their stomachs because their heads are too heavy.

“Out of sight, out of mind” is a real phenomenon – just think of all the times you would have forgotten about your clothes if it weren’t for a doorbell notifying you that it’s time to change clothes. Pretty sure it’s not just me.

Well, naturally, we all have an attention span as it is, so who is going to keep their focus on things happening far, far away from view? Because fascinating things are happening that we would otherwise never know about, like how baby owls sleep.

As many have just discovered, baby owls have to sleep on their stomachs because their heads are too heavy to sleep perched, as you would expect birds to sleep.

When they are tucked in, they just lie down, lying down, napping like a teenager.

But it’s also a question that’s come up before: Come on, this is the Internet, of course, people have wondered about the strangest things before, so why not the sleeping habits of juvenile owls?

And it turns out that there is evidence to corroborate it.

“I went to a bird show once and saw an owl doing that in the sun on a hot day,” one woman shared on Twitter. “I panicked and cried to the man. I thought one of his birds had died in the heat… he had to wake the poor thing up just to convince me he was okay.”

Including this Ph.D., who studied saws and noticed that their babies sleep in small puddles due to their oversized heads.

The  National Audubon Society  also confirmed this with a report from a birder who observed a young owl sleeping and noticed another important detail:

“Keeping their claws tightly attached to a branch, the owlets lie face down, turn their heads to one side and fall asleep. Their naps are short, and when they are asleep, they don’t like to be woken up, not even to be fed.”