Great horned owls eat mammals such as rodents, rabbits and smaller owls. They are a major predator of the barred owl and will regularly eat skunks. They have been known to take animals as large as woodchucks or geese. They will prey on small pets.he most commonly heard call of the great horned owl is a hoot that has been described as hoo hoooo hoo hoo that may be repeated several times. Click on the link under the picture for an example. You often hear a nearby owl calling to be answered by a more distant owl.
Mary Wollstonecraft, 1759-1797, novelist and radical polemicist for the inherent rights of woman and of man, was the first wife of William Godwin and the mother of Mary Shelley. She died from complications in her daughter's birth. Although Mary Shelley never knew her mother, she held her in the deepest veneration. There was probably no better student of Mary Wollstonecraft's writings than she, for she read them again and again and, when she traveled to Italy in 1818, seems to have carried something close to a complete set for reference.
They married in late 1816, after the suicide of Percy Shelley's first wife, Harriet. In 1816, the couple famously spent a summer with Lord Byron, John William Polidori, and Claire Clairmont near Geneva, Switzerland, where Mary conceived the idea for her novel Frankenstein.