The barn owl (Tyto alba) is an extremely adept predator, with the ability to find prey in the pitch black using just sound! They turn their head towards the source of the sound, using their asymmetrically placed ears to pinpoint the prey’s exact location.

Art by @folktails_and_feathers

[Edited by Isabelle McDonald]

Reference:

Grothe, B. (2018). How the Barn Owl Computes Auditory Space. Trends in Neurosciences, 41(3), 115–117. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tins.2018.01.004