From Nicole Seward
Check out those murder mittens as this Great horned owl takes off! Their talons are about 1.5 inches long with a grip strength of 200-500 pounds per square inch. That’s six times stronger than a handshake from a bodybuilder! Aren’t you glad you aren’t owl prey?
Lol now I see. It’s still impressive to me though. It’s still a 3 pound bird spine busting mammals and birds 4 or 5 times their size. I feel that’s like me bending a big motorcycle in half.
And from the other post I linked, them doing their dive-bomb and hiring the target makes those talons snap closed like a mousetrap where they don’t even need to think about it.
Yeap, I think that’s the main point, despite our squabblings, hier und da.
I.e.-- raptors and carnivores of the feline-variety have an almost magical-ability to OWN their prey, so to speak, physics be damned.